Patrick Meisberger, chief operating officer of T-Venture, has been at Germany-based telecoms company Deutsche Telekom’s corporate venturing unit for the past nine years. Before this he worked at Allianz Venture Partners, a venture unit of the Germany-based insurer. He was previously an executive at Germany-based bank Deutsche Bank, UK-based accountancy firm PricewaterhouseCoopers. He studied business administration and management at Cologne University and also secured an MBA at US-based Eastern Illinois University.