CTO, CeWe Color AG
Reiner Fageth studied electronic engineering at the Fachhochschule Heilbronn, Germany. He received a Ph.D. from the University of North Umbria at Newcastle, UK in 1994. The major research topics there and also for the following years were industrial image processing systems based on classification using fuzzy logic and neural networks.
In 1998 he joined CeWe Color with the change to drive the analogue photo business into digital. First he was responsible for R&D and the production of consumer’s digital files on silver halide paper. CeWe Color is Europe largest wholesale photofinisher producing more than 3 billion prints a year.
Applications to transfer these files via the Internet, kiosk systems in retail shops and mobile applications have been developed and introduced successfully into the market. Recently digital services have been extended to more complex products such as photo books. January 2007 he was appointed CTO of the company.