“If you always do what you’ve always done, you’ll always get what you’ve always got.”
Henry Ford

Growing up in the Aachen region as the son of a French mother and a German father, I got it early in the cradle – the savoir vivre paired with discipline and thoroughness. Curiosity and interest in other people and cultures have driven me out into the world, both professionally and privately.

Nevertheless, I have remained true to the Rhineland. Today I live here with my wife, my two children and three chickens. In my free time I like to be active: hiking, tennis, golf, skiing and recently gravel biking.

With almost 20 years of professional experience in retail, 15 of them at METRO, I can justifiably claim to have learned retail from the bottom up. I have successfully revised and rebuilt assortments, conducted countless purchasing negotiations. And how many shelves I have personally stocked in recent years as part of new concepts or store remodels!

But I am far from being operationally blind.

Numerous national and international projects, as well as my time within the Category Management & Procurement department at zooplus, the No. 1 European e-commerce company for pet food, have provided me with the necessary perspective.