Born: March 27th 1969, Germany
Academic Career: Metallurgical Engineer
Master Degree in Metallurgy, University of Aachen, Germany
PhD in Business Economics, University of Leoben, Austria

Eighteen years with ThyssenKrupp in the carbon and stainless steel division. First six years as production engineer then move to procurement activities. In ThyssenKrupp’s Stainless Steel division responsible for procurement for AST in Terni, Italy and for nickel alloy producer VDM, Werdohl, Germany. In 2011 he became CPO for the business area Stainless.

After closing of the merger between Inoxum and Outokumpu beginning of 2013, he became Senior Vice President Raw Material Procurement for Outokumpu.