The Business Hero

Nicole Junkermann is a German born and London-based entrepreneur and investor. She is the founder of NJF Holdings, which includes NJF Capital, NJF Private Equity, NJF Real Estate and The JJ Collection. As a business leader she is focused primarily on the crossover between the media and technology sectors. Nicole Junkermann is among a new group of well-connected, successful entrepreneurs. She believes that digital innovation and experimental technology will create breakthroughs in areas from medicine to education, and from retailing to premium content consumption. Nicole Junkermann career Junkermann began her business career as a co-founder of football gaming portal Winamax. Following its sale in 2001, she invested in newly-founded Infront Sports and Media, a sports media rights agency. Three of her early investments, Songza, Dollar Shave Club and RelatelQ, were acquired by Google, Unilever and Salesforce, respectively. Nicole Junkermann’s holdings and activities have included ...

When ground was broken in March 2017 for a new US$9 billion factory owned by a subsidiary of Foxconn Group, the event was witnessed by then Guangdong party secretary Hu Chunhua and Terry Gou Tai-ming, the Taiwanese billionaire who created Foxconn, the world’s largest assembler of Apple’s iPhones and tablets. The plant was hailed by local media as an example of Chinese efficiency in promoting investments that matter for the future and the country’s key role in the global value chain. The Southern Daily, an official Guangdong newspaper, reported that the project would be Guangzhou’s contribution to the “Made in China 2025” strategy and would help the city, and the province, move up the value chain. Now, after two years of construction in the Guangzhou suburb, the plant’s main structure is completed, and on a recent visit trucks were seen going in and out of a gated compound. Workers at the site said production lines were being shipped in and installed so the factory could start p...