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Rafael Laguna is the Chairman of the Board of Open-Xchange, Inc. 

 

He is further active as a business angel and consultant to AdAstra Venture Capital Funds. He acts as board member for several technology companies, e.g asknet (www.asknet.com), Bäurer (www.baeurer.de) and comparis.ch (www.comparis.ch). From 2002 to 2004, Laguna was crucial to the investment and the successful sale of the AdAstra holding in SUSE Linux to Novell, one of the largest European venture capital exits of recent years.

 

In his last corporate function, Mr. Laguna was Managing Director Central Europe at PMSC which was later renamed as Mynd. Over five years he grew the German Division from 120 to 280 employees and the turnover from € 15m to € 30m. During this time he added and integrated an additional product line (standard software for insurances) mainly through acquisitions. In 2000, Mynd was acquired by CSC Ploenzke.

In the previous position, Mr. Laguna was general manager of micado which makes software products for object-oriented development, PC-host communication and sales support systems. Before selling the company to PMSC, he grew the company from 20 to 100 employees and to € 15m turnover.

Mr. Laguna started his professional career in the early 1980s with marketing of software products and the design and development of PC-based POS terminals at self-founded or small companies.

Mr. Laguna is 42 years old, married and has two children.