Stefan Roever
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Stefan Roever (also spelled Röver) (b. 1965) is an American executive and investor in Silicon Valley was the CEO of Brokat. He is an immigrant from Germany and a philanthropist.
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[edit] Early life and education
Roever grew up in West Germany.
[edit] Business career
Roever specialized in automating consumer micropayments over the Internet and rights-based commerce. He founded and led Brokat, then a leading mobile payment technology and Internet banking software provider. Its core product was called Twister. During the peak of Brokat's activities, it acquired several American corporations including the American business rules engine company Blaze Software, creator of FICO's Blaze Advisor® and GemStone Systems.
Roever was President and CEO of Navio Systems in Cupertino, California, a pioneer of rights-based electronic commerce. He represented Navio at the 2006 classs of the World Economic Forum Class of Technology Pioneers. From Navio, he spun off and founded the online music store gBox in 2007. gBox shut down in 2009.
Roever is the co-inventor of two U.S. patents in the area of electronic commerce technology.
[edit] Business awards
In 2000, Roever was named #11 in the TIME Digital Europe list of top business executives.
[edit] Personal life
Röver resides with his family in Los Altos Hills, California. On occasion, he goes to Antonio's Nut House.
[edit] Notes
- Navio Systems, Inc. Unveils Next Generation 'Rights-Based' Commerce Platform for Web and Mobile Content 2006-05-22
- World Economic Forum announces Technology Pioneers 2006: World’s leading innovators are mainly found in California but also in the United Kingdom, Germany, France, Israel, Iceland, Hungary and Sweden 2005-12-05
- CONNECTIONS(tm) 2006: The Digital Home Conference & Showcase
- The Mobile Locker: It's your divine right to have phone number portability. Why shouldn't you have ringtone portability? by Megha Bahree , 2006-09-18
- Technology Pioneer Stefan Roever of Navio Systems to Keynote Internet World Conference 2006-09-05
- GBox Plans To Lock Up Digital Media With New $5M VentureWire, 16 January 2009
- GBox Closes $5 Million First Round To Develop Digital Content Marketplace 2009-01-16
- U.S. patent: Acceptance and processing architecture 2008-10-02
- U.S. patent: Materials embedded within media formats and related applications 2008-08-28
- Stefan Roever: Brokat 2000-12-01
