25 years of experience in executive positions of the fine chemicals industry and petrochemical / refinery industry.

	Managing Director of Chemetall GmbH including responsibility for the Lithium business unit
		Business reengineering, productivity improvement and technical process improvement projects
	Head of Business Unit Special Chemistry and Custom Manufacturing at Dynamit Nobel GmbH
		M&A-experience from acquisitions and divestments
	Sales and Marketing Manager Olefins and Aromatics of UK Wesseling AG

	Project Manager technical planning of DEA Mineraloel AG
		Responsibility for technical optimisations and planning of technical investments (Capex)

	MS and PhD in Chemistry (Diploma and Dr. rer. nat., RWTH Aachen and University of Bonn, Germany)
	Participant of Columbia Senior Executive Program (1998), Columbia University, NY, USA