Veteran, serial founder - prev. co-founding Last.FM (exit to CBS $320m in 2007) and CTO of Jumio.com (>$1bn valuation, raised $150m in March 2020). Spent 6 years as a C++ and Java developer for investment banks and financial services in London including automatic stock trading / HFT, at UBS, Credit Suisse and Unicredit. Now working on bringing the engagement on TV to the mobile device by "snapping" a TV screen and getting relevant, contextual information and actions on the mobile. Think of "Shazam for TV". Focusing on sports and sports betting on TV as the first vertical to introduce this innovative offline to online bridge. Started programming at the age of 15, graduated at a programming high school in 1995 in Vienna, Austria and later got a MSc in computer science at Birkbeck College, London in 2003.