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Klaus Maier (born in 1965) was the founder of KaMai-Computersystems, Hydrapark GmbH, a co-founder of NComputing Inc. and is the founder and CEO of Virtualaze GmbH Europe. He is recognized as a German entrepreneur focusing on new innovative Virtualization Infrastructure software platforms. In 1988, Maier launched KaMai-Computersystems, a local IT system integrator and in September 1994 he founded Hydrapark GmbH, a German based Virtualization Software development company where he and his various development teams invented “NetMaker”, a NETBIOS compatible PC peer-to-peer network software and after that the team invented the first direct video drive Multi-User technology (One PC – many users, simultaneously) under MS-DOS, Windows 3.1(1), Windows98, Windows ME and Windows 2000 Server Edition. In the following years Maier worked on a System on Chip hardware and Virtual Desktop Software platform development. In 2003 he joined and co-founded NComputing, which started its business in South Korea and ended its business in the USA in 2015. At this time at NComputing Klaus Maier was a leading force & inventor of multiple System on chip, ASIC hardware platforms and a virtual desktop solutions for Windows Desktop and Windows Server operating systems. By 2014 NComputing was the number one Thin Client vendor in Asia-Pacific and the third biggest Thin-Client vendor worldwide (IDC) with over 70,000 education and business customers and more than 20 million daily users in over 140 countries. During his time at NComputing Inc, the company raised more than 60 Million US-Dollars from leading Silicon Valley Venture Capital companies - Scale Venture Partners (formerly Bank of America), Menlo Ventures, Daehong Technew Corporation and Questmark Partners. Here, Klaus Maier held the position e.g. Chief Technology Officer (CTO) and Chief Software Architect. Maier was also the largest individual private shareholder beside several institutional US venture capital partners. In 2008 Maier stepped down as CTO of NComputing at the end of the management buyout, but remained a private shareholder until NComputing ceased trading. In January 2009 Maier announced that he would focus all of his energies on a new virtualization technology software solution and this is when Virtualaze GmbH Europe, a private held German software development company was born. During this career Maier has filed multiple worldwide computer software patents.