Description: Georg Petschnigg is an executive, entrepreneur, and product leader. He feels most comfortable at the intersection of design, technology, and business.
Previously as WeTransfer’s Chief Innovation Officer and General Manager in the Americas, he was part of creating the WeTransfer Pro subscription service for creatives to help gather, shape, and share their ideas.
Georg co-founded FiftyThree in 2011 and served as CEO until WeTransfer’s acquisition in 2018. FiftyThree are the makers of Paper® , the celebrated sketching app for getting ideas down, Paste® the fastest way for teams to share and gather around their ideas, and Pencil , the award-winning digital stylus. Internationally recognized for design excellence and innovation, they’ve received awards from Apple, IDSA, Communication Arts, and IxDA. FiftyThree’s products reach more than 30 Million creative thinkers wor
At Microsoft he co-founded the Pioneer Studios, a design venture fund, where he led the incubation of Microsoft Courier the foldable tablet and other mobile products. He was part of the first online version of Office, and developed the new graphic system in PowerPoint, Word, Excel.