Dr Robert Zores has been CTO of the newly founded REWE Digital GmbH in Cologne since 2014. As a physicist, mathematician and computer scientist, he has many years of experience in the development of new technologies, particularly in the IT environment. After a career in the aerospace industry, he took on responsibility as an architect and CTO in various IT companies in the 1990s. At Sun Microsystems, he was co-responsible for parts of the JAVA development, which he later used successfully in hosting companies in the field of e-commerce.