Management director change at anybill: Jan Sobota becomes a member of the management board

Introduction

• Co-founder & CTO Tobias Gubo is leaving the digital receipt start-up anybill at his own request
• Jan Sobota becomes Managing Director alongside Lea Frank

munich, 19.09.2024 — Jan Sobota, COO/CFO at anybill, has also been Managing Director of anybill since July and is thus taking over the management duties of Co-Founder & CTO Tobias Gubo. Together with Lea Frank, Co-Founder & CEO, Sobota is thus responsible for managing the company. This decision follows the withdrawal of Tobias Gubo, Co-Founder & CTO, who left the company at his own request.

Tobias Gubo has been responsible for the technology team since its founding in December 2019 and laid the foundations for the company's scalable infrastructures and innovations. We would like to thank him very much for his extraordinary work and wish him every success on his future journey.

Jan Sobota (42) has been responsible for Finance and Operations as COO/CFO at anybill since January 2022 and has primarily helped shape the areas of sales, partnerships and strategy and thus the growth and development of the start-up. With more than 15 years of experience in the digital economy, including as head of digital affairs, strategy consultant, corporate investor and founder of a corporate start-up, Sobota brings extensive expertise to the role. (More info about”Jan Sobota becomes COO/CFO at anybill“). Together with Lea Frank, he will shape the next steps of the corporate strategy and continue to drive anybill's growth forward.

”We have already achieved a lot with anybill, but we still have enormous potential and I am looking forward to establishing digital receipts in Europe together with Lea Frank and the team and giving retailers more opportunities to activate and retain their customers at the point of sale”, commented Jan Sobota.

Lea Frank, Co-Founder & CEO of anybill, adds: “With Jan Sobota at our side as Managing Director, we are in an excellent position to achieve our growth goals. We can already look back on a very successful collaboration over the last two years. I am looking forward to the future together and would like to thank Tobias Gubo for the successful collaboration. ”

In addition to the personnel change, anybill has secured millions of euros in further financing in order to accelerate international growth in particular and to optimize customer loyalty and marketing potential for retail companies at the point of sale with the solution of digital receipts. Numerous well-known companies in nine European countries already rely on anybill's solutions, including almost all medium-sized filling stations, such as Deutsche Tamoil GmbH — HEM, Westfalen AG, Classic gas stations and more, as well as fashion brands such as AWG Allgemeine Warenvertriebs-GmbH and the furniture discounter POCO or retail companies such as GLOBUS Markthallen or Miles & More. These companies rely on anybill technology to issue legally compliant digital documents in a matter of seconds, create valuable customer contact points and also make maximum use of their customer loyalty and marketing potential.

About anybill

anybill aims to deliver a digital receipt for every payment — in merchant apps, wallets, banking and payment apps or without an application — wherever digital receipts are expected. The company is closing a relevant gap in the (payment) infrastructure and connecting stakeholders in the retail ecosystem in a large-scale partner network, which has recently included Payback. Retailers rely on anybill's technology to operate more cost-effectively and sustainably and, in particular, to establish valuable marketing touchpoints as part of their omni-channel strategy. anybill was founded in December 2019 by Lea Frank and Tobias Gubo and has locations in Munich and Regensburg.

Press contact:

Simon Rieger
Team Lead Brand Marketing, PR & Communications
simon.rieger@anybill.de /+49 170 7645 294

Stimmen zum Wechsel

„Wir haben mit anybill schon viel erreicht, aber noch enormes Potential und ich freue mich darauf, gemeinsam mit Lea Frank und dem Team digitale Kassenbons in Europa zu etablieren und Händlern mehr Möglichkeiten zur Aktivierung und Bindung ihrer Kunden am Point of Sale zu eröffnen“, kommentiert Jan Sobota.

Lea Frank, Co-Founder & CEO von anybill, fügt hinzu: „Mit Jan Sobota an unserer Seite als Managing Director sind wir hervorragend aufgestellt, um unsere Wachstumsziele zu erreichen. Wir blicken bereits auf eine sehr erfolgreiche Zusammenarbeit innerhalb der letzten zwei Jahre zurück. Ich freue mich auf die gemeinsame Zukunft und bedanke mich bei Tobias Gubo für die erfolgreiche Zusammenarbeit.“

Weitere Finanzierung gesichert

Neben der personellen Veränderung hat sich anybill eine weitere Finanzierung in Millionenhöhe gesichert, um vor allem das internationale Wachstum zu beschleunigen und mit der Lösung digitaler Kassenbons auch die Kundenbindung und das Marketingpotential für Handelsunternehmen am Point of Sale zu optimieren. Zahlreiche namhafte Unternehmen in neun europäischen Ländern vertrauen bereits auf die Lösungen von anybill, darunter fast der gesamte Tankstellen-Mittelstand, wie Deutsche Tamoil GmbH – HEM, Westfalen AG, Classic-Tankstellen uvm. sowie Fashionbrands wie AWG Allgemeine Warenvertriebs-GmbH sowie der Möbel-Discounter POCO oder Einzelhandelsunternehmen wie GLOBUS Markthallen oder Miles & More. Diese Unternehmen setzen auf die Technologie von anybill, um in Sekundenschnelle rechtskonforme digitale Belege auszustellen, wertvolle Kundenkontaktpunkte zu schaffen und auch ihre Kundenbindung sowie ihr Marketingpotenzial maximal auszuschöpfen.

Über anybill

anybill verfolgt das Ziel, zu jeder Zahlung einen digitalen Kassenbon zu liefern – in Händler-Apps, Wallets, Banking- und Payment-Apps oder ohne Applikation – dort wo digitale Belege erwartet werden. Das Unternehmen schliesst eine relevante Lücke in der (Payment-) Infrastruktur und verbindet die Stakeholder des Retail Ökosystems in einem großflächigen Partner-Netzwerk, zu dem seit Kurzem auch Payback gehört. Händler vertrauen auf die Technologie von anybill, um kosteneffizienter und nachhaltiger zu agieren und insbesondere wertvolle Marketing-Touchpoints als Teil der Omni-Channel Strategie zu etablieren. anybill wurde im Dezember 2019 von Lea Frank und Tobias Gubo gegründet und hat Standorte in München und Regensburg.

Pressekontakt

Simon Rieger
Team Lead Brand Marketing, PR & Communications
simon.rieger@anybill.de / +49 170 7645 294