Company profile
Visual real-time communication with Netviewer
Netviewer is Europe’s leading producer and provider of web conferencing solutions. Founded in Karlsruhe, Germany, in 2001, the company currently employs more than 220 people. Netviewer enables Internet users to share their screen display live, so as to jointly edit texts, calculations, graphics and other documents. Visual real-time communication over the Internet enables businesses to reduce their travel times and costs, as well as to improve productivity. Moreover, users are actively contributing towards the protection of the climate and the natural environment.
These advantages are being enjoyed by more than 18,000 corporations and mid-size companies from 55 different countries, including Bayer, BMW, SAP, Siemens, Deutsche Post, Deutsche Telekom and Swisscom.
The entire spectrum of web collaboration
based on “Software-as-a-Service”
Netviewer is one of the fastest-growing IT and high-tech companies in Europe and attaches parti¬cular importance to the user-friendliness and depen¬dable security of its products. Netviewer Meet and Netviewer Support regularly win accolades from the media – most recently winning the Gold Award from TopTenReviews in a major comparison test covering all the leading providers concerned. National and international certification, also in conformity with common criteria, bears witness to Netviewer’s high stan¬dard of security.
As a SaaS provider, Netviewer hosts millions of web conferences, webinars and support sessions each year through its data centers.
A global market with soaring growth rates
With a team of highly qualified experts from more than 20 different nations, Netviewer continually meets and masters the challenges posed by one of the IT industry’s most dynamic growth markets purpo¬sefully upgrading its leading position in the market. Web collaboration is already a global multi-billion-dollar market with industry analysts predicting more than 20 percent growth annually in the coming years.
As market penetration steadily broadens, more and more small firms are enjoying the advantages of web conferencing technology with webinars becoming an important component of marketing and sales strategies.
Management
Robert Gratzl – Chief Financial Officer
As Chief Financial Officer at Netviewer, Robert Gratzl is responsible for finance, controlling, and human resources. In these roles he can draw on extensive experience as CFO at publicly-traded WEB.DE AG and later Combots AG. Earlier in his career, Robert Gratzl was employed for ten years at consulting firm Arthur Andersen in Stuttgart, where he focused on consulting services for medium-sized companies. In 1998 he became the partner in charge of this area.
Robert Gratzl completed his degree in Business Administration at Rosenheim University of Applied Sciences. He earned certifications as Tax Adviser and Certified Public Accountant in 1994 and 1996, respectively.
Jörg Mayer – Chief Sales Officer
Jörg Mayer is an executive-level manager in charge of product management and sales and marketing. He joined Netviewer in late 2008 with an extensive background in sales and product management. Before joining Netviewer he was Head of Portal Pay Products at WEB.DE, where he was responsible for digital products. He was previously director of business sales at Telefónica in southern Germany. He began his career as an account manager at TelDaFax and was promoted to territory manager a short time later.
As a former competitive athlete, Jörg Mayer remains to this day an avid runner.
Lars Thomas – Chief Technology Officer
Lars Thomas, Chief Technology Officer of Netviewer, is responsible for product development and functionality. His areas of responsibility include software as a service (SaaS), our on-premise products, and integration solutions at large customers. He brings to the table extensive experience in product development as a software developer, project manager, and general manager. Lars Thomas values agility in the product development process. He looks back on years of experience as a trainer and coach for agile product development, particularly through utilization of the Scrum framework.
Lars Thomas gained the technical foundation of his skill set with a degree in electrical engineering from Universität Karlsruhe.
