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Martin studied communication, psychology and marketing at the University of Vienna. In 2000 he was co-founder of punkt. netServices - an Austrian company specialised on information- & knowledge management as well as on Enterprise 2.0 solutions.

Since 2005 he is co-founder and Managing Partner of the Semantic Web Company (SWC) and as CFO responsible for financial and organisational issues. Furthermore he leads and works in several national and international research, industry and projects in public administration - mainly in the area of project management, requirements engineering and consulting.

He is tutor and publishes in the fields of Linked (Open) Data (LOD), semantic data- and information management, metadata management and knowledge graphs as well as Open (Government) Data. Furthermore he is lecturer at national and international conferences and business events in the mentioned topics.

He is Certified Management Consultant since 2006, Member of the Executive Board of the Austrian Chapter of the Open Knowledge Foundation (OKFN) & the Cooperation OGD Austria as well as Member of the Steering Committee of the European Data Forum (http://data-forum.eu) that he chaired in Athens, Greece in 2014. He is working as invited expert of W3C.