Summary
Gerold Setz is a strategic technology leader with 11 years of industry experience who currently shapes industry strategy at Siemens while co-running a niche startup that combats fraud by maintaining high-quality lists of disposable email providers. He blends sales-led enterprise experience in COMOS product lines across pharma and EMEA with hands-on product and go-to-market work from his long-standing entrepreneurial ventures. Known for turning complex domain requirements into clear, business-facing value propositions, he focuses on demand identification, simplifying complexity, and responsible execution. His background spans technical leadership, presales, and IT management dating back to co-founding engineering and software firms in the 1990s and early 2000s. Based in Klagenfurt, Austria, he pairs a formal business education with an electronics/IT foundation, enabling cross-functional influence from engineering to sales. An understated but practical differentiator: he sustains a widely used, trustworthy data resource for online businesses that prevents fake subscriptions and supports fraud prevention.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Dipl.-HTL-Ing., Electronics, IT, Dipl.-HTL-Ing., Electronics, IT at HTBLA Klagenfurt
Mag. rer.soc.oec. (Master equivalent), Business Administration and Management, General, Mag. rer.soc.oec. (Master equivalent), Business Administration and Management, General at Universität Klagenfurt
German, English