Awards & Recognition
★Led Exasol to being named contender in Forrester Wave Cloud Data Warehouse Q4 2018
★Exasol recognized for world's fastest database in TPC-H Benchmark tests
Notable Facts
→Co-founder & CTO of Exasol, publicly traded database company (IPO 2020) with $67.6M market cap
→20+ year tenure at Exasol, joined as software developer in 2004, became CTO in 2014
→Led development of world's fastest in-memory analytics database competing with Oracle, Microsoft, IBM
→Company serves 200+ customers across 20+ countries including T-Mobile, Dell, Verizon, Adidas
→Published academic papers in database research and conference presentations
→Active thought leader writing about data mesh, hyperautomation, and database optimization
→Computer Science degree from University of Würzburg (1999-2003)
→38K Twitter followers with verified industry presence