Kurt Schmid, CEO

Kurt Schmid has more than 20 year of business experience in the Security, Smart Card and RFID industry.

Before NEXPERTS Kurt Schmid was CEO of OMNIKEY, a company he grew to one of the world’s top three players in the smart card reader business.
Previously Kurt worked as CTO at Utimaco Safeware AG, a security and encryption specialist, listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange.

Kurt Schmid, born in 1961, holds a Master in Business Administration and Computer Sciences from the Johannes Kepler University in Linz, Austria and is holder of several patents.

Raimund Wilhelmer, Business Development Manager

After studying Physics at the University of Linz, Raimund Wilhelmer started in Solution Business Development at Utimaco Safe Concepts in Linz. He was responsible for “special projects” especially related to PKI and Smartcard Technologies in the DACH region, before he took the role of Product Manager at Omnikey, establishing its product portfolio.

In 2001 he came to IT_SEC/SECUDE and was responsible for product management of infrastructure products and building up activities in Austria. In 2003 he was cofounder and Managing Director of cpsd it services gmbh in Linz and established a high level security company in developing security products and providing IT security consulting. Beside this, Raimund Wilhelmer 2006 as Business Angel and Managing Director established BITC –Business & Information Technology GmbH, which is now a very well known initiative in providing high level consulting of IT and process management.

In the last two years Raimund Wilhelmer very successfully supported several IT Startups in establishing their business, building up partner relationship, defining organizational structuring and strengthen business activities.