We love our work
Meet FoodTracks
We’re on a mission to reduce inefficiencies in bakeries.
Dr. Tobias Pfaff
Managing Director
Product Development
Ivan Bestvina
Computer Scientist
Data Scientist
Kemal Tekce
Physicist
Data Scientist
We love our work
We’re on a mission to reduce inefficiencies in bakeries.
Managing Director
Product Development
Computer Scientist
Data Scientist
Physicist
Data Scientist
Geschäftsführer
Vertrieb und Marketing
„Komplexe Dinge einfach zu erklären und Menschen für Technologie zu begeistern, das treibt mich an.“
Michael Prinzhorn ist verantwortlich für Vertrieb und Marketing bei FoodTracks. Er studierte Volkswirtschaftslehre an der Westfälischen Wilhelms-Universität Münster und war als Energiemarktanalyst sowie im Software-Vertrieb tätig. Mit FoodTracks wandelt Michael Prinzhorn auf den Spuren seines Großvaters, der einen Bäckereibetrieb in Hannover hatte.
Managing Director
Product Development
“To me personally, entrepreneurial activities only make sense if there is also a social good aspect.”
Tobias Pfaff is a Co-Founder and Co-CEO of FoodTracks. He studied business administration (Diplom) and did his doctorate in economics at the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität in Münster. He is a lecturer for econometrics at the Hochschule Osnabrück since 2014.
Tobias Pfaff is also founder of DataLook. Since July 2014, the website datalook.io is used by a global community of, amongst others, data scientists, who are interested in data driven, non-profit projects.
Managing Director
Sales & Marketing
“Happy customers are the basis of a successful company.”
Eyüp Aramaz is a Co-Founder and Co-CEO of FoodTracks. He studied SMB management (M.A.) at the Fachhochschule des Mittelstands in Bielefeld alongside his work at the Central Police Direction of Lower Saxony, since 2014 and completed it in 2017. He previously established the business development, distribution and online marketing sectors of several startups.
Since 2015, Eyüp Aramaz organizes the Fuckup Nights OWL, a globally known event format, during which founders and entrepreneurs talk about their biggest failures and what they learned from them.
Computer Scientist
Data Scientist
“Our goal is to turn data into actionable insights for bakeries.”
Ivan Bestvina is a computer and data scientist at FoodTracks. He studied Computer science at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing in Zagreb. Since 2014 he has been continuously working on data science projects for both the industry and the academia, ranging from machine learning applications in bioinformatics and election predictions, to fraud detection and bakery sales forecasting. Apart from data science, he is highly interested in complex network, probability, and graph theory.
Computer Scientist
Software Developer
“As our possibilities for accumulating and evaluating information continue to grow, so does our responsibility in dealing with the insights gained in this way.”
Gerald Pape is a geoinformatician and software developer at FoodTracks. He studied Geoinformatics (Master of Science) at the University of Westphalia. Between 2015 and 2016 he worked as a software engineer for a medium-sized software company focusing on geo-IT solutions. Most recently, Gerald Pape was a research assistant at the Institute for Geoinformatics at the University of Münster, where he was responsible for the technical development and support of a project for the implementation of stationary and mobile sensor stations.
Physicist
Data Scientist
“Data science and machine learning have great potential to become a game changer. We use this potential to help bakeries and reduce food waste.”
Kemal Tekce is a physicist and data scientist at FoodTracks. He studied physics at the Westfälische-Wilhelms University in Münster. During his master thesis he dealt intensively with the development and implementation of algorithms for numerical simulations and achieved the best grade (1.0) for his findings. He has been fascinated by data science and machine learning since 2017 and has been developing his knowledge in these areas ever since.
Physicists
Data Scientist
“Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.” (Albert Einstein)
Jakob de Maeyer is a physicist and data scientist at FoodTracks. He studied physics at Georg-August University in Goettingen. In 2015 he was a part of the Google Summer of Code and worked on the implementation of an add-on framework created with the well-known programming language Python. After that he worked for a global data analysis company and worked as a lead developer for 3.5 years.