Pioneering German software Company Native Instruments celebrated its 10th anniversary earlier this year, with a massive celebration in its native Berlin, and a suite of new hardware products and updates to its now legendary effect and instrument plug-in line. Company CEO Daniel Haver, a former graphics and web design specialist from Hamburg, has been with the company since 1997, directing the firm toward DJ-oriented programs like Traktor and providing the strategic decisions behind products like Battery, Reaktor and today’s innovative Kore and Audio Kontrol hardware boxes. —DAVID ROMAN