Management

Dr. Ricco Deutscher is the managing director of SOPERA. Before joining SOPERA, Ricco Deutscher was an architecture and technology expert at McKinsey and in charge of international architecture projects. In this capacity he developed the fields of SOA and Open Source at McKinsey. In addition, Ricco Deutscher was also co-founder and president of flatfox AG, a provider of email marketing technologies. He began his professional career as a software architect at SAP AG in Walldorf. Dr. Ricco Deutscher studied physics at the Universities of Leipzig and Moscow, and received a Doctorate in Theoretical Physics from Hanover.

Harald Weimer is Managing Director and CEO of SOPERA. As Vice President at Bea Systems, Weimer acquired solid middleware and SOA know-how and has more than 20 years of experience in sales of software solutions. Before joining SOPERA, he worked for three years as Director, Central and Eastern Europe of Iona. Weimer had previously been Executive Board Member for Sales and Marketing at USU-Openshop AG, a company listed on the New Market with over 300 employees. He started his career in sales at Hewlett-Packard.