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Nicholas Thiede

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Co-Founder at ScaleUp Company South Africa
📍 City of Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa

Nicholas Thiede is a German entrepreneur with over 20 years of experience scaling businesses. As Co-Founder of ScaleUp Company South Africa, he coaches founders on growth, drawing on his background as a CEO/COO and a former strategy consultant at The Boston Consulting Group. He holds a Masters in Industrial Engineering & Management.

Based in Cape Town, Nicholas balances his professional life with personal interests in adventure travel, including surf and ski trips, which aligns with his advisory role at Luex. com. He is also an avid kite surfer and practices meditation to maintain a holistic balance between his strategic business mindset and personal development.

Unique fact: During his university years, Nicholas served as an assistant to the University President.

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Experience
27 Years
Current Role
Co-Founder
Job Level
Leadership
Location
City of Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa
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Scaling Businesses
As Co-Founder of ScaleUp Company, he implements proven methodologies to help leadership teams grow their businesses sustainably, focusing on people, strategy, execution, and cash.
Founder Mentorship
He is passionate about working directly with entrepreneurs to navigate growth challenges, avoid burnout, and build valuable, exitable companies.
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Career

Work history

2023
Co-Founder
ScaleUp Company South Africa
2020
Co-Founder
Forge42
2016 - 2023
Co-Founder
CloudRadar/RPort
2016 - 2022
Managing Director
PixelFaerie
2009 - 2022
Investor/Advisor/VIP Sales - Surf/Ski Adventure Travel
Luex.com
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Education
1992 - 1998
Master of Industrial Engineering & Mgmt. / Dipl. Wirtsch.-Ing.
RPTU Kaiserslautern-Landau
2015 - 2015
Leadership
EO Global Leadership Academy, Washington
1996 - 1996
Commerce/MBA-Program
Queen's University
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