About Mobilizy

Mobilizy – the company behind Wikitude – is an early pioneer and one of the leading innovators in mobile augmented reality with in-house development of location-based services and AR experiences for smart-phones.

Mobilizy is a leading innovator in mobile Augmented Reality. Our flagship product is the Wikitude World Browser, which is the first available mobile Augmented Reality browser worldwide. Point of interests can be searched by current position and viewed on a map, list, and on an Augmented Reality (AR) camera view. Wikitude is available for Android, iPhone, and Nokia 5th and 3rd edition.

These are the people who work at Mobilizy:
		Mobile, Travel and Technology have been the focus of Andy’s career in both MNC as well as start-up environments for more than 10 years. Born and raised in Germany, Andy has lived in the USA for 7 years and in Asia Pacific more than 5 years while based in Singapore. He has held multiple senior business development and marketing positions with AOL Time Warner, Lonely Planet and Electronic Arts. Andy holds an MBA and a Bachelor of Science degree in International Business Management from Hawaii Pacific University.
Andy Gstoll CEO
		Philipp studied computer science and history at the University of Salzburg and the Bowling Green State University, Ohio. After working for various companies including KPMG Consulting and Sony DADC he founded Mobilizy GmbH, a software startup specializing in Augmented Reality software for smartphones. He has a special interest in Mexican and Thai food.
Philipp Breuss-Schneeweis Founder, R&D
		Martin studied both Computer Science and Mathematics at the University of Salzburg, Austria and the Victoria University of Technology in Melbourne, Australia. He got to know Philipp Breuss during his time at Sony DADC. Martin was fascinated by the possibilities of Augmented Reality and joined Philipp to develop Wikitude. He is now CTO at Mobilizy. Martin loves Tennis and hiking in the wilderness and sometimes has found himself in companionship with bears and snakes …
Martin Lechner CTO
Erik Bovee VP of Business Development		Erik has held senior operational and strategic roles since 1999 in a number of telecoms and internet companies, both startups & publicly listed companies. Erik held senior positions with Digital Mobility, and Dynamical Systems Research – an Ericsson design centre, pioneer of the world’s first WAP SDK, and one of the world’s first commercial Web-to-phone, corporate SMS messaging services, Airmail(tm), launched in 1995. Subsequently, Erik was European Managing Director of eMeta Corporation, a provider of access control and digital licensing software for online publishers and financial services. Erik was also responsible for VeriSign’s Mobile Enterprise Services (VMES), a global, mobile messaging aggregation service, in addition to Enterprise Paging, a multi-protocol mediation service for wireless carriers, including AT&T and Sprint in North America. Erik held P&L responsibility for a 20 million USD book of business, and drove average annualized top-line revenue growth of 50%. Erik holds a doctorate from the University of Oxford.
		Andreas studied applied computer science in Salzburg, Austria. After 4 instructive years as a software-development freelancer for Sony DADC he joined Mobilizy in the very first days. He is now Product Manager of Wikitude but also responsible for innovations at Mobilizy. He loves snowboarding and and being challenged as a handball goal-keeper.
Andreas Hauser Chief Innovation Officer, Product Manager Wikitude
		Nicola studied Geo-Information Science in Rottenmann, Austria. After nearly 3 years of gathering experiences in software-developement and project management at Real Networks, she joined Mobilizy in July 2009 and likes managing projects and all geo-relevant areas this job involves. She loves skiing and spending time with friends.
Nicola Radacher Technical Project Manager White Label; Software Development Android
		Markus is responsible for the content eco system and search technology for the Wikitude world browser including Wikitude.me. He is also founder and CTO of Netociety. Prior to Mobilizy, Markus worked for Sony in Austria and Germany, where he was leading software architect of the music download and streaming server platforms Connect Europe and StreamMan (Vodafone music). Markus studied computer science at the University of Salzburg and as an Austrian he loves to ski in winter.
Markus Tripp System Architect
		Wolfgang studied Mobile Computing at the University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria. With a strong interest in the Symbian platform he joined Mobilizy to help develop the Wikitude Client for Nokia smartphones. Wolfgang is interested in everything mobile and loves to mountainbike and snowboard in the Austrian alps.
Wolfgang Damm Software Engineer
		In 2005 Chris started at Sony DADC as a freelancer. Later he joined the parking access team at the renowned company Skidata AG. There he worked on the distributed installation (deployment) and the manual paystation of the parking system. After 4 years at Skidata he was looking for a new challenge and joined Mobilizy as an iPhone software developer. Chris is finishing his master thesis at the department of Computer Science (University of Salzburg). He has a wide range of interests and soft skills including media, sound engineering, design & animation, project management and user experience design. In his spare time he plays concerts with his band and loves to do any kind of sports.
Christian Ebner Software Engineer
		Andreas is studying MultiMediaTechnology at the University of Applied Sciences in Salzburg. As a Mac-Developer he joined Mobilizy to port the Wikitude World Browser to the iPhone. Andreas plays euphonium in a brass band and loves to ski off-piste in Salzburg’s skiing areas.
Andreas Alfarè Software Engineering
		Sebastian currently studies Mobile Computing at the University of Applied Sciences in Hagenberg, Upper Austria. He is very interested in augmented reality applications and joined Mobilizy to develop a new and pioneering type of navigation system. In his leisure time, he loves to do sports or simply relax.…
Sebastian Höbarth Software Engineering