Our Team

Michael Kramer
is CEO & founder of VOICETRUST. He has 20 years of experience in marketing and sales of producer goods and top-quality consumer goods. Before setting up VOICETRUST in 2000, he worked as a restructuring manager at various high-tech companies. In 1999, he had the idea to prevent identity theft by applying voice biometrics. Before making a name for himself in the consumer and biometrics markets, he studied design at the Academy for Applied Arts in Vienna.

Joachim Fischer
is VOICETRUST’s General Manager. Before joining the company, he served in executive positions with SUN Microsystems, Hewlett Packard, Rational Software and Ponsit AG in Silicon Valley. The engineer also led high-tech companies like smartcard producer Towitoko and Spanish software company integranova (“The Programming Machine“) to success. In addition, he gave a series of public lectures and worked as a management coach.

Lutz B. Middelkamp

(VP Sales Europe) is responsible for the German speaking countries as well as for Sweden and Turkey. Before that, Middelkamp was in charge of the wholesale operations of Telefónica Germany with regard to the key account O2 Germany. He has been in the business of selling complex IT and telecommunication products for twelve years.

Stefan Schaefer

(VP Sales US) joined the VOICETRUST team in August 2008. He used to be the Director of Sales / Americas for Reldata, a provider of consolidated storage solutions. Prior to that Schaefer was the Technical Director of Brokat. As a consultant, he supported his clients from the banking, finance and insurance industries in implementing large-scale projects. Schaefer graduated with a double major in computer science and economics from Germany’s prestigious Furtwangen University.

Sven Stoecker

(VP Sales UK) has been working for VOICETRUST in the UK since 2008. Before that he was counselling Vianet plc. in European business development matters and served as the Director Sales & Marketing at 3U Telecom AG and Director Voice Services Central Europe at Carrier1. Stoecker has more than a decade of experience in sales and account management.

TRUSTY

is robot by profession. He is the mascot of VOICETRUST and represents our main server. Currently he performs in a series of short films on the security of the VOICETRUST technology, alongside with opera singer Yvonne Madrid. Will someone succeed in outsmarting TRUSTY – and if so, how? See more on our homepage, again and again in new episodes.