Tobias Jaeger

Tobias Jaeger is the editor of Vertical Observer, which he also built. He works as a fractional and interim chief financial officer and deal adviser for IP-heavy growth companies in media and entertainment, MedTech and life sciences, cyber and defence, and technology, and has held C-level finance roles for more than 15 years.

In media, he has been chief financial officer of a creative IP studio in London and of a film production company in Los Angeles, and interim CFO of a video-on-demand platform in Cologne. Before that he was managing partner and global M&A lead at a boutique M&A firm in London.

He created and hosts Media CFO, a podcast launched in April 2019 about finance, dealmaking and business affairs in the entertainment industry, and curates the Global Entertainment Index, a benchmark of listed media and entertainment companies. He teaches executive education on operational risk, resilience and cybersecurity at the Amsterdam Institute of Finance and the New York Institute of Finance. He holds a BSc in International Business from Maastricht University and is a native speaker of English and German.