Dr. Wieland Holfelder
Engineering Director & Site Lead, Google Germany GmbH
Dr. Wieland Holfelder joined Google in 2008 and oversees Google's engineering activities in Germany. Prior to Google, Wieland Holfelder was Vice President and Chief Technology Officer of Mercedes- Benz Research and Technology North America, Inc. in Silicon Valley. Previously, he worked for ICAST Corporation and FVC.com, two Internet startup companies in the area of streaming video. As part of his Ph.D. research, Wieland worked at IBM's European Networking Center in Heidelberg, Germany and the International Computer Science Institute in Berkeley, CA.
Engineering Director & Site Lead, Google Germany GmbH
Dr. Wieland Holfelder joined Google in 2008 and oversees Google's engineering activities in Germany. Prior to Google, Wieland Holfelder was Vice President and Chief Technology Officer of Mercedes- Benz Research and Technology North America, Inc. in Silicon Valley. Previously, he worked for ICAST Corporation and FVC.com, two Internet startup companies in the area of streaming video. As part of his Ph.D. research, Wieland worked at IBM's European Networking Center in Heidelberg, Germany and the International Computer Science Institute in Berkeley, CA.
He holds a master’s in computer science and
economics and a doctorate in computer science from the University of Mannheim, Germany.


