Management Team

Gustavo Alonso / CTO

Alonso, most recently professor at Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH), brings extensive experience in databases, enterprise application integration, transaction processing, data replication, and middleware platforms. In addition to his academic role, Alonso has worked as an IT consultant for the financial industry. He was also a researcher at IBM Almaden – working in workflow management and transactional messaging -- before joining ETH Zürich in 1995, becoming a full professor in 2001.
 
Alonso has an engineering degree in telecommunications from the Madrid Technical University in Spain (1989); as well as a M.S. and Ph.D. in Computer Science from UC Santa Barbara (1992 and 1994).
 
 
Maximilian Ahrens / VP Products

Ahrens is an expert and frequent speaker on international conferences for service oriented architecture and virtualization. Before co-founding Zimory, he served as a project manager and research scientist at the innovation development entity of Deutsche Telekom Laboratories. Responsible for infrastructure and enterprise IT projects spanning multiple divisions of the Deutsche Telekom group -- Ahrens is an expert on enterprise IT and business processes. Before Deutsche Telekom, he led several business process reengineering projects for major German companies.

Ahrens obtained his diploma in Industrial Engineering from Berlin Technical University.