History
With 200,000 subscribers and enterprise installations as large as 6,000-plus users, Terratial is quickly establishing a powerful footprint in the exploding mobile consumer and enterprise market alike. Initially breaking ground in the fun and games category for BlackBerry users before pioneering business applications and finally going across the board with unique cross-platform provisioning software, Terratial Technologies delivers award winning software, wonderful user experience and commercially profitable applications.
In 2008, Terratial introduced T-Live™, a rapid application development platform for mobile content management with an iPod-like interface and universal connectivity to RSS news feeds, intranet, Internet and other data sources (e.g., SAP, Oracle). In 2010, an icon-based iPhone-like interface was added. T-Live™ is available as a location-based mobile information portal or as a fully customizable "private label" mobile platform for "mobilizing" content of any kind and branding. T-Live includes a facility to disperse/redeem coupons electronically on mobile phones and over the Internet.
Awarded the much-coveted Handango BlackBerry Developer of the Year Award when it was given out for the first time in 2005, Terratial Technologies received it for the second time in 2008. Along with Handmark's Award for Development Excellence and the award for Leading Developer of Innovation by Orange, Terratial Technologies has established a track record for creating a consistent, reliable and sustainable foundation of mobile software development for years to come.
Over the past 6 years Terratial Technologies successfully changed its business model from a seller of mobile products in 2004 to a subscription service provider in 2005 and, in 2007, to an ad-based content provider. In 2008 terratial introduced T-Life™, a mobile content management system to provide serious mobile connectivity to the masses
The company was founded in 2004 and is headquartered in Atlanta, GA, received multiple awards and graduated in 2008 from the Advanced Technology Development Center at Georgia Technology Institute having achieved the requisite revenue level in the previous year.
Founders
Klaus K. Obermeier, CEO and President
Klaus K. Obermeier is a serial entrepreneur currently leading Terratial's effort to establish a unique product into the mobile marketplace: a fully automated mobile content/context management system which enables organizations to build applications once and directly deploy them on any available Smartphone. He is the "Go-To" expert for all aspects of mobile computing and commerce as well as natural language processing for professional client services.
In 2002, in partnership with Les Charles he raised 2 million Euro from a European investor for a German-based start-up to provide web service automation and integration for IP-enabled devices specializing in Cisco VoIP applications. In 1998 he sold his company SQLBench International, Inc., a US start-up based on a European-designed database performance simulator, to NASDAQ-traded Segue Software, Inc. for over USD $10 million after only one year in operation.
As an established book author ("Natural Language Processing in Artificial Intelligence") he is currently working on "The Mobile Paradigm - Mobile Enterprise Transformation". He is the recipient of multiple industry awards (e.g., Inventor and Business Development Award from Battelle Memorial Institute for a natural language interface to Oracle). He provides consulting services via Gerson Lehrman and is a regular reviewer for the ACM-affiliate Computing Reviews. He received his Ph.D. from The Ohio State University in Artificial Intelligence/Computational Linguistics for his work on Temporal Inferences in Computational Linguistic Information Processing. He is a triple alumnus of the Advanced Technology Development Center at The Georgia Institute of Technology.
Les Charles, Chief Technical Officer
Les Charles designs and develops mobile applications for real-life problems by converting cutting edge conceptual designs into practical and efficient solutions. He is an expert in all technical aspects of mobile development with over 20 years of programming experience. He is the architect and implementer of T-Life™, a mobile content management system as well as DocHawk™ the first comprehensive email attachment viewer for the BlackBerry.
He received the coveted "BlackBerry Developer of the Year Award" twice from Handango and was recognized for outstanding product development for individual offerings. He successfully orchestrated the transition of Terratial from a mobile product to an ad-based subscription company.
As Director of International Technical Sales at Segue Software, he managed the entire group of European sales engineers, excelling in customer satisfaction. He was Director of Applied Technology at Softblox, managing diverse groups of software developers (e.g., interface and middleware specialists). He holds the degree of Master of Information Technology from the Florida Institute of Technology and received a BA in International Business and Computer Science from the University of Maryland/European Division, Berlin, Germany. He graduated twice from the Advanced Technology Development Center at The Georgia Institute of Technology.
