Sylvia Schwab co-founded Ontopia in 2000 and currently holds the position of the Product Manager for Ontopia's flagship product, the Ontopia Knowledge Suite.

Prior to joining Ontopia Sylvia worked for fours years as a Project Manager and Information Architect for STEP GmbH in Germany and STEP Infotek in Norway. She was responsible for the management and execution of projects involving document management solutions, as well as consulting projects in XML-based information process re-engineering.

Sylvia is trained as a the computer scientist from the University of Applied Science in Würzburg, Germany.