Career
He worked as an Executive in the United States, France, Germany and Japan. Until December 2006, he held the position as the Executive VP of International Operations for Spark Networks. Spark Networks was formerly known as Matchnet.com (Matchnetcom was the parent company of JDate, Americansingles, Christiansingles, Blacksinglesconnection)
Until 2004, Matchnet was only traded on Germany"s Frankfurt Stock Exchange.
That year, he reincorporated the company in the United States and offered its stock on the United States American Experience National Market.
In 2001, he held the position of chief of Matchnet"s European operations, and was quoted in the International Herald Tribune commenting on the fact that Bloomberg News wrongly reported Matchnet was being bought out and changing its focus to biotechnology. Elmar started his career at Microsoft in Germany before moving on to be General Motors of Yves Saint Laurent and Kenzo in Japan.
He is currently a minority owner of GFS AG a small, private, wealth management company based in Germany and Switzerland but, he works for Siemens in Japan as the head of Supply Chain Management Business Development. Elmar received his Master of Business Administration degree (Finance) from European Institute of Business Administration (Institut Européen d'Administration des Affaires) and his Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science from University of Washington where he graduated with honors.
