In my 15+ years professional work experience, I designed, tested and managed consumer electronics products, embedded systems and web solutions – from initiation to market launch.

I had the opportunity to spend most of my career internationally, leveraging the benefits of cross-cultural work and local differentiation in Europe, United States, China and South East Asia.

As a manager of innovation and technology I strive to lead through open, agile and diverse team environments for engineering excellence focusing user needs and business benefits.

Specialties: • Open innovation management and Agile leadership
• Efficiency improvement
• New product development
• Customer relationship building / management
• Project troubleshooting and problem solving
• Leading distributed / multi-cultural teams
• Assimilating and communicating complex technical information

Gestigon revolutionizes the way in which we interact with our carss. We develop software for natural user interfaces based on gesture recognition with special focus on embedded systems, e.g. casual control in the area of the middle console or steering wheel as well as body tracking for a cocoon solution etc. gestigon is a company of the Valeo group.