The doctor of business administration completed a technical apprenticeship, then completed an education for electrical engineering and an MBA program. The positions of the Upper Austrian at A1 range from technical areas in fixed and mobile communications, to management of channel marketing and customer development in wholesale, to management of fixed-network strategy planning, to the position of divisional manager of corporate process management and director of portfolio and project management. In addition to his professional activity, he has completed several training courses and has always chosen a focus in the areas of strategy, human resources and organization, whereby he is particularly enthusiastic about agile working methods.