Executive Leadership
Managing Director and operational leadership responsibility across various corporate situations - with accountability for people, markets, structures, and results. Shaped by international markets, diverse corporate cultures, and the alignment of strategic decision-making with operational implementation.
Transformation & Operations
Experience in change and transitional situations, reorganisation, and operational implementation. Adapting structures, clarifying responsibilities, and securing the ability to act when companies face particular challenges.
Sales & Market Development
Long-standing leadership responsibility in sales, exports, and business development. Understanding markets, identifying potential, creating structures, and developing customer relationships - both for domestic and international sectors.
International Business
More than three decades of international business experience in diverse markets and cultures - from exports and market development to market entry and the build-up and further development of international business relations and structures.
Values & Philosophy
Experience
For me, experience means more than the sum of professional stages. It arises from responsibility, decisions, successes, difficult situations, and collaboration with people in various companies, markets, and cultures. It helps to contextualise situations and distinguish the essential from the trivial.
Responsibility
Responsibility begins where a decision has consequences. Those who take responsibility must explain their decisions, stand by them, and support their implementation. Titles and positions are secondary - what matters is the responsibility associated with a task.
Humanity
Companies consist of structures, figures, and processes - but they are sustained by people. Respect, reliability, clear communication, and fair interaction are not additions to good leadership, but rather its very foundation.
BEYOND THE CV
"Some experiences never appear on a CV."
Walt Disney World Speedway · Florida · 2001
Some experiences stay with you – even after 25 years. In 2001, I was in Florida with my daughter, who was three at the time, and took the opportunity to drive a NASCAR racing car myself at the Walt Disney World Speedway.
After the briefing, I headed onto the track – following an instructor who set the pace. For American standards, it was fast; for a German with Autobahn experience, it could certainly have been a bit more. It ended at around 116 mph. I repeatedly tried via radio to encourage my instructor to pick up the pace – without success. Overtaking was not permitted.
What stayed in my memory particularly was the immediate feel for the vehicle: a few centimetres from the concrete wall, the racing tyres literally bonded to the asphalt, and a precision that one never experiences in normal road traffic.
Even getting in through the window, the safety netting, the harnesses, and the fire extinguisher made it clear: this was no ordinary car.
An experience of speed, concentration, and a good portion of fun – and a memory that remains to this day.
Petra · Jordan
Actually, the journey began somewhere else entirely: with diving in Northern Egypt and Taba. I was the only German travelling with a Polish tour group and initially understood hardly a word. With hands, feet, and good intentions, communication worked surprisingly well nonetheless – and above all, we had a lot of fun together.
Friends were also with us. Over the years, friendship became family – today I am a godfather. A connection that has remained far beyond this shared journey.
From there, a day trip led me to Jordan. I desperately wanted to see Petra for myself. The history of this place had fascinated me for a long time – and of course, I knew the famous setting from Indiana Jones.
Particularly memorable is the path through the narrow gorge of the Siq. You walk between the high rock walls until suddenly the first view of the Treasury opens up.
Pictures can capture this moment – but can hardly convey how impressive it is to suddenly stand before this massive facade, carved directly from the rock, after the long path through the gorge.
For me, Petra was therefore more than a famous travel destination. It was one of those moments where history, landscape, and one's own journey become a memory that stays.
Diving · Another World
SSI Open Water · PADI Rescue Diver · Tec Diver
For me, diving has something special. As soon as I submerge below the water's surface, the world changes. It becomes quiet, movements grow slower, and much of what still seemed important above is simply left behind.
Under water, I automatically concentrate on the essentials: on the surroundings, my own breath, and what is happening right in front of me. When a shark then accompanies me for a stretch, a Napoleon wrasse suddenly appears, or I simply observe life on the reef, daily stress is remarkably far away. For me, it is one of the most beautiful ways to truly switch off.
Over time, I didn't just want to experience this world, but also to understand it better and better. From SSI Open Water to PADI Rescue Diver and Tec Diver, I have therefore expanded my training step by step. It was never about collecting as many certifications as possible. I wanted to become safer, more capable, and experience dives that go beyond normal recreational diving.
On my travels, diving has led me to very different places. Some dives were spectacular, others simply silent and beautiful. and sometimes it is precisely the unspectacular moments that remain in the memory for a particularly long time.
Perhaps it is exactly this mixture that fascinates me about diving to this day: the calm, the concentration on the moment, the encounters with animals in their own world – and the feeling of simply being a guest under water for a while.