Team
Meet the management team behind the UpdateStar project.
Frank Alperstaedt
Frank excels at transforming innovative ideas into successful software products. With years of executive experience in the software industry, he has grown successful companies from the ground up, both domestically and internationally. His focus lies in strategic development and overall business management, positioning products ahead of the competition.
Frank dedicates most of his time to funding Olaf's seemingly endless stream of new ideas and products. He holds a Master of Business Science from Freie Universität Berlin.
Michael Ganss
Michael oversees UpdateStar's development from a technical perspective, managing Frank's continuous stream of feature requests. His extensive experience in executive positions within the software industry brings invaluable insight to the UpdateStar project, reaching an installation base numbering in the tens of millions and significantly simplifying software management for computer users.
Michael holds an M.S. in Computer Science from Technische Universität Berlin.
Olaf Kehrer
Olaf typically works in focused development sessions, only emerging for coffee breaks or new episodes of House, M.D. When not conceptualizing the next software project, he manages the development team responsible for building our applications.
In 1996, he graduated with a degree in Computer Science from Technische Universität Berlin. Immediately after graduation, he co-founded his first software company, O&O Software, with a fellow student. The O&O Group now serves customers in 140 countries and maintains partnerships in more than 50 countries.