Johannes is the visionary behind NetMesh and the original creator of the NetMesh technology portfolio. Before starting NetMesh, he was founder, CEO, and Chief Architect of Aviatis Corp., a venture-backed Silicon Valley startup that provided distributed engineering tools.

A native of Germany, he came to California in 1995 to work for Integrated Systems, an embedded software vendor since merged with Wind River Systems. Previously, he had been with BMW Engineering in Munich, Germany, and FZI, from where he consulted for a large German automotive consortium on distributed product development processes.