Legal Constitution

The industrial competence network Softnet Austria is legally constituted as a registered non-profit corporation with both business enterprises and university departments as its members.

The association is dually financed through company interests and public subsidies of the K-net programme of the Federal Ministry of Economic Affairs and Labour (BMWA), the federal state of Styria and Vienna, and the cities of Graz and Vienna.

Organization Chart

Board of Directors

Chairman

Univ.-Prof. Dr. Franz Wotawa, Institute for Software Technology, Technische Universität Graz

1st vice chairman

Univ.-Prof. Dr. Manfred Tscheligi, ICT&S, University of Salzburg

2nd vice chairman

Univ.-Prof. Dr. Sanja Boltek-Nemsic, Kapsch Carriercom GmbH.

3rd vice chairman

Dr. Jürgen Krasser AVL List GmbH.

Treasurer

Klaus Schmid, MBA, Softlab GmbH.

1st auditor

Dr. Klaus Pirklbauer, Software Competence Center Hagenberg (SCCH)

2nd auditor

Dr. Birnsky Wolfgang, Siemens AG Österreich, Programm und Systementwicklung (PSE)