A chief executive who learned the whole business, markets, capital, and the technology itself.

I build companies from the ground up and turn frontier technology into revenue. My path has been deliberately broad: I have carried a revenue number, built and led a large team, run a company single-handedly, and, when I had to, taught myself to write the software. That range is the point. It lets me sit with a board, a customer, and an engineer in the same afternoon and be useful to all three.

I grew up between Germany and the United States (secondary school at the Georg-Büchner-Gymnasium in Darmstadt, then high school and a degree in Psychology at Tennessee State University in Nashville), and I have built my career in the Netherlands. That mix left me comfortable moving between cultures and markets, which has mattered in every role since.

I started in media relations at TomTom for the German-speaking markets, then spent a decade at Globility Connect, where I joined as a junior account manager and built the company’s export division from nothing into its largest and most productive unit, forty-five people, and the majority of company sales. Along the way I founded UNAS, a video platform for charity and aid workers. When the outsourced build failed to deliver, I taught myself to code and finished it, the moment I became a technical founder.

In 2018 I went out on my own with Tekle B.V., an enterprise-IT firm supplying data-center and office hardware. Run entirely solo, it reached €19 million in annual turnover and became the largest Microsoft Surface partner in the Benelux. In 2020 I could see where display technology was heading, so I wound the business down and reinvested everything to found Tekle Holographics in 2021.