Mr. Kennke works for MATERNA Information & Communications GmbH since 1997. In the business unit communications he is in charge of the distribution of Materna’s mobile services in the southwest of Germany. His product portfolio comprises MMS/SMS, gateway service, mobile payment applications, content platforms and content as such as well as unified messaging systems. Furthermore Mr. Kennke works in the training centre for Microsoft, Lotus, Novell and Veritas products.

Mr. Melcher teaches at the University of Applied Sciences Esslingen in communication technology, mobile communication and marketing. Before he worked for over 10 years in product marketing for measurement devices in the communication technology for the world’s second biggest company in this area. With this background he is familiar with most of the producers and distributors of these technologies.   Today Mr. Melcher is also head of the department information technology at the University of Applied Sciences in Esslingen, being in charge of 26 professors and 600 students. 

Mrs. Melchior is trained in business, commerce and psychology. She is managing director of ACit GmbH.  

From the beginning Mr. Schneider has been in charge of the online editorial department, a joint cooperation of the Stuttgarter Zeitung and the Stuttgarter Nachrichten. Apart from the presentation of newspaper content the team is also providing extensive online news and service databases. Before, Mr. Schneider worked for 15 years as a print editor, many years of which for the Stuttgarter Nachrichten. He nowadays is a guest lecturer at the University of Hohenheim, teaching online journalism.