Markus Kirchberg

Markus holds a PhD in Information Systems with specialisation in distributed database systems and has over 20 years experience in applied research, technology-driven innovation, and productionisation. His career spans across academia, industrial research and incubation labs as well as startups.

Markus has a proven track record of designing and building novel, yet commercially successful solutions across industries like financial services (RegTech & SupTech solutions), healthcare, payments analytics & processing, supply chain operations & financing, as well as transportation.

Markus’ repertoire of skills includes full innovation life-cycle management, cloud computing, data management at multi-petabyte scale, data privacy, distributed ledger technologies, emerging technologies, infrastructure automation, Internet-of-Things, large-scale data analytics, machine learning, and (extreme) transaction processing.

Education

• PhD Massey University (2000 — 2007)
• Master / Diplom Technische Universität Clausthal (1995 — 2000)

Companies

• Adjunct Associate Professor National University of Singapore (2022)
• Head of Artificial Intelligence Potion (2021)
• Fellow On Deck (2020)
• Advisor Kommunity Ventures (2020)
• Academic Advisor Roboto Coding Academy (2018)
• Chief Executive & Technology Officer Wismut Labs (2017)
• Head of Technology SoptAI (2019 — 2020)
• Founder and Managing Director Deep Labs Pte Ltd (2016 — 2020)
• (Acting) Chief Technology Officer Kommunity Ventures (2018 — 2019)