Management

Johannes Ernst, CEO

Johannes is the visionary behind NetMesh and the original creator of the NetMesh technology portfolio. Before starting NetMesh (with the placeholder name R-Objects), Johannes was founder, CEO, and Chief Architect of Aviatis Corp., a venture-backed Silicon Valley startup that provided distributed engineering tools. At Aviatis, he oversaw the successful development and market introduction of a novel collaboration and integration product for technical users in the automotive industry.

A native of Germany, he came to California in 1995 to work for Integrated Systems, an embedded software vendor since merged with Wind River Systems. Previously, he had been with BMW Engineering in Munich, Germany, and FZI, from where he consulted for a large German automotive consortium on distributed product development processes.

Johannes has always been active in industry groups: In the Object Management Group, he started the group that defined object-oriented modeling for real-time systems (UML for real-time). He participated in the definition of the UML object modeling language. He also was an officer of CDIF, an early industry group defining semantic meta-models and interchange facilities.

Most recently, he co-initiated the Yadis project, which defines the emerging interoperablity layer for internet-wide, decentralized digital identity technologies.

In 2001, Johannes became a member of a select group of "Technology Pioneers" recognized by the World Economic Forum in its annual Davos meeting, Switzerland. He is a frequent speaker a conferences (e.g. PC Forum, Digital Identity World, Microsoft's Mix, O'Reilly ETel, Harvard/Berkman Identity Mashup, SD Forum, World Economic Forum).

Johannes currently holds two patents and has several others pending. He has a doctorate and a master's degree in electrical engineering from the universities of Karlsruhe and Erlangen, Germany, respectively.