Bernhard Frohwitter is co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of ParTec, where he has been instrumental in advancing modular supercomputing architectures that today underpin some of Europe’s most powerful high-performance computing systems. Trained as both an engineer and a lawyer in Munich, Germany, he has built his career at the intersection of advanced technology, intellectual property, and long-term industrial strategy.
He began his engineering career as Captain in the German Air Force, and in 1974 at Messerschmitt-Bölkow-Blohm (MBB), where he worked on aerospace systems including satellite solar array deployment mechanisms. These systems had to function flawlessly on first deployment, shaping his enduring engineering philosophy of reliability, precision, and systemic design.
In 1982 he co-founded the patent law firm Bardehle & Partners, one of the leading intellectual property firms. In 1998 he founded Frohwitter Intellectual Property Counselors, specializing in the protection and commercialization of high-technology patents across Europe and the United States. In 2007 he co-founded IPCom GmbH & Co. KG, to commercialize the mobile phone patent portfolios of Bosch and Hitachi whose mobile communications patent portfolio generated nearly €1.5 billion in global licensing revenues.
At ParTec, Frohwitter has applied the same long-term engineering mindset to high-performance computing. Long before modular system architectures became widely recognized as essential, he championed modular, evolvable supercomputing infrastructures rather than ever-larger monolithic machines. This vision ultimately shaped ParTec’s patented Dynamic Modular System Architecture (dMSA), to which he contributed as Inventor together with Thomas Lippert, which today underpins some of Europe’s most powerful supercomputers and advanced computing infrastructures.
Under his leadership, ParTec has become a key contributor to Europe’s HPC ecosystem, enabling large-scale systems designed for scientific discovery, industrial innovation, and technological sovereignty.
Frohwitter is driven not by short-term exits but by the long-term ambition to build the computing infrastructures that will power the next era of scientific discovery and technological progress.
