Stefan Utzinger
CEO

After developing IT-systems for the EU and the Hoechst AG as a student, Stefan Utzinger laid the groundwork of his entrepreneurial engagement with the foundation of Conceptware AG in 1992. He led the company specializing in content management systems as chairman of the board until 2001 - acquiring renowned VC companies as investors. Among others, a leading German economics magazine recognized his work: According to „WirtschaftsWoche“ he belongs to the „Elite of the Future“ and was awarded respectively in the year 2000.

Stefan Utzinger continued to consult leading IT-enterprises strategically, thereby contributing to the building of a sales network. Among his tasks were the position as Head of Partner business with Intershop and the setting-up of the outsourcing business at Arvato Systems. Another milestone was the expansion of the European distribution network for Allaire (now Adobe).

Stefan Utzinger joined NovaStor in 2004. After being in charge of the research & development processes, he was assigned Executive Vice President Marketing & Technology. In 2007 Stefan Utzinger has been appointed as Chief Executive Officer (CEO). In this role he is responsible for NovaStor’s worldwide business operations.

Mike Andrews
Managing Director & Executive Vice President, Worldwide Sales

Mike Andrews was promoted to the position of Managing Director in January 2007, retaining the title of Executive Vice President of Worldwide Sales, a position which he has held at NovaStor since July of 2000. He is responsible for the operations of NovaStor’s North American head quarters and for the global sales of NovaStor’s complete product line.

Prior to NovaStor, in 1990, he managed a Canadian government inventory tracking and security initiative for 7 years leading to hundreds of millions in cost avoidance and savings, In 1997, he then became the Executive Vice President of Sales at Authentex Software, acting as the North American Distribution for ThunderByte Anti-Virus and a world wide distributor for the award winning DataSafe Encryption Software solution.

He is a 17 year veteran of the data security industry, is co-founder of a system integration and services company and currently sits on the board of Paradox, a non-profit organization that furnishes under privileged students with computers and professional training to assist in the creation of better work opportunities.

Christopher Harvey
CTO

As CTO, Christopher Harvey is responsible for predicting and understanding technology trends and leading the company and its highly skilled software engineering team in developing solutions that will benefit NovaStor’s customers most as well as implementing the companies technical business strategy.

With over 20 years of IT and software design experience, Mr. Harvey’s role is critical in helping NovaStor make sound and informed technical decisions with respect to core and enabling technologies and software solutions. Appointed to CTO in 2001, Christopher has helped direct the company to becoming one of the pre-eminent Desktop and Online Backup software solution providers in the market today.

He joined NovaStor in 1998 as part of a Merger agreement with Hotwire Data Security, a company he helped found and creator of one of the first Online Backup solutions on the market. Prior to Hotwire, Mr. Harvey ran the technical and software development group at ComputerWise Inc. and, earlier, functioned as a Systems and Sales Engineering for General Computer Corporation.

Following Undergraduate studies at Pennsylvania State University in Electrical Engineering, where he specialized in Artificial Intelligence and systems design, Christopher joined Tandy Corporation and was quickly promoted to technical sales management. Mr. Harvey was a founding member of the Enhanced Backup Solutions Initiative (EBSI), sits on the boards of 3 companies and has earned certificates from both the MIT Sloan School of Business, and the Data Processing Managers Association.

Adrian Knapp
Chairman & CEO of Novavisions AG

Adrian Knapp has a Master's in Business Economics. After a commercial education and employment outside of the IT industry, including an extended period abroad, he began his career in IT in 1987. In 1991 he was co-founder of Dicom AG, an International IT company which became DICOM PLC and went public on AIM London in 1995.

In 1994 he joined COPE AG, a Swiss based IT firm he co-founded. Cope went public on Nasdaq in 1998 and later merged with Mount10. Mount10 went public on Neuer Markt, Frankfurt in 2000. Mount10 bought NovaStor in 2005.

In 2006 he was the main initiator of Novavisions AG, a Holding Company that invests in technology companies with focus in the Digital Lifestyle market. Novavisions holds 100% of NovaStor. Adrian serves as Chairman and together with Markus Bernhard and the management team he is responsible for NovaStor´s strategic direction.