Leading a growth company into a new order of magnitude with innovation in all aspects of the business system.

2004-today        MoneySwitch Limited        Sydney, Australia

Executive Director and CEO

1. ‣Invested into a start-up company incorporated 3 February 2003 by a group of technology people with a world class track record in switching and protocol conversion in the IBM, Cisco and Internet world.
   
   

2. ‣The company developed an open financial transaction switching and settling architecture that allows it as a member of the leading schemes like MasterCard and Visa and as a bank licensee of the Australian Prudential Authority to offer innovative and affordable payment solutions to Australian merchants and volume billers.
   
   

3. ‣Took on the challenge of developing the company into a significant player in the Australian financial services industry.
   

2002-2004        Sailing Yacht Alithia        Seven Seas

World Circumnavigator

1. ‣Constructed an award winning 40m High Performance Racer-Cruiser in aluminum and carbon fiber at Abeking & Rasmussen Germany.
   
   

2. ‣Sailed 40.000 nautical miles around the planet visiting with the family of five children, eight members crew and three teachers the most remote islands of the planet.
   
   

3. ‣Achieved with the brand new yacht a fourth place in the Millennium Cup at Auckland (NZ) against some of the world Americas Cup elite.
   

1997-2002            create.it services AG                   Düsseldorf, Germany

Chairman of the Board and CEO

1. ‣Incubated a family involvement site and a children learning center concept.
   
   

2. ‣Promoted the movement of new entrepreneurs in Germany at university, media and public policy level.
   
   

3. ‣Implemented successfully the concept phase of a revolutionary real-time visualization processor.
   

June 1998 - November 1998                                    Bonn, Germany

Shadow Minister of Economy and Technology

1. ‣Ran and managed the campaign as Federal Minister of Economy and Technology contributing significantly to the landslide victory of the first German government of Chancellor Gerhard Schröder.
   
   

2. ‣Renounced to the Office because of an unacceptable curtailing of the Ministry’s competences.
   

1996–1997            General Electric US                    Kerpen, Germany

President GE Capital Information Technology Solutions, Europe

1. ‣Led successfully the integration of the German system integrator CompuNet Computer AG into the worldwide GE organization.
   
   

2. ‣Integrated the incumbent former Control Data organization in the United Kingdom, Norway, Austria, Greece and Portugal.
   
   

3. ‣Managed acquisitions in the United Kingdom, France and Austria.
   

1984–1996            CompuNet Computer AG            Kerpen, Germany

Founder, Chairman of the Board and CEO

1. ‣Created a multi billion dollar system and network integrator serving the German corporate Fortune 500 market with PC and work station based IT solutions.
   
   

2. ‣Implemented a unique entrepreneurial corporate structure and multi-levered financing system allowing the company to double sales every year.
   
   

3. ‣Built an acclaimed brand, achieved recognition as the first most outstanding success story of the then called New Economy and represented a rejuvenated German entrepreneur movement in the public media.
   

1981–1984            Boston Consulting Group            Chicago, USA

Consultant

1. ‣Worked on a multitude of cases reaching from acquisition and marketing studies in the food processing industry in Germany and the US, to strategy development for a refrigeration company, a teaching hospital, a specialty chemical producer, to product launching for artificial sweeteners.
   
   

2. ‣Implemented a PC based marketing tool for the group and ran an extensive market test for a first entrepreneurial idea in the field of video distribution.
   

1981–1984            Prospective & Aménagement        Paris, France

Consultant

1. ‣Worked on a study analyzing the then highly acclaimed German small business administration policy for the Planning Office of the French government Raymond Barre.
   

1979–1981            Harvard Business School              Boston, USA

1. ‣Graduated with a Master of Business Administration.
   
   

2. ‣Put a highlight on finance during the second more elective year.
   

1977–1979            Institut des Sciences Politiques        Paris, France

1. ‣Graduated summa cum laude with a diploma in political sciences and a specialty in international relations.
   
   

2. ‣Published a thesis paper on East-West Trade doing field research in Indiana and Washington.
   

1976–1979            Université de Paris Assas                Paris, France

1. ‣Graduated with a Maitrise en Droit specializing in commercial and international law.
   

1974–1976            Université d’Aix-en-Provence            Aix, France

1. ‣Graduated with a Diplome des Etudes Universitaires Générales.
   

1973–1974            Deutsche Bundeswehr                       Hanover, Germany

1. ‣Military service with training in telecommunication and as reservist officer.
   

1972                       Stiftisches Gymnasium                     Düren, Germany

1. ‣High School certificate.
   

Very entrepreneurial, visionary and communicative character with a broad field of interests:

1. ‣Born January 17th, 1955 in Duesseldorf as son of a ministerial civil servant in the Finance Ministry and the only woman car dealer in Germany.
   
   

2. ‣Married to a Greek advertising executive, father of three boys and two girls.
   
   

3. ‣Speaking German, English and French totally fluent, some Spanish and Greek.
   
   

4. ‣Special interests include politics, political economy, sailing, traveling and exploring.
   
   

5. ‣Euromanager of the Year 1990 (Expansion and Impulse).
   
   

6. ‣Global Leader of Tomorrow (World Economic Forum, Davos).
   
   

7. ‣Member of the German Policy Committee Soziale Marktwirtschaft (Ludwig Erhard Stiftung, Bonn)