Location Berlin, Berlin, Germany Regions European Union (EU), Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) Gender Male
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Thomas J. Ackermann, born 1962 in Germany, studied at WWU in Münster/Westfalia and Taft University in California and holds a Bachelor of Science degree in System Analysis. He spent most of his professional career so far around Internet-centric start-ups, from being the first ISP in his hometown, starting his start-up in Germany in the early
days of the Internet, then moving to the US and Silicon Valley in 1994 for the disruptive Internet revolution, where he helped build several startup companies. Among those, he built the global infrastructure for the 1st animation of the Internet (ShockWave/Flash), deployed the 1st content mirror sites for Macromedia in London and Tokyo, built the 1st SuperPOP (carrier-free) data center in the heart of Silicon Valley (Globix), built the infrastructure for the 1st multi-bank money transfer system through a web-based service (CashEdge), the 1st global bartering site with virtual currency (Bartertrust), as well as developed the 1st working defense against distributed Denial-of-Service (dDoS) attacks (Melior Inc CyberWarfare). Thomas J Ackermann attended William Howard Taft University.
