Steffan Sondermark Fallesen

Steffan Sondermark Fallesen
Born (1981-05-07) May 7, 1981
Vejen, Denmark
Residence Solitüde (Mürwik), Flensburg, Germany
Nationality Danish
Occupation Investor
Net worth $20 million (2015)
Spouse(s) Patricia Søndermark
Website Steffan Sondermark Fallesen

Steffan Søndermark Fallesen (born 1981) is an Internet entrepreneur. He founded Servage Hosting (one of Germany's largest hosting companies[1]) which he initiated immediately after moving to Flensburg.[2] He sold Servage Hosting[3] to the Swedish firm Tele5 Voice Services AB in May 2007 for $3.5 million cash[4] and left the company in October 2009. Recent activity have been in Investment Banking, 2015 net worth is estimated to be in excess of $20 million.[5]

During his teenage years he build a portfolio of websites in his native language such as popular chat sites and a free email service similar to Hotmail. For years these properties were hugely popular and ranged between the most visited sites in Denmark. After identifying problem with the Java implementation in Microsoft Windows he was able to exploit this bug to identify cyber criminals, even while using proxy servers. This system is known to have been actively used by the Danish Security and Intelligence Service (PET) and likely other entities.


References

  1. "Top Web Hosts Germany". WebHosting.Info. Retrieved 2009-09-20.
  2. "OpenSRS Meet the resellers". Tucows Inc.
  3. "Swedish IT and telephony services provider Tele5 Voice Services AB acquires German web hosting company Servage GmbH". BNET Business Network. 2007-05-16.
  4. "Cheval Capital Pressrelease". Cheval Capita Inc. Archived from the original on 2008-10-17.
  5. "Personal Blog of Steffan Fallesen".


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