Board member (VR) and investor driving the growth of companies focusing on Internet applications. Providing hands on business development, product management, positioning and strategic consulting. Specializing on projects that face tight schedule, constraint budgets or heterogeneous social structures. Special focus on the Industrial Internet of Things (IoT) / Industry 4.0.PROFESSIONAL STRENGTHSExperience in managing IT software and hardware companies and software / hardware research and development organizations in multi national corporations.Founding and profitably growing high-tech companies from start-up phase to significant sizeExperienced in merger & acquisitions, IPOs, fund raising.Skilled in providing clear direction and hands-on energetic leadership to organisations, focussed on creating and building software products for large enterprises, including sales (direct and partner channels), marketing, and professional services.Excellent skills in representing companies at board levels, investor and press relationships.10 years of in a large multi-national followed by a decade as a successful entrepreneur starting a software company from scratch and growing it to No. 3 in the Workflow Industry. Successful trade sale of the workflow company in 1999 followed by several management and board positions (VR, CTO, SVP) in companies participating in IPOs, trade sales, expand sales into new territories or perform reorganizations to achieve new levels of productivity and efficiency.Architect / Design / Implement high tech hardware and software product portfolios using cloud architectures since 1990. Focus on fog computing and the Internet of Things. (Re-) Building software factories and leading distributed software development projects (Europe, US, India) facing challenging quality, time and social constraints. Product positioning and branding, negotiation skills, European and US law, in- and outsourcing expertise.