Walter H. MAYER is farmer (BSc) and forester (MSc) by education and founder and CEO of  PROGIS Software GmbH. He has been also involved in the PC hard- and software since 1978 and was with his company distributor of Apple and Acer in Austria. From 1994 Mr. Mayer started to develop within PROGIS the GIS (= Geografical Information Systems) WinGIS incl. many applications for agriculture, forestry, environment and natural risk management. As a result of his long lasting experience since 1983 as consultant for ecology, agriculture and forestry – he is also running his own agro/forest enterprise as well as heading 5.000 ha enterprises in this field – he introduced with WinGIS-AGROffice a complete new model of an integrated and GIS based agro/forestry software to handle beside private farmers/forest enterprises (FMM) also advisors and governments EDP needs, logistics, traceability, precise farming, ecology, risk management, land consolidation  and also other horizontal and vertical market needs for managing complete countries.

Mr. Mayer has close contacts to scientists, researchers and key players on a global basis and is a pioneer and opinion leader in the evolving market of “environment-ecology-agriculture-forestry-food” with close contacts to the public sector and the private industry.