Alexander Adolf received a Dipl.-Ing. (FH) degree in Data and Information Technology from the Georg-Simon Ohm University of Applied Sciences in Nuremberg (Germany) in 1995. After developing GSM terminals for Nortel, he entered the digital media industry in 1996 and joined BetaResearch as a Senior Software Developer. For BetaResearch, he helped in the commercial launch and operation of Premiere, the first digital pay-TV operator in the German speaking countries. In 1997, he joined the DVB TM-GBS technical working group, which he is chairing since 2000. From 2001 through 2009 he was with Micronas, a provider of application-specific semiconductor system solutions for consumer and automotive electronics, where he was heading the team for middleware and application software stacks.

Since 2010 he is working as an independent consultant for digital broadcast technology as the owner of Condition-ALPHA. As of April 2014, he is also chairing the DVB TM-CI-Plus technical working group. Mr. Adolf is a member of the Association of Engineers in Germany (VDI), and a senior member of the IEEE.