Not Afraid of Heights
Roberto Fiebig –CEO
Roberto is Climbtech’s Chief Executive Officer. He is also deathly afraid of heights.
Prior to Climbtech, Roberto was the Managing Partner of Austin Management Partners –a boutique private equity firm providing growth capital to small and medium businesses as well as consulting and business expansion services.
Prior to joining AMP, Roberto spent 9 years at Dell in a number of Finance, Marketing and Strategy roles. Prior to joining Dell, Roberto worked as a consultant at A.T Kearney in Berlin, Germany. Before this he spent 6 years at Hoechst Celanese in Mexico City where he held various corporate finance roles. His native language is Spanish and he is fluent in German.
Roberto holds an M.B.A. from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, an M.A. in International Business from the Lauder Institute at the University of Pennsylvania and an B.Sc. in Industrial Engineering from the Monterrey Institute of Technology in Mexico.
Karl Guthrie –Founder, Head of Sales
Climbtech co-founder Karl has been a fanatical rock climber for over 35 years and a self-employed business professional for 25. His climbing accomplishments have been featured in Rock and Ice magazine. His innovative products have won multiple awards in that publication and others.
Before founding ClimbTech, Karl and cofounder Joseph Schwartz created another company, GO-PRO, which manufactured climbing equipment in the mid 80’s. Through GO-PRO, the team established a strong reputation, as well as many relationships that continue to hold strong at Climb-Tech.
Karl’s passion for rock climbing and focus on safety innovation led him to apply rock climbing technology to fall protection solutions for the Industrial Safety and Fall Protection industry. At Climbtech, Karl leverages his industry connections and product expertise to lead marketing and sales. He currently resides with his wife in Austin, TX.
Joseph Schwartz –Founder, Head of Product Development
ClimbTech co-founder Joseph started climbing in high school with Karl 35 years ago. Born with a gift for mechanical aptitude, he was the principal automotive mechanic for Chris Zootis Performance Center prior to founding ClimbTech. During his five year stretch as a race car mechanic, Joe was given the nick name Lucky due to his consistent and reliable performance.
Joseph applied his mechanical aptitude to bringing mountaineering technology to public safety in the eighties, when he co-invented his first product, the Roller Chock, with Karl. Over the past 25 years, Joseph has developed the processes and tooling required to take an idea from conception through the design stages to a marketable finished product. At ClimbTech Joe is famous for envisioning solutions to “unsolvable” design challenges in the oddest of times and places. He thrives on coming up with solutions that stump the engineers in the largest fall protection companies in the world. He lives in Wimberley Texas, with his two teenage children.
