First built, then founded, now consulting.
A startup is best judged by someone who has been through one. Technology is best judged by someone who has built it. Thirty years of career, sorted by what counts for your work.
Founding and building
The experience the startup coaching is based on: my own company from prototype to series production.
- 2015 to 2019 Co-founder and COO, hardware startup for laser cutters From prototype to product, with production, logistics, suppliers, team and complaints. Financed through a crowdfunding campaign of 1.06 million US dollars.
- 2017 Co-author of the book „Lasercutting“ Carl Hanser Verlag.
- since 2019 Host of a founding and financing meetup in Munich Monthly. The best place to hear why startups actually fail.
Consulting and teaching
Where my own experience has become a method that has to prove itself on other people's projects.
- since 2021 Independent consultant Initially part-time, full-time since July 2024. Startups, business plans, financial plans, strategy and sales.
- since 2020 Guest lecturer at UnternehmerTUM In the Executive MBA programme of the Technical University of Munich, on forms of financing, business models and entrepreneurial key figures.
- 2011 to 2014 Project management and internal consulting in warranty management, Lufthansa Technik Setting up the warranty, guarantee and goodwill organisation towards manufacturers and suppliers, in a joint project with Germanwings.
Engineering, industry and quality
The basis for being able to judge technical projects: more than twenty years in businesses where a mistake costs more than money.
- 2020 to 2023 Process engineer in an ISO 9001 environment Quality management in practice, not from the textbook.
- 2007 to 2011 System engineer, Lufthansa Technik Responsible for navigation systems, autopilots and display instruments of short- and medium-haul aircraft.
- 2000 to 2007 Aircraft maintenance, Lufthansa Technik Skilled work on aircraft electronics. Documentation and proof are mandatory there, not a virtue.
- 1996 to 2000 Apprenticeship as an industrial electronics technician, equipment engineering Completed before the Chamber of Industry and Commerce (IHK) Frankfurt am Main, with parallel training in aircraft electronics.
Education and training
The formal basis, continuously supplemented by what consulting requires today.
- 2026 University certificate „Generative KI produktiv nutzen“ (using generative AI productively) Hochschule Hannover, including the legal module on the AI Act, GDPR and copyright.
- 2023 Certificate in additive manufacturing TUM Institute for LifeLong Learning.
- 2014 to 2017 Executive MBA, Technical University of Munich Focus Business Creation and Innovation. Parts of the programme at the Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley.
- 2003 to 2007 Diplom-Ingenieur (FH) in microelectronics and information technology Studied full-time, working part-time at weekends and during the semester breaks.
Whether this fits your project, you will find out fastest by asking.