Management & Team
Christian Grötsch, founder and managing director of dotSource began his career at the auXion multinational auction house. After he successfully launched online auction systems in five different countries, he moved to Intershop Communications AG in 2000, where he worked in the areas of core product development and presales consulting. In 2006, Christian Grötsch and Christian Malik founded the social commerce agency dotSource that has since grown to over 50 employees. With his company, he managed the 2007 launch of the social commerce project Preisbock.de that is an independent subsidiary of the most popular live shopping vendor in German-speaking countries. Christian Grötsch earned a Masters Degree in Industrial Engineering and Management at the Steinbeis University at Berlin.
Christian Malik began his career at the auXion multinational online auction house as a software developer in the e-commerce division. There he met his future business partner Christian Grötsch. He came to Intershop Communications AG in 2000 where he was responsible for technical customer support for the complete Enfinity product palette. In this position, he served a key role in the successful implementation and realisation of Intershop projects. In 2006, he founded dotSource GmbH with Christian Grötsch and serves today as one of its two managing directors. At the beginning of 2008, Christian Malik began studies in business administration at the Steinbeis University at Berlin. In addition to very deep technical knowledge, another of his key traits is his thirst for continual personal development.
