Executive TeamPascal Mangold - CEO & Co-Founder
Pascal Mangold is the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and Co-Founder of Magnolia and has had over 15 years of software development and sales experience. At Magnolia, he oversees sales, business development, budgeting, and financial controlling. Pascal leads all graphical user interface design efforts of Magnolia software products. His passion for usability started back in 1990 when he programmed input masks for the FileMaker Pro database. Entering self-employment as a Macintosh support engineer in 1992, Pascal started a Web agency in 1995 and helped customers with server administration and Web programming until 2000. Since 2000, he focused on business administration after co-founding what later became Magnolia. Pascal is a Jazz enthusiast, plays guitar and once per year the piccolo flute in a Swiss carnival music ensemble that he has participated in since the age of six. He lives in Switzerland with his wife and two children.
Boris Kraft - CTO & Co-Founder
Boris Kraft is Chief Technology Officer (CTO) and Co-Founder of Magnolia. Since 2002, he has been focusing on the development of Magnolia CMS from a strategic and marketing perspective. In 2007 he launched the New-York-based Magnolia Americas, Inc., to establish a stronger presence for Magnolia in the American market. His career in IT includes object-oriented software development under NeXTSTEP, several years of active involvement in a leading Internet security company, the development of a distributed real-time simulation environment, the use of Oracle web technology, databases and CASE tools as well as programming the first ever intranet solution for Roche Vitamins AG. He has been writing software for 25 years and lives in Switzerland with his wife and three kids.
