I served since then more than 20 years as senior technology executive with influential leadership in different areas.
Starting my professional career as assistant professor and finished my PhD thesis in aerospace engineering in 1999.
Served at Fairchild Dornier in Oberpfaffenhofen as head of the flight physics team for the Do 728 and later on became the chief engineer for the whole 70-seater jet aircraft development program.
I joined Airbus in 2003 as VP and chief engineer for the A330/340 program ensuring the safety of the flying fleet. Further positions at Airbus included the program management for the A350 carbon fibre fuselage and SVP for freighter conversion centre at the Airbus subsidiary EFW in Dresden.
I joined Suzlon in 2010 as VP for Program Management and Product Policy and as of 2012 as President Technology and MD of Suzlon Energy GmbH heading the technology and the program management teams of the Indian wind turbine OEM in India, Germany, The Netherlands and Denmark.
In 2018 I co-created CertX the first Swiss certification body for functional safety and security located in the canton of Freiburg (Fribourg) close to Bern.

CertX is the first Swiss certification body for functional safety, artificial intelligence, and cyber security. We provide inspections and certifications of products, AI based systems as well as management processes and systems. We share our knowledge in trainings and certify your staff for engagement in safety and security critical developments. We are among the very few accredited certification bodies for operational cybersecurity and we are as well recognized in the EU for independent safety assessments in the railway domain and type approvals for CE conformity of industrial machinery. Our certificates are recognized worldwide based on the accreditation by the governmental Swiss Accreditation Services. We are the Swiss delegates active in various standardization committees for safety, security and artificial intelligence defining upcoming new regulations and standards. CertX is providing certification services with Swiss quality, pragmatism, confidentiality and neutrality. CertX clients benefit worldwide from the know-how of our experts on safety and security thus demonstrating legal compliance and minimizing product liability internationally.