2011	Founding Partner, Quaternion Risk Management Ltd, Dublin
2010	Head of Risk Control, IKB Deutsche Industriebank AG, Düsseldorf
2008	Head of Market Risk Control & Operations, IKB Deutsche Industriebank AG, Düsseldorf
2004	Group Head of Market Risk Control, DEPFA plc, Dublin
2002	Group Head of IT, DEPFA BANK plc, Frankfurt
2001	Head of IT Treasury Products (front to back), DePfa Deutsche Pfandbriefbank AG, Wiesbaden
1999	Head of IT Front Office, DePfa Deutsche Pfandbriefbank AG, Wiesbaden
1997	Treasury Asset/Liability Management, DePfa Deutsche Pfandbriefbank AG, Wiesbaden
1994-1997	PhD thesis work, Max-Planck-Institut für Quantenoptik, München
	Thesis title: "Relativistische Wechselwirkung kurzer Laserpulse mit überdichten Plasmen: Erzeugung hoher Harmonischer"
	Dr. rer. nat. from TU München: Mit Auszeichnung (with distinction)
1988-1994	Physics Studies at RWTH Aachen
	Diploma thesis title: "Simulation zweidimensionaler Diffusion in Systemen mit absorbierenden und reflektierenden Randbedingungen"
	Diploma in Physics: Mit Auszeichnung (with distinction)
1987-1988	Military service
1987	Abitur: 1.3
1967	born in Krefeld-Hüls, 27 November 1967

languages:

• German (native)
• English (fluent)
• French/Spanish (basic)

computers:

• Development in C and C++, shell scripts (ksh, csh, awk, sed), SQL
• Unix operating systems (Solaris, AIX, Linux, Mac OS X)

hobbies:

• Music: playing Saxophone since 1983 (Linos Saxophon Quartett), Clarinet until 1983
• Literature
• Sports: Squash, Badminton, Jogging, Diving
• Financial modeling, QuantLib