Thilo Horstmann

Current

• Founder and Managing Director at spider labs GmbH

Past

• Managing Director at SinnerSchrader
• Director at Bertelsmann AG
• Consultant at SAP AG

• Research Assistant at Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft
• Research Fellow at Xerox Research Centre Europe
• Research Fellow at World Wide Web Consortium

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Education

• Fraunhofer Gesellschaft, Universität Koblenz
• Technische Universität Kaiserslautern

Connections

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Industry

Internet

Websites

• My Website

Thilo Horstmann’s Experience

• Founder and Managing Director

  spider labs GmbH

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)

  February 2007 — Present (2 years 6 months)

  spider labs develops cutting edge internet software products and services. With a strong focus on innovation spider labs will provide amazing services around Web 2.0 and Mobile Computing.

• Managing Director

  SinnerSchrader

  (Public Company; 51-200 employees; szz; Internet industry)

  January 2003 — January 2007 (4 years 1 month)

  Managing Director SinnerSchrader Neue Informatik GmbH (from Apr 2004), before Head of Business Unit Communication & Technology

• Director

  Bertelsmann AG

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Internet industry)

  September 2000 — December 2002 (2 years 4 months)

  director positions at the comparison shopping portal DealTime Europe (now a service of shopping.com) and Snoopstar, a peer-to-peer media distribution platform.

• Consultant

  SAP AG

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  October 1997 — August 2000 (2 years 11 months)

• Research Assistant

  Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft

  (Non-Profit; 1001-5000 employees; Research industry)

  January 1993 — December 1997 (5 years)

  At that time the research organisation was called "German National Research Center for Information Technology (GMD)" which has been integrated in Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft in 2000/2001.

• Research Fellow

  Xerox Research Centre Europe

  (Public Company; 51-200 employees; Research industry)

  February 1997 — September 1997 (8 months)

• Research Fellow

  World Wide Web Consortium

  (Non-Profit; 201-500 employees; Research industry)

  November 1995 — June 1996 (8 months)

Thilo Horstmann’s Education

• Fraunhofer Gesellschaft, Universität Koblenz

  Ph.D. , Computer Science , 1997 — 1999

  Dissertation titled "Supporting virtual working groups using replicated groupware systems". The thesis was part of my work on the BSCW groupware system at Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft (http://www.fit.fraunhofer.de).

• Technische Universität Kaiserslautern

  Master's of Computer Science , Computer Science, Physics , 1985 — 1992

  Master's Thesis titled "Distributed Truth Maintenance" written at the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI).

Additional Information

Thilo Horstmann’s Websites:

• My Website

Thilo Horstmann’s Interests:

Computer, Sailing

Thilo Horstmann’s Honors:

Fellow of the W3C Consortium

European Software Innovation Award for the BSCW Shared Workspace system in 1996.

Award for 'outstanding scientific research' by German Association of the Automotive Industry (VDA) in 1993.

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