Alexander Falk
 

ENTREPRENEUR. INVESTOR. CO-FOUNDER & CEO OF ALTOVA. DISTRICT GOVERNOR ELECT (DG 2022-23) AND MAJOR DONOR CHAIR OF ROTARY DISTRICT 7930.
INTERESTS: MOBILES, DRONES, IOT, JSON, XBRL, XML, XPATH, XQUERY, XSLT, XML SCHEMA, AND RELATED TECHNOLOGIES.
HOBBIES: SKIING, BOATING, READING.

 

Blog

blog.altova.com


Portfolio companies

Altova
Fenway Sports Group
Alps&Meters
VelloHealth
Skycatch
InsideTracker
Rental Beast
VirZOOM
Usersnap
Black-I Robotics
Why Not Choose Love: A Mary Pickford Manifesto


Social Media

@afalk on Twitter
@afalk on Facebook
@a.falk on Instagram
@afalk on LinkedIn
@afalk on Angel.co
@afalk on LinkTree
@afalk on Xing
@afalk@m.falk.us on Mastodon


Rotary

Marblehead Rotary Club
Rotary District 7930
Rotary Youth Exchange
ESSEX
NEPETS House of Friendship
Rotary International


Policy

Email Policy


Family

Nora Falk
Calvin Falk
Swanee Falk
Heinz Falk
Till Davy


 

In today's social media-focused and hyper-connected world it is perhaps unusual to find a "good old personal website". However, I've been active in the software industry since 1983 and have seen platforms come and go (dare I mention AOL, Geocities, MySpace, etc.), so I believe in maintaining a web presence that is indeed reachable from anywhere, is under my full control, and is not part of any particular silo.

Nonetheless I do maintain a presence on most social media sites, too, so please feel free to follow me on Twitter or connect with me on any of the other sites on the left, but please do write a short note on where we met or how you know me so that I can approve those connections appropriately. If you're really old-school, you can also reach me on the amateur radio bands. My ham radio operator call-sign is K1XML.

Rotary

I have been an active member of Rotary for 13+ years, previously served as President (2018-19) of the Marblehead Rotary Club. I currently serve as District Governor 2022-23 of Rotary District 7930, which covers Northeastern Massachusetts and Southern New Hampshire.

If you are interested in learning more about Rotary Youth Exchange, please visit the Rotary District 7930 Youth Exchange site.

Rotary

Short Bio

Alexander Falk founded Altova in 1992 in Vienna, Austria; member of the W3C XML Schema working group that defined the XML Schema 1.0 specs; member of the W3C Advisory Committee; co-creator of the popular Altova XMLSpy XML Editor; established US subsidiary Altova, Inc. in 2001 and relocated to the USA; President & CEO of Altova; VIP member of the Kepler Society (Alumni Club of the Johannes Kepler University). Always interested in new technologies and creating new developer products that improve the software development cycle. As an entrepreneur and investor the focus is clearly on software, drones, IoT, and XML-related technologies. More career details can be found on LinkedIn.

Altova

Altova® is a software company specializing in tools that assist developers with data management, software and application development, mobile development, and data integration. The creator of XMLSpy® and other award-winning products, Altova is a key player in the software tools industry and the leader in XML solution development tools.

Altova offers a complete line of desktop developer software for XML, SQL, and UML; high-performance workflow automation server products; and a cross-platform mobile development platform. With over 4.7 million users worldwide, including 91% of Fortune 500 organizations, Altova is honored to serve clients from small and medium-sized businesses to the world’s largest organizations.

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