Daniel Mattes (AUT)

Daniel, who is called the “Bill Gates of the Alps” in some parts, is a serial Internet entrepreneur and business angel living in Silicon Valley, USA and Austria, Europe. He was the chairman and co-founder of VoIP company Jajah.com which was acquired 2009 for $207 million by Telefonica and is member of the board of the venture fund Qino Flagship AG.

His newest startup jumio.com, online and mobile payment solutions, is getting a lot of attraction although it is still in stealth mode. Eduardo Saverin, co-founder of Facebook, has taken the lead in the startup’s fresh round of financing.

As celebrated expert in database technology, Daniel has published three books including SQL – Usage in Extra- and Internet, Databases with Delphi and Database development in the Internet. He has also been published many times in tech related publications