Geck is responsible for continued development and communication of the company’s technology strategies. He brings a distinguished background in open source and technology management to Open-Xchange.

Before Geck joined Open-Xchange, he spent 10 years with Suse Linux as Vice president Technology Partners and CTO. He built strong alliances with AMD, Fujitsu-Siemens-Computers, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Intel, Oracle and SAP and introduced in 2002 Suse's Technology Partner Program to provide a scalable offering for all Suse partners.

As CTO, Geck was instrumental in designing Suse's flagship product, Suse Linux Enterprise Server and its maintenance model, enabling the first enterprise Linux offering in the market. Geck is also one of the founders of Eclipse.org. Geck holds a masters degree in production engineering from the University of Erlangen, Germany.