Wolf Garbe

Current

CEO at FAROO Limited
Founder at FAROO GmbH

Past

Senior Information Technology System Architect at OEVOnline
Co-founder, CEO, CTO at BINGOOO AG
Senior Consultant, Project manager at o.telo.

Consultant at Eutelis Consult
Software Architect and Network Consultant at Siemens-Nixdorf

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Education

Universität Stuttgart
Technische Universität Dresden
Politechnika Wroclawska

Technische Universität Dresden

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Connections

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Wolf Garbe’s Experience

CEO

FAROO Limited

(Internet industry)

2008 — Present (1 year )

Peer-to-peer Web Search Engine & Social search network.
FAROO was honored as finalist of the prestigious TechCrunch40 conference in 2007.
Founder

FAROO GmbH

(Internet industry)

2007 — Present (2 years )

Peer-to-peer Web Search Engine & Social search network.
FAROO was honored as finalist of the prestigious TechCrunch40 conference in 2007.
Senior Information Technology System Architect

OEVOnline

(Internet industry)

2002 — 2008 (6 years )

Integration of online consumer portals, point of sales
systems and back end customer data management
systems in a multi-tier and multi-tenancy
architecture.
Co-founder, CEO, CTO

BINGOOO AG

(Internet industry)

1999 — 2002 (3 years )

Co-founder of BINGOO, a startup with 20 employees.
Agent based, consumer focused federated search technology.
Multiple award winning meta search engine with 2 million installations
Senior Consultant, Project manager

o.telo.

(Telecommunications industry)

1996 — 1999 (3 years )

Senior consultant for rural telecommunication networks, responsible for cooperation concepts, contract and partner management.
Senior Management Consultant, responsible for business development, planning and project management, Campus telecommunication networks, Facility Management and Telelearning.
Senior project manager of fixed line projects for key account customers.
Consultant

Eutelis Consult

(Management Consulting industry)

1995 — 1996 (1 year )

EUTELIS CONSULT, a consulting company for
telecommunication and value added services,
a joint venture of France Telecom and German Telekom.
Consultant for alternative network operators during
the telecommunication market liberalization in Germany.
Software Architect and Network Consultant

Siemens-Nixdorf

(Public Company; si; Industrial Automation industry)

1992 — 1995 (3 years )

Software Architect for large scale distributed information systems for Governmental Authorities and consultant for Local Area Networks.

Wolf Garbe’s Education

Universität Stuttgart

Modelling & simulation 1990 — 1991

Post Graduate study stay at Faculty Electrical Engineering, Institute for Information Transmission and Data Processing.
Development of Visual SimNet, a modelling and simulation framework, based on stochastic Petri nets.
Technische Universität Dresden

Dr-Ing. , Computer science , 1988 — 1991

PhD study at Faculty of Computer Science.
Title of thesis: Architecture evaluation and optimization of file servers by modeling and simulation with stochastic Petri nets.
Academic degree: Doktoringenieur Dr.Ing. (similar to PhD)
Predicate: magna cum laude
Politechnika Wroclawska

Information technology 1987 — 1988

Study stay at Wroclaw University of Technology
Technische Universität Dresden

Dipl.-Ing. , Information technology , 1983 — 1988

Master study of Computer Science.
Academic degree: Diplomingenieur (similar to MSc)
Predicate: Very Good

Additional Information

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Wolf Garbe’s Interests:

Search, peer-to-peer, social search, semantic web, wisdom of crowds, attention economy, long tail, personalization, behavioral targeting, ranking, distributed computing, grid computing