I am the founder and CEO of Intellitics, Inc, a participation startup based in San Jose, CA (USA).

We are building Zilino (http://zilino.com), a web application for online consultations. Zilino allows organizations to engage their constituents in collaborative problem solving and decision making.

In 2009, we launched ParticipateDB (http://ParticipateDB.com), a collaborative catalogue for tools for participation.

I'm originally from Cologne, Germany and moved to Silicon Valley in 2005 where I live with my wife and two sons.