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JEFF KATZ From early on Jeff has always been interested in electronics and computers. When he "grew up", Jeff became a serial entrepreneur, founding companies in a wide variety of industries, including security, finance, and IT. With his background in engineering, computer science, and business, Jeff is at once a forward-thinking technologist and a practical engineer. He is currently consulting a variety of clients through JK Ventures & Consulting UG with a focus on security, data-driven business models, and the internet of things. Get in touch At home in the lab or up on stage, Jeff has a wide range of experience at his disposal. He has personally developed consumer devices, cloud services, and hardware as well as spoken at conferences and events across the world. Jeff enjoys building and leading amazing teams; he's built and managed engineering teams up to 50 with seven-figure budgets, but especially likes to be future-oriented—anticipating opportunities and threats from emerging technologies such as pervasive computing, artificial intelligence, and blockchain. EXTERNAL RESOURCES GITHUB kraln LINKEDIN kraln TWITTER @kraln PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE JK VENTURES & CONSULTING GMBH FOUNDER OCTOBER 2018 - Consulting on a variety of topics, including: * Security Evaluation of IoT Device for Consumers * Prototyping of IoT Device in Construction Industry * Technical Due Dilligence of IoT Company in Construction Industry * VR Project in Automotive Industry * Production Consultation for IoT Logistics Company * Mentoring Startups in Logistics Industry * Mentoring Embedded Software Development -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MBITION MERCEDES-BENZ INNOVATION LAB SENIOR PRINCIPAL SYSTEMS ARCHITECT APRIL 2019 - JAN 2022 MBition GmbH is a 100% owned subsidiary of Daimler AG. By combining the spirit and flexibility of a startup and the resources of a global active OEM, MBition develops advanced digital solutions. MBition's innovative products lead to disruptive changes in the automobile industry! Here Jeff is responsible for the system architecture of the next-generation infotainment platform for future Mercedes-Benz vehicles. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TELEFÓNICA GERMANY NEXT GMBH SENIOR PRACTICE LEAD IT/ENGINEERING JAN 2017 - SEPTEMBER 2018 Telefónica NEXT contains 'future bets' for Telefónica Germany. Whether improving the information available to retail stores, building big data processing pipelines for data anonymization, or building consumer-focused IoT services for consumer products, the business units of NEXT are all working on forward-thinking technologies. Jeff was responsible for all horizontal IT functions across all the business units as well as a multi-million Euro budget. For all units he crafted a unified strategy and identified synergies that can be exploited between services. For Geeny, the consumer IoT platform, Jeff was additionally in charge of system architecture and long term strategy. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- KIWI.KI GMBH NÉE DOORFID GMBH VP TECHNOLOGY JAN 2016 - DECEMBER 2016 VP ENGINEERING OCTOBER 2014 - JAN 2016 CHIEF SYSTEMS ARCHITECT JUNE 2012 - OCTOBER 2014 ENGINEERING CONSULTANT APRIL 2012 - JUNE 2012 KIWI.KI GmbH is an IoT Physical Access as a Service company based in Berlin, Germany. They sell a system for apartment buildings where doors unlock automagically as their users approach them. You could consider KIWI a Hardware/SaaS startup with both B2B and B2C components. Jeff was brought on as a contractor to KIWI shortly after it was founded, in order to translate the ideas of the founders into a functional prototype using licensed technology which could be used for fundraising. Following that, he was hired as the Chief Systems Architect, with the primary task to productize the prototype, designing and developing new systems and applications from the mobile phone to the backend, firmware, and even hardware design. The ultimate goal of the KIWI system is to enable new behaviors and modernize residential access control while still strongly guarding user privacy and security. As KIWI grew, Jeff took on the title and additional roles of the VP of Engineering, establishing a strong engineering team as well as the agile processes and products involved in building and supporting the KIWI system. Ultimately, Jeff assumed the title of VP Technolgy, being responsible for not just the development and the development team, but also the future direction of the KIWI System. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CLARITYSPRING INC. TECHNICAL CO-FOUNDER JULY 2011 - OCTOBER 2013 Hedgefund managers send emails with pages and pages of documents in PDF format to potential investors. Hedgefund investors have to dig through these mountains of documentation to determine if the fund is right for them. Neither the managers nor the investors can measure if their time is well spent. ClaritySpring is a platform for helping to increase transparency for hedgefunds, allowing managers to gain meaningful insights to their investor activities, and investors to cut through the paperwork saving time and money. As the technical co-founder, Jeff distilled requirements and built the first version of the ClaritySpring platform. He then oversaw the contractors working on it. Jeff left to focus on KIWI. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- BRIVO SYSTEMS LLC EMBEDDED ENGINEER MAY 2009 - APRIL 2012 Brivo Systems is a physical access control as a service vendor based in Bethesda, MD USA. Jeff's work at Brivo primarily focused on products (firmware, web development) that were not connected to the internet, but still configured through a web browser. In addition, he spearheaded an effort to develop the company’s first new hardware product in more than five years. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- GWHIZ LLC LEAD IOS DEVELOPER 2007 - 2009 gWHIZ is a mobile educational software provider. Jeff was hired to port their BlackBerry software to iOS–in the process he was able to introduce software development best practices and laid down the architecture for a host of successful educational apps. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ADVANCED ACOUSTIC CONCEPTS LLC SOFTWARE ENGINEER 2006 - 2007 AAC is a defense contractor for the US Navy. Jeff worked on documentation, test cases, and developed an automated API testing suite. Clearance was required for this job. SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS Selected highlights of events or conferences where Jeff has spoken, given workshops, and/or mentored. LIVING BITS AND THINGS TOWARDS A RESPONSIBLE INTERNET OF THINGS BLED, SLOVENIA 2019 CODEMASH TOWARDS A RESPONSIBLE INTERNET OF THINGS SANDUSKY, OH USA 2019 CORPORATE INCUBATION AND ACCELERATION SUMMIT EXPERIENCES RUNNING HARDWARE.CO BERLIN, GERMANY 2018 MCKINSEY CIO CONFERENCE IOT MADE FOR THE FUTURE KITZBÜHEL, AUSTRIA 2018 BITS & BEER BERLIN HARDWARE STARTUP STATUS UPDATE BERLIN, GERMANY 2018 THINGSCON A SURVEY OF STRUCTURAL INSECURITIES IN IOT AMSTERDAM, NETHERLANDS 2017 MAKERFAIRE SHENZHEN MAKER GONE PRO: MY STORY SHENZHEN, CHINA 2017 SHENZHEN INDUSTRIAL DESIGN FAIRE WHERE IS MY SMART HOME? SHENZHEN, CHINA 2017 HARDWARE MASSIVE UNLOCKING THE WESTERN RETAIL MARKETS SHENZHEN, CHINA 2017 RIOT FESTIVAL INTERNET OF INVISIBLE THINGS BERLIN, GERMANY 2017 TECHNOMANIA IT'S 2017, WHERE IS MY SMART HOME? HERNING, DENMARK 2017 WT | WEARABLE TECHNOLOGIES BEYOND THE DRAWER SAN FRANCISCO, USA 2017 BUNDESVERBAND DIGITALE WIRTSCHAFT PRIVACY AND SECURITY IN IOT HAMBURG, GERMANY 2017 HARDWARE.CO ACCELERATOR FOUNDER, MENTOR, SPEAKER BERLIN, GERMANY 2013-2016 PHDAYS VI PRIVACY AND SECURITY IN IOT MOSCOW, RUSSIA 2016 GFYL PRIVACY AND SECURITY IN IOT PARIS, FRANCE 2016 IOT CONFERENCE PRIVACY AND SECURITY TALK BERLIN, GERMANY 2015 DATA NATIVES CONFERENCE HARDWARE STARTUP ECOSYSTEM PANEL BERLIN, GERMANY 2015 STARTUP PIRATES HARDWARE ENTREPRENEURSHIP WORKSHOPS LISBON, PORTUGAL 2015 IDCEE HARDWARE ACCELERATOR PANEL KYIV, UKRAINE 2014 PHDAYS III PRIVACY WORKSHOP MOSCOW, RUSSIA 2013 BRUCON ELECTRONIC BADGES BRUSSELS, BELGIUM 2011 HIGHER EDUCATION BACHELOR OF SCIENCE, COMPUTER SCIENCE MINOR: BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION FROSTBURG STATE UNIVERSITY 2009 BACHELOR OF SCIENCE, COMPUTER ENGINEERING NYU TANDON SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING 2004 - 2006 MISCELLANEOUS "Accomplishments" Time's "Man of the Year" 2006, Zimbabwean Trillionaire, Redditor [kraln], Married in 2010 to loving, wonderful wife Work StatusUS Citizen, German Permanent Resident CONTACT Jeff is always interested in interesting conversations. He prefers to meet in person over coffee, however he is also reachable via email. HOME BASE Berlin, Germany MOBILE NUMBER +49 (0)157 377 279 89 +1 (240) 423-0144 EMAIL kraln@kraln.com