| Curriculum Vitae: | - 10/2002: President / Representative Managing Director at NEC SCHOTT Components Corporation, Minakuchi, Japan
- 1/2001 - 9/2002: General Manager Administration, Finance & Controlling at NEC SCHOTT Components Corporation, Minakuchi, Japan
- 7/1999 - 12/2000: Research Associate at the German Institute for Japanese Studies, Tokyo, Japan
- 7/1996 - 6/1999: Senior Executive Managing Director at Trumpf Corporation, Yokohama, Japan
- 10/1995 - 6/1996: Manager Japan Desk at Trumpf GmbH & Co, KG, Ditzingen Germany
- 5/1995 - 9/1995: Sabbatical / field research for doctoral thesis
- 6/1990 - 4/1995: Management Consultant at Roland Berger & Partner Japan (Now: Roland Berger Strategy Consultants), Tokyo, Japan
- 7/1997: Ph.D. in Economic Studies (Dr. Rer. Oec.) at the Faculty for Economic Studies, Chair for East Asian Economic Studies, University Duisburg/Essen (Prof. Werner Pascha)
- 6/1990: Master Degree (Dipl. Rer. Oec.) in Business Administration at the Ruhr-University, Bochum, Germany
- 10/1987 - 6/1990: Study business administration at Ruhr-University, Bochum, Germany
- 4/1985 - 9/1987: Study business administration at Ludwig Maximilians University, Munich, Germany
- 4/1983 - 9/1984: Study Japanese language at Keio University, Tokyo, Japan
- 10/1981 - 3/1983: Study Japanese Studies at Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich, Germany
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