Team

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Marcel Werk

Management & Development

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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Thorsten Buitkamp

Customer Service

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.

Alexander Ebert

Development

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.

Freelancers & Trainees

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.