Team

The Creative Heads of seekda

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DI Alexander Wahler, CEO

DI Alexander Wahler is in charge of Business Development and Finances. He has been an entrepreneur in the IT sector for more than ten years; e. g. as a co-founder of the IT service provider Hanival Internet Services GmbH and the scientific association STI International (Semantic Technology Institute International). Alexander Wahler has graduated in electrical engineering at the University of Technology Vienna, where he has been developing a tourism platform as an academic assistant.

 

Dipl.-Wi.-Inform. (FH) Holger Lausen, CTO

Dipl.-Wi.-Inform. (FH) Holger Lausen is responsible for the development and operation of seekda’s technical infrastructure. After graduating in business informatics at the University of Flensburg, Germany, Holger Lausen worked as a developer for Oracle Germany. From 2003 to 2008 he has been a project manager at the University of Innsbruck, where he worked on national and international research projects concerning Web Services and Semantics. He has contributed to various standardization panels and composed the W3C specification on the subject of Semantic annotation of Web Services (SAWSDL). By now, Holger Lausen is focusing on the practical application of current research results from this area.

 

DI Klaus Niederacher

DI Klaus Niederacher is head of Business Development and Procurement in seekda. He has been a company founder and CEO for more than ten years (most recently Hanival Internet Services GmbH, where he was in charge of Operation and Business Development). With his business consultancy NWECO Consulting KG he gives companies advice with the conception, bidding and implementation of complex IT projects. After his graduation in computer engineering at the Technical University of Vienna, he gathered experience in the IT industry at VAMED and Siemens. When working as a research associate, he contributed to the development of an online information system for tourism in the rural area.

 

Mag. Bernhard Rieder

Mag. Bernhard Rieder is in charge of Marketing and Sales in seekda. He studied business administration in Innsbruck and has more than five years of experience as a company founder and leader (ad agency Rieder, MCA Management Consulting Agency KG, both based in Innsbruck). Mag. Bernhard Rieder has also gained experience in e-Tourism; i. e. as a freelancer for the Institute for business informatics and e-Tourism in Innsbruck, as a cooperator in the trans-European e-Tourism research project "Harmonise", as a conceptioner and project manager of the bench marketing concept "Destinometer" and as development leader of etCurriculum at the e-Tourism Competence Center Austria.

 

Dr. Michal Zaremba, COO

Dr. Michal Zaremba is coordinator of operations and responsible for innovation and technology transfer. Moreover, he contributes his technical expertise to the seekda architecture. Michal Zaremba has taken a doctoral degree at the National University of Ireland and a Master at the Wroclaw University of Technology in Poland. Recently, he has been working as a team leader at the Semantic Technology Institute (STI) Innsbruck, where he focussed his research activities on Software Architectures for Semantic Web Services. Michal Zaremba has been a chair of and contributor to various international technical and standardization committees.