Professor at Munich University of Applied Sciences since 2003 and has many years of experience as a consultant and trainer. He studied mathematics at the University of Ulm and subsequently managed projects at FAW Ulm as well as the area of health telematics. He was then responsible for knowledge management at well-known management consultancies. His focus is on start-up consulting, knowledge and innovation management as well as the design and implementation of systems that enable the efficient handling of information. He is a juror in the Munich Business Plan Competition as well as the author of numerous specialist articles and initiator of the working group for innovation management, which has existed since 2009.