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Location Santa Clara, California, United States Regions San Francisco Bay Area, Silicon Valley, West Coast Gender Male
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Jens Horstmann has 25 years of executive, technology and engineering experience in the high tech industry. Mr. Horstmann advises several start-up ventures and manages MSGO, an intellectual property management company. He recently was the VP of Entertainment Technology at NCR Corporation which acquired DVDPlay, where he served as CTO and previously
its President and CEO. Prior to DVDPlay, he was President and CEO of OpenGrid after it acquired Ensemble Solutions, which Mr. Horstmann founded in 1996. Ensemble Solutions was one of the pioneers in B2B solutions on the internet.
Mr. Horstmann's prior experience includes senior engineering, research and development positions at Sun Microsystems, Siemens, LSI Logic Systems Research Laboratory, and X1 Corporation. He holds several patents and is frequently invited to address audiences on business opportunities of new technologies, funding, venture capital and startup experience. He serves on the board of Acceleware and is Chairman of Kachingle.
Mr. Horstmann holds an MSEE from the University of Braunschweig – Institute of EE and C
