Alex, a native from Austria residing in Michigan for 30+ years, has an extensive background in analog and digital document management and the information management Industry as a whole. Alex learned from Kodak and 3M in the 1970’s about automated microfilm systems. He became an entrepreneur in 1976, when his company developed and globally. marketed the industry’s first microprocessor controlled add-on microfilm image retrieval controller (VISCO). He became deeply involved with equipment manufacturing, software development and on-going product innovation in the 1980’s and established OEM relationships with Kodak, 3M, Canon, Minolta, Bell & Howell, Agfa, and Fuji.. In 1992 Alex formed a partnership with Dr. Ferdinand Porsche, of Volkswagen fame, to develop and build his next revolutionary idea – ScreenScan. ScreenScan was a retrofit image scanning device designed to replace conventional microfilm reader screens with a digital scanning screen. ScreenScan (Patent # 5,645,335) won the 1994 Imaging Magazine’s Product of the Year Award and won Alex the Association of Image and Information Management’s (AIIM) coveted “Industry Pioneer Award”.
