Started career as software developer in bleeding edge Internet projects for Finance and Automotive industries. During those dived deeply into designing large scale enterprise portal architectures.
Later switched to business consultancy and project management assignments and learned a lot about organization development  and multi-cultural international collaboration.

Marquardt Group is a family enterprise headquartered in Germany. It is a manufacturer in the field of electro-mechanical and electronic switches and switching systems. Its systems are found in household appliances and other industrial applications. The company has 9,300 employees worldwide at 18 locations in 14 countries on four continents. The annual turnover is 1,1 billion Euros.