Meet Harald Zapp — “Weeve’s CEO”

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2 min readJan 22, 2018

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Harald Zapp, Weeve CEO

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Harald Zapp is a serial tech entrepreneur, Business Angel and IoT innovator. If ever you met someone who seriously had genuine first-hand experience in the IT and IoT worlds respectively, it would be Harald Zapp. He has more than 25 years of experience in the information technology and telecommunications industry. This is substantiated with the fact that he held Leading Marketing positions at Cisco Systems Germany for 7 years in the 90s.

Furthermore, Harald served as Chief Executive Officer and Chief Operating Officer of ASC Telecom AG from 2007 to 2010. During this time, Harald was in charge of the strategic planning as well as the management and expansion of the global sales structure, with the aim of making the solutions of ASC Telecom AG better known internationally and recognised in the USA, Asian and Pacific countries, and to increase market shares.

The Companies

  • In 2017, he co-founded our company, weeve, with Prof. Dr. Sebastian Gajek. Since its founding, Harald has held the position of CEO.
  • He is also the cofounder of Next Big Thing AG.
  • Adding to the list, he founded the successful IoT brand, relayr, and it has now been running for for over 5 years.
  • Harald is also a member of the BITKOM board, promoting the IoT-Hub Berlin in the context of the German Digital-Hub-Initiative.

Vision

His vision is to build great companies in IIoT/IoT Services with the help of unique innovation system, created around Next Big Thing. Here the ideas meet technology competence, start-up culture and financing.

Harald is forging out a path where technological innovations (deep tech) and IoT meet, keeping innovation and security of key focus in order to make digital transformation tangible.

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