Management and Co-Founders

Dipl. Ing. Alexander Wahler

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seekda OG , Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder
Alexander Wahler is responsible for marketing and finances. He has a degree in electrical engineering of the Vienna University of Technolgy, where he worked as a scientific assistant. He has many years of experience in the development of database internet solutions (e.g. Sony-Intra-news, Porsche-Austria). He has been Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Hanival Internet Services GmbH and STI International (Semantic Technology Institute International).

Dipl. Wi-Inf. Holger Lausen

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seekda OG , Chief Technical Officer and Co-Founder
Holger Lausen is responsible for the development and operation of seekda's technical infrastructure. He studied commercial information technology in Flensburg, Germany. Since 2003 he was working at the University Innsbruck, STI-Innsbruck as a researcher and project manager in several national and international projects. Holger Lausen's PhD thesis is on the modeling and matchmaking of Semantic Web Services.

Thomas Haselwanter

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seekda OG , Chief Software Architect and Co-Founder
Thomas Haselwanter is responsible for the oversight of seekda's software strategy. He is directing the development of the company's next generation Web Services platform. Before joining seekda Thomas was a researcher at STI Innsbruck, participating in several research groups in the area of Semantic Web and Web Services.

Michal Zaremba

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seekda OG , Chief Research Officer and Co-Founder
Michal's current role at seekda is to coordinate its research activities. Additionally he is managing the online marketing to drive important targeted traffic to seekda website. Michal Zaremba received his PhD at the University of Ireland, Galway. At present he is working as cluster leader at the Digital Enterprise Research Institute (DERI). His research includes the work as software architect for semantic systems, as well as chairing international technical committees. His scientific focus is dedicated to semantic Web Services, e-business, enterprise application integration and business process management.

Univ.- Prof. Dr. Dieter Fensel

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seekda OG , Co-Founder
Prof. Dr. Fensel received his Doctoral degree in Economic Science, from the University of Karlsruhe. In 1998 he received his Habilitation in Applied Computer Science. Throughout his doctoral and post-doctoral career, Prof. Dr. Fensel has held positions at the University of Karlsruhe (AIFB), the University of Amsterdam (UvA), the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU) and National University of Ireland, Galway (NUIG). In 2002, he took a chair at the Institute for Computer Science, Leopold Franzens University of Innsbruck, Austria. His current research interests are around the usage of semantics in 21st century computer science.