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Dr. Ricco Deutscher is CTO and co-founder of SOPERA. Before joining 
SOPERA, Ricco Deutscher was an architecture and technology expert at 
McKinsey and in charge of international architecture projects. In this 
capacity he developed the fields of SOA and Open Source at McKinsey. In 
addition, Ricco Deutscher was also co-founder and president of flatfox 
AG, a provider of email marketing technologies. He began his professional 
career as a software architect at SAP AG in Walldorf. Dr. Ricco Deutscher 
studied physics at the Universities of Leipzig and Moscow, and received a 
Doctorate in Theoretical Physics from Hanover.</div>
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