About
Our goal: every packaging deal on autopilot
one.five is a packaging intelligence company in Germany. We built Quartermaster because the decisions that determine whether a pack succeeds are still taken on incomplete information, and because that is a solvable problem.
Packaging is one of the few industries where a decision worth millions is routinely taken on a data sheet describing a flat sheet of material. The result is an industry that discovers its failures late, in trials and on production lines, after the money has been spent. Brand owners carry the cost as delayed launches and missed targets; suppliers carry it as development work aimed at the wrong customers.
Our view is that the missing layer is not more material science, but a shared definition of what success means for a given pack. If the requirements that actually determine deployment are written down, grounded in test data and agreed by both sides, then a material can be judged against them honestly, before a trial rather than after one. That is what Quartermaster does: it grounds the brief, profiles the materials, ranks one against the other, and predicts which matches will convert into a pack that runs.
We work for the entire packaging value chain and believe change can only be realised if the problem is addressed holistically. We also believe this problem has drastically slowed down the introduction and deployment of an innovative generation of new materials that are better suited to deliver on sustainability and circularity just as much as performance and price. Ultimately, we believe we can accelerate the packaging industry's transformation into a cleaner, more circular, and sustainable market.
Our Team
Claire Gusko
Co-Founder
Works with our technical and product teams to constantly improve how Quartermaster works and leads company strategy with Martin.
Martin Weber
Co-Founder
Works with our sales and commercial teams to bring Quartermaster to more brand owner and material supplier customers, while leading company strategy with Claire.
Lucio D'Andrea
VP of Research & Development
Leads our research & development team, which includes our engineers and the scientists in our data generation team: the human experts behind Quartermaster.
Gregorio Ossola
VP of Corporate Solutions
Leads our sales efforts with our largest brand owner customers, making sure the most challenging and innovative product briefs are listed in our system.
Phillip Esser
Head of Business Development
Leads our sales efforts with material supplier customers, as well as brand owners - bringing Quartermaster to the industry, one deal at a time.
Camilla Ferrari
Senior Data Scientist
Built our proprietary Findex methodology, our conversion algorithm, and the data tools Quartermaster uses to generate its recommendations.
Praise Ekpenisi
Junior Data Engineer
Built the systems that connect all of our data sources - the valuable connections between the information coming from materials, machines, and the market.
Paula Garcia
Engineering Lead
Leads the team building the Quartermaster application - everything you see, and everything you don't see.
Mohib Ahmadzai
Full-Stack Software Developer
Built Quartermaster's back-end architecture and makes sure our systems are compliant with our highest data protection standards.
Siegfried Fürtauer
Team Lead Packaging Dev
Works closely with brand owners on their most ambitious development briefs by scouting new, cutting-edge technologies.
Arda Yildirim
Senior Material Scientist
Works closely with material supplier customers to understand where their products perform well and where performance gaps should be addressed by new product development.
Panya Wongpanit
Senior Material Scientist
Works closely with converter customers - material suppliers who turn film and board into finished packs - to understand where their products perform well and where performance gaps should be addressed by new product development.
Imke de Grahl
Lab Operations Lead
Leads the Data Generation Team: develops new SOPs, enforces our internal testing standards, and ensures all data we generate is comparable and accurate.
Elisabet Jurado
Junior Scientist
Works in the Data Generation Team: collects and analyses experimental data, ensuring Quartermaster's insights are accurate and actionable.
Gokul Prabaharan
Junior Scientist
Works in the Data Generation Team: collects and analyses experimental data, ensuring Quartermaster's insights are accurate and actionable.
Eduardo Rodríguez Verdú
Pilot & Scale-up Lead
Leads our data collection effort around new coating formulations, processing techniques, and potential production challenges.
Lillian Huang
Sales Operations
Manages the sales processes that collect vital brand owner data that feeds Quartermaster.
Johannes Weber
Sales Development
Works with brand owners to ground briefs, run trials, and scout packaging materials.
Terry Shortland
Sales Development
Works with brand owners to ground briefs, run trials, and scout packaging materials.
Wiebke Loos
HR & Back Office Manager
Runs our entire back office operations and manages employee well-being as well.
Anna-Lena Becker
Office Manager
Runs our physical office space, lab space, and employee accommodation (what we call "The Yard").
Investors
one.five is backed by Dr. Hans Riegel Holding (Haribo), Speedinvest, Planet A, Green Generation Fund, Climentum Capital and Revent - investors who share the view that packaging transformation is a generational problem worth solving.
one.five GmbH is registered with the Hamburg Commercial Register under number HRB 164675 and is based in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. Full company details appear in the Imprint.