Active for 18 years as a development engineer, lateral thinker and technology driver in the areas of plant construction, process engineering and software development, the development of numerous complex systems, solutions and machinery is to Frank Schäfer today quite natural rather than a distinction. He does not ask why. He asks why not. And because of this he had the idea of road traffic tyre tread testing. Precisely: why not…

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frank.schaefer(at)procontour.com

Ali Yarayan (Law Society YARAYANCZECHLOUIS - www.kanzlei-ycl.de) has received a doctorate in the area of copyright protection on the protection of databases according to German and Turkish law. Because neither here nor there is this everybody's cup of tea – and was and is to him especially for this reason a matter of personal interest. Today he is among other things an assistant lecturer at the University of Erlangen, Germany and, moreover, active as an expert of the Turkish delegation of the European Commission. … When Dr. Yarayan is at the moment not involved in protecting one of the numerous patents held by the company ProContour GmbH.

Has studied aerospace engineering and was lastly active as "Regional Sales Manager" for one of the largest German machinery vendors in Africa and the Middle East. 11 years of sales experience in Germany and in foreign countries have not only taught him several foreign languages but have also taught him to understand the people behind these languages. Whereby one of his most important insights was and is: "People speaking the same language do not always speak the same language…"

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ulrich.thielmann(at)procontour.com

Has as a leading scientist in the area of measurement and image processing systems been involved in US American and European-Russian space missions (Spacelab 1, D1, Mir 92, Euromir 94, Euromir 95, ISS 2004, Astrolab 2006). He then decided in favour of ground stations and established a renowned technology enterprise focusing on high-speed image sensors. In order to guide these in controllable orbits also on this side of the stratosphere.

Friedrich-J. Baartz is, among other things, the founder and chief executive officer of the company Chronos Vision GmbH, one of the worldwide leading technology vendors in the area of high-speed image sensors and applications. Dr. Friedrich Baartz has, just like Prof. Andrew Clarke, accumulated a profound know-how and a long-standing experience in the area of astronautics and medical technology. Both hate disproportionately high altitude flights because both have come to the conclusion "The sky isn´t the limit - the ground is..."

Manfred Weber studied measurement and control technology at the Gauss Academy in Berlin as well as solid-state electronics at the RWTH Aachen. He was among other things at the company Blaupunkt head of the control engineering department but preferred from 1985 onwards the delusive calmness of a freelance development engineer. As co-founder of the company ProContour GmbH, Manfred Weber is making available his experience and know-how from numerous electronic and measurement engineering projects in the area of custom engineering. As a devoted admirer of the excellent scientist Johann Carl Friedrich Gauß, he likes to philosophise occasionally on the "Gaussian Law of Error Propagation" according to which when the determination of the input quantity is in error, then the output quantity will also be calculated in error, or to put it more colloquially: "garbage in/garbage out". But this is an entirely different story…

A globetrotter run aground at the upper Rhine! After successfully obtaining his electrical engineering degree at the College of Higher Education at Gießen-Friedberg, Dr. Bach moved to England in order to obtain a doctorate degree working on a new image providing process for industrial materials testing. In his specialist area of digital image processing, Dr. Bach is extending the field of competence for the currently used light section process and is, moreover, in charge of the development and the evaluation of alternative technologies.

The learned electronics specialist for electrical energy equipment preferred to continue learning by additionally studying general computer science and computer networks. After various jobs in Germany and in foreign countries as a software developer this is also his area of expertise at ProContour which he joined on April 1, 2008. Since that time his knowledge in the area of software design, software development and the Linux operating system is available to ProContour.

Mrs. Embs represents at ProContour the Saarland. Raised there, Alexandra Embs successfully studied law at the University of Saarbrücken and thereafter was active as a scientific officer at an university faculty. Her organising ability which was fine tuned through her job at university and through her three children comes in very handy in Administration and Accounting at ProContour.

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alexandra.embs(at)procontour.com

Has been with ProContour almost right from the start. In August 2008 Mr. Hitzler joined as a graduand and was at that time involved in drawing up marketing concepts. After having successfully completed his study by obtaining his Master of Business Administration at the College of Higher Education in Augsburg, Germany he took on tasks in the area of Sales, Marketing and Approval. Should you not like our giveaways then he is the right person to get in touch with.

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fabian.hitzler(at)procontour.com

As "successful manager of a small family business" with four children, one enterprising husband and a not even less demanding domestic dog named Merlin, Silke Schäfer (… neither related or related by marriage but married to and closely affiliated with Frank Schäfer) has always belonged to the pragmatic frontline fighters and "hands on people" rather than the summiteers of university ivory towers. But which did not stop her in adding a scientifically founded focus to the awarded ProContour business plan which has won a well-renowned prize. Mrs Schäfer is currently enjoying parental leave, during all other times, i.e. almost always she is involved in “general administration work” at ProContour. … when not attending to her four children Lisa, Lara, Maximilian and Nikolas.