Executive Team

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Dr. Michael Geisser

Managing Director Market Development

Michael has ample experience working for different finance and IT companies in Europe. During his last assignment with SAP AG he was managing a program of strategic IT initiatives, one of them being the introduction of virtual events to this company. In order to develop a leading virtual event provider, he left SAP in 2009 to found ubivent. Here, he is mainly responsible for the development of new markets.

Dr. Thomas Butter

Managing Director Research and Development

Thomas is an experienced software developer. He actively participated in multiple open source projects, and has conducted extensive research in novel software development tools and methods. He was working in different roles on various software projects, the last one being the technical manager for several virtual event projects at SAP AG. Dissatisfied by the existing platforms he quit his job in early 2009 and started his own virtual event company. At ubivent, he is responsible for research and development.

Andi Geisser

Head of Design

Andi studied IT and telecommunications in Germany and Finland. Since then he worked in different creative jobs such as photographer or manager of a media lab. Recently he has been acting as graphical director for an advertising agency. He currently supports ubivent as Head of Design. In this role, he is responsible for the graphical conception of the platform and any other design issue.

Dr. Jens Arndt

Managing Director Operations and Finance

Jens worked on different IT projects for mutliple companies in the US and Germany. On his last job at Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG, the worldwide market leader for offset printing presses, Jens led a team responsible for defining and enforcing a company-wide Business Intelligence strategy. In 2009 he quit this job to found ubivent. Here, he is responsible for project management, internal operations and finance.

News

Recently, our virtual event platform was the place to be for job seekers in Greece! Kariera, the leading on-line recruitment site in Greece and member of the CareerBuilder network, was the host of a virtual career fair on our ubivent platform. More than 5,000 visitors from all across Greece have participated in this virtual career fair, and exhibiting companies have been well known global leaders like Kraft Foods, Vodafone, L’Oréal, Ernst & Young, Microsoft, or Ericsson. Read more about our first greek project here.