Marcel Werk is the founder and Managing Director of WoltLab.
While his time at school he privately studied the programming languages Java and PHP enthusiastically. In time he also experimented with developing private websites and small applications.
Before finishing school he already began to develop the first version of Burning Board®, the successful forum software. A short time later WoltLab had become his full time profession consequentially transforming his hobby into his main occupation.
Marcel is the main person in charge for developing products at WoltLab. Being Managing Director and main developer of WoltLab at once, he focusses on high quality standards when developing software. His visions led to successful business concepts and products such as Burning Board® and Community Framework™.
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Harald Szekely comes from Graz (Styria, Austria) and is the designer of WoltLab since 2005.
1990 he graduated at the HTBLA for Graphic-Design at the Ortweinplatz in Graz. Several jobs for different companies in the graphics and design industry followed, but also some in other sectors, as well as some very inspiring long-time trips to foreign countries, like India, taking his talent to further levels and making up his already good English skills.
He is enthusiastically providing his long-time design experience for WoltLab now. He is responsible for all design matters, be it web, screen or print, as well as HTML and CSS coding. He also moderates in the Support Forum with great pleasure.
In private Harald generally likes it cozy, he is interested in books, indie music, photography, biking and of course the internet. But he also has a fable for architecture of the late 19th century, does paintings and drawings and likes to travel far.
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The native of Nordhorn went through a commercial apprenticeship on commercial information technology. He rounded his vocational training off as office administrator in a small company. For a long time he was also voluntary radio host at the open radio station »Ems-Vechte-Welle«. From 2002 on Thorsten devoted himself to the products of WoltLab. He moderated and administered numerous boards since then and gained a lot of experience with handling the software and also supporting the users.
His occupation at WoltLab comprises advicing and supporting customers by phone as well as answering the e-mails which reach us daily. Beyond that Thorsten is also often helping customers in our Support Forum and answeres on problems e.g. those before purchasing our software. One of his organizational tasks is answering and managing our correspondence.
Thorsten is a fun-loving and open-minded man who manages to always make us laugh. His spare-time he likes to spend with books, visits at the cinema and activities with friends.
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Born and grown up in Düsseldorf, Alexander Ebert went to Berlin in 2010 to be a part of the WoltLab team as developer.
He gathered his extraordinary knowledge in development and design by private studies and numerous private projects he ran. He was involved in many WoltLab-related projects even before he went to work with us and was an important part of the developing team right from the start. Alexander is a long-time voluntary team member in the WoltLab Community (WCom) and in this context he was the developer of a number of very popular plugins like the WBB-Portal. His other tasks have been the moderation and third-party-plugin testing.
Some of his hobbies are dancing (Standards and Latin), computer gaming and everything else related with programming in general.
From time to time WoltLab offers jobs for employees, freelancers and also helps trainees with their training. There is a vast number of experienced customers surfing our support and community forums and always willing to voluntarily help others facing problems with our software.
