Dr. Harald R Raetzsch

Board member (VR) and investor driving the growth of companies focusing on Internet of Things and Industry 4.0 applications. Providing hands on business development, product management, positioning and strategic consulting, specializing on projects that face challenges like tight schedule, extremely constraint budgets or herterogeneous social structures.

Product Development

Business Development North America

Supporting high tech companies to successfully grow research & development activities and transfer their Research Results to Market. Strategy and technology consulting for companies that deal with discontinuities and need to adapt to new business and technology requirements under challenging socio-economic and time constraints or expand their business into new geographical territories.

Coordinate and restructure all software development activities in the Nagra Public Access Group of Kudelski, i.e. AccessArena, Skidata, PolyRight, and TicketCorner. Introduce new software engineering methodologies, metrics and tools for the group. Act as CTO of Skidata AG, the leader in access control systems. Renew the entire software and hardware product portfolio to move from a vertical nische oriented system vendor to a modern, horizontal (SaaS) product architecture (called VINAYA).

Responsible to build a product organization within Celeris to produce, support and sell a mission critical, integrated security service management platform (SECOPIA). SECOPIA is an integrated security service management platform that supports service providers or large corporations in all the activities required to use and offer professional managed security services.

Founded the TTA-Group (www.ttagroup.org) for TTTech Computertechnik AG, Vienna. In December 2001 elected to Vice Chairman of the TTA-Group by all founding members, i.e. AUDI, Citroen/Peugeot, Delphi Automotive Systems, EADS Airbus Industries, Honeywell, TTTech, VW. TTA-Group’s mission is to establish TTTech’s time-triggered deterministic TTP communication technology as a cross industry standard for all "by wire" automotive and aerospace applications for safe real-time communication.

Company IPO in April 2000 (€ 50m successfully raised). Develop and evangelize a new product strategy. Implement a new organizational structure for development and software production units in update.com, including quality assurance, software testing, release management and web based shipping facilities. Acquisition of two new software products in the US, including all contract negotiations in close cooperation with update.com’s US legal counsel to establish these major contracts (total >$7m).

Create software products to establish CSE Systems as a software vendor with a successful track record and significant market share. WorkFlow® registered as a trademark for CSE Systems in 1993. CSE/WorkFlow® has received the award “Volkswirtschaftlich wertvolle Erfindung” by the Republic of Austria on March 24, 1995 and several industry awards (Innovationspreise). CSE/WorkFlow® gained substantial market share in all major European Telekoms and set a standard in public administration (DOMEA®).

Responsible for all software and hardware engineers in Munich and Kongsberg, Norway plus system integration in Cupertino, CA / USA. The DIGITAL MAPPING systems used pattern recognition methods to scan mapping information and convert / interpret graphics to a computer internal format usable for navigation and flight simulation (like Google Earth today).

Thesis "Development of a Data Structure for Storage and Manipulation of Digital, Technical Drawings". Rigorosum: June 13th, 1985 O. Univ. Prof. Dr. Hermann Maurer O. Univ. Prof. Dr. Reinhard Posch and Univ. Doz. Dr. Franz Leberl. Graduation June 20th, 1985 with A ("mit Auszeichnung").

Master (Dipl.Ing.), Technical Mathematics / Information Technology October 1975 – June 1981 Thesis: The Simulation of Queuing Networks Graduation in June 1981 Activities and Societies: Several semesters at juridical faculty (no degrees, just interested)