Sebastian Heinzel

Current

CEO and founder at tripwolf
Advisory Board Member at Heinzel Group

Past

SVP Marketing & PR International at i5invest
US correspondent at profil magazine
journalist at profil magazine

journalist at Kurier

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Education

New York University
Universität Wien
Universidad Carlos III de Madrid

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Sebastian Heinzel’s Summary

For the last 1.5 years I have been running tripwolf.com, a social online travel guide. I started tripwolf in summer 2007 in New York with the help of incubator i5invest. Since March 2008 tripwolf has been incorporated in Vienna, Austria, with offices in New York and Budapest, Hungary.

From 2003 to 2007 I was writing for Austria's most renowned news magazine "profil" which is based in Vienna. I covered the Orange Revolution in Ukraine, the youth scene in Tehran and the hunt for General Mladic in Serbia, among others, and I did interviews with Samuel Huntington and Amartya Sen.

In April 2006 I moved to New York to work as US correspondent for "profil", also writing for "Die Zeit", "Spiegel Online" (Hamburg), "Tagesspiegel" (Berlin), "FACTS" (Zurich), "Kurier", "Fleisch", "Datum", ".copy" and "Indie" (Vienna).

I speak German, English and Spanish fluently and Italian not-so-fluently. I have travelled to over 60 countries on all continents.

Sebastian Heinzel’s Specialties:

new media, magazine publishing

Sebastian Heinzel’s Experience

CEO and founder

tripwolf

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)

March 2008 — Present (1 year 9 months)

tripwolf.com is the social travel guide and trip planner for you and your friends
Advisory Board Member

Heinzel Group

(Privately Held; 501-1000 employees; Paper & Forest Products industry)

March 2003 — Present (6 years 9 months)

Advisory Board Member at one of Central Europe's largest privately-held pulp and paper companies
SVP Marketing & PR International

i5invest

(Internet industry)

June 2007 — March 2008 (10 months)
US correspondent

profil magazine

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Writing and Editing industry)

April 2006 — May 2007 (1 year 2 months)
journalist

profil magazine

(Writing and Editing industry)

May 2003 — April 2006 (3 years )

Reporter/ Writer, Business Desk (April 2003 - June 2004)
Reporter/ Writer, Foreign Desk (July 2004 - April 2006)
journalist

Kurier

(Newspapers industry)

November 2000 — May 2001 (7 months)

Reporter, Business Desk

Sebastian Heinzel’s Education

New York University

Master , Publishing , 2007 — 2009
Universität Wien

Master of Social and Economic Sciences , Economics, Political Science , 1997 — 2005
Universidad Carlos III de Madrid

Economics 1999 — 2000