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Roman Scharf, Co-Founder

In late 2004, Roman teamed up with Daniel Mattes to form JAJAH. At the company, Roman focuses on strategic product development, marketing and public relations. Roman's position as senior consultant for a number of international enterprises developed his above-average skills in recognizing the potential of innovative products and product design, and improved his marketing competence and strategic experience.

Roman Scharf graduated from Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration, receiving an excellency award from the European Commission for his thesis on "Environmental Management and Eco-Auditing." This marked the completion of an international academic career touching down in Austria, Russia, the UK and Denmark. After one year of working for the European Commission GD XXIII in Brussels, Roman eventually started his career as a management consultant. Soon after, he became a managing partner in Vienna-based consulting firm ECOS Consulting, where he developed expertise in executing large, complex projects on a pan-European basis.

In 1999 Roman was named senior consultant for Central- and Eastern Europe. His position and competence opened opportunities for future responsibilities in strategic consulting around Europe, namely advisory positions for a variety of enterprises, mostly in the IT industry.

In 2001 Roman became an original angel investor in Ecotech Software GmbH, a provider of software solutions for architects and engineers, whose management team he later joined. He was responsible for Business Development and Marketing for the Ecotech Group, as well as Executive Manager of Ecotech Software Germany - the groups main branch. In 2004 Ecotech was acquired by Rockwool international.

Daniel Mattes, Co-Founder

Daniel Mattes has started programming software after he got his first computer as a present for his confirmation. He studied computer science and economics at the Technical University of Linz and holds a degree as certified e-Business manager.

After beeing consultant for different enterprises he started his first company, a public tendering Internet solution, which received the Austrian Federal Award of Excellence. Two years later he sold the company to a governmental institution after it has become Austria's most common e-government platform. Next Daniel has developed a state of the art videoconferencing solution leading him into his second venture. The technology as well as the company have been acquired by a multinational group in early 2004. Consequently Daniel and his key team went into VoIP and developed the propriatory core technology of JAJAH