Martin Kaltenböck studied communication, psychology and marketing at the University of Vienna, Austria. In 2000 he was co-founder of punkt. netServices - an Austrian company specialised on information- & knowledge management as well as on Enterprise 2.0 solutions.

He is Co-Founder and Managing Partner of the Semantic Web Company and as CFO responsible for financial and organisational issues. Furthermore he leads and works in several national and international research, industry and projects in public administration - mainly in the area of project management, requirements engineering and communication.

He is tutor and publishes in the fields of Requirements Engineering, Social Semantic Web, Linked (Open) Data as well as Open (Government) Data. Furthermore he is lecturer at national and international conferences and business events in the mentioned topics.

Martin is Certified Management Consultant since 2006, Member of the Executive Board of the Austrian Chapter of the Open Knowledge Foundation and the Advisory Council of Open Knowldge Central (UK) & invited expert at the Cooperation OGD Austria. He is working as invited expert of W3C and for national standardisation bodies.