General Manager Dipl.-Ing. Rainer Perthold

Rainer Perthold is co-founder and General Manager of the Innovationszentrum für Telekommunikationstechnik GmbH IZT. Previously, he worked as a research scientist for the Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits. Mr.Perthold and Fraunhofer Gesellschaft jointly founded IZT in 1997 as a commercial development and manufacturing affiliate. 

In 1999, he was awarded the "Joseph von Fraunhofer Award" for his technical contribution to the WorldSpace satellite system. In 2002, he was awarded the "Georg Waeber Innovation Award" for his contribution to compact transmitters for digital broadcasting.