Not just international. Formed by the world.
Since the late 60s I've lived in a different country every four to five years. Not as an expatriate, not as a traveller. As a resident: learning the language, finding my way into the culture, building life from scratch each time. That isn't a line on a CV. It's how I see.
A life in motion
Europe has been home for most of it. I've also lived and worked in the Philippines, done business in South Africa, and have ties that reach to Canada, the US and Australia. What you learn early that way: identity is plural, context shapes everything, and the most interesting perspectives sit where cultures meet rather than at the centre of any one.
That's what I bring to the work. When I look at a market, I don't start with a framework. I read it, the way you learn to read places, people and systems from the inside.
Three values. One worldview.
Humanitas - Humanity
People first. In commercial strategy, in technology, in every partnership. I judge a decision by what it does to the people it touches, and I bring the same rigour to that as to the numbers.
Practical creative intelligence. Finding the angle others miss and turning complex technology into commercial reality. Cleverness only counts when it leads somewhere.
Ingenium - Ingenuity
Universitas - Wholeness & Universality
For me this has three sides: a European identity, a global outlook and, above all, the conviction that everything is connected. People, markets, technology and ecology form one system, in a balance you can watch in nature. No decision stands alone.
Building, commercially and personally
My career runs through industrial technology, energy infrastructure, mobility and AI strategy, across European and global markets. The relationships I build tend to last: patient, structured, and based on a real understanding of what the other side needs.
Selected milestones:
Revenue responsibility of around €15M in energy-infrastructure pipeline development at AST International (2022–2023)
OEM partnership expansion in e-mobility and hydrogen sensing across global markets
C-level strategic advisory in Asia (Tom Oliver Group, 2018), contributing to a 60% net profit increase within six months
Certified AI Manager (AZAV, 2025)
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AJG Strategy & Navigation is my independent practice: connector mandates and strategic advisory. Both rest on one idea. The best commercial outcomes come from seeing the whole system and keeping the people at the centre of every deal in view.
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Based in Germany · working across Europe and beyond.
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