Johannes Adler

Business Angel, Investor and Board Member

Vienna, Vienna, Austria

About

I studied mathematics and computer science at the TU in Vienna, where I graduated in 1980 and was then an assistant professor in the field of stochastics and data science. From 1986 I joined a software company in Munich as a developer, architect and project manager for software systems in the areas of transport, logistics, production planning and financial services. In January 1998, I founded ANECON with two partners, and in the following two decades the company has grown to a size of almost 200 employees with branches in Austria and Germany. We have been able to lead complex software projects to success, introduce innovations and use agile methods to make the design and implementation process more flexible and improve quality assurance by new testing methods. The goal is always to generate real customer benefits. By selling the company to Nagarro in January 2018, we have secured the long-term growth course we had embarked on up to that point and created the opportunity to carry out innovative projects in a globally active company. Since the end of 2020, I have retired from the management of Nagarro and work as a business angel and investor for innovative start-ups by supporting them with entrepreneurial experience, business networks and investment. The portfolio of my investments includes a dozen companies from the high-tech environment (AI, data science and digitalisation in the areas of finance, health, logistics and real property).

Experience

  • Investor and Business Angel at K4A Future
    Jul 2017 - Present · 9 yrs

    Lead Investor and Innovator

  • Nagarro (4 yrs)
    • Startup Outreach
      Oct 2019 - Jan 2022 · 2 yrs 4 mos

    • Vice President
      Feb 2018 - Aug 2020 · 2 yrs 7 mos

      Thinking Breakthroughs

  • Geschäftsführer at ANECON Software Design und Beratung GmbH merging with Nagarro Austria GmbH
    Nov 2017 - Feb 2018 · 4 mos

    unlock future potential

  • ANECON Holding Beteiligungsmanagement und Service G.m.b.H. (19 yrs 11 mos)
    • Managing Director
      Sep 2015 - Nov 2017 · 2 yrs 3 mos

      top Management Consulting, General Management, IT-strategy consulting

    • Managing Director
      Jan 2010 - Aug 2015 · 5 yrs 8 mos

      General Management, Business Development

    • Managing Director
      Jan 1998 - Dec 2012 · 15 yrs

      Founder of ANECON Software Design und Beratung GmbH General Management

  • Senior Principal Consultant, P & L responsibility at Servodata
    Mar 1994 - Dec 1997 · 3 yrs 10 mos

    Software architecture, project management, software engineering, IT-Consulting, trainer for UML, object oriented analysis and design, extreme programming