ABOUT ME
Experienced Board Member and Business Advisor with Extensive Network
I am a board member and advisor with in-depth business understanding across various industries and sectors. As a creative director specializing in business communication, I blend design skills with business intelligence to develop impactful and innovative solutions.
My extensive network and experience stem from collaborations with several listed and growth companies, where I have significantly contributed to their strategic vision and success.
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Welcome to my blog. As an expert in management, communication, and board governance, and a gentleman with a dedicated style, I’m here to blend lifestyle and business insights.
At today’s outdoor gym session, my reflection from the Bloomberg Intelligence pod: innovation delayed is leadership deferred
At today’s outdoor gym session, my reflection from the pod was this:on Bloomberg Intelligence, the conversation around Apple’s reliance on Google,...
From Global Assertiveness to Domestic Reality: The U.S. Heading Into 2026
With the snow gone again, it’s time to enter my outdoor gym, now with a U.S. outlook. In 2025, the United States has exerted strong influence on...
Where Wine, Symbols, and Civilization Meet
As I was about to open a Spätburgunder from Wiesbaden, my attention was unexpectedly drawn to the fleur-de-lis on the bottle cap. The fleur-de-lis...
Geopolitics is absolutely a subject we must understand in business
Geopolitics is absolutely a subject we must understand in business. I have done my homework for a long time. This series of podcasts is a stream of...
When Silence Speaks: How a New York Times Podcast Captured Iran’s Communication Blackout
As it is wintertime, I am forced to use my home gym—so far, even tonight. What is usually just a regular training session was changed today by The...
The Spectator presented its Year in Review
At yesterday’s outdoor kettlebell session, in temperatures close to zero degrees Celsius, I thought it was cold as ice — much like British politics...
Eltville by night
Eltville by night, this market town and true capital of Riesling, feels like a fairytale town. With every cobblestone street you walk, you drift...
New friends at Fleschner Michaela Gutsausschank Schneck
On a cobblestone street in Eltville, we noticed a small sign pointing to a restaurant at Weingut Klaus Fleschner, so discreet it was almost...
Oh, what journeys they were to Germany
Oh, what journeys they were to Germany.They began just after the summer, with days along the River Rhine, as the warm atmosphere kissed our skin,...
Richard and Yalda are making remarkable podcasts at Sky News
Richard and Yalda are creating truly remarkable podcasts at Sky News. In particular, The World with Richard Engel and Yalda Hakim stands out for its...
Wishing everyone a Merry Christmas
You are standing quietlybeneath the festival Ferris wheel,as I run toward your heart,just to be near,to feel like Christmas never ends. As you fall...
Christmas matins
Christmas matins, when Christmas Day dawns in shimmer.
You lift me up to the crucial top
Thanks to the special one. Without her support in business, I would be nothing. You lift me upTo the crucial top, so I can see When Saturday arrives...
This is how to organize a board trip in Europe—endless, endless, endless
After board meeting in Germany. Standing in the shadow of St. Martin’s Cathedral on Marktplatz in Mainz, I turned to you and said, “Oh, Vienna…”In...
Design should be universal, functional, and built from pure geometry
Guten Morgen.There’s something special about signage, Germany, and the design culture that shaped them. Much of it is rooted in the Bauhaus...
Served at the marvelous Wine in the Hood
As we say Guten Abend, allow us to present the wines: Black Pin – Spätburgunder, trocken, Stiftsweingut Frank Meyer, Gleiszellen, Pfalz and Cuvée...
I’m getting along very well with the local wine farmers
I’m getting along very well with the local wine farmers at the wine bar in the Market Hall in Frankfurt. Whenever I order a 0.2 glass, they...
Taking a board to a living workshop
Watching modern art by Arman, especially his Accumulation Renault, reveals this connection in action. A central figure of the Nouveau Réalisme...
Frankfurts U-Bahn-Stationen
Frankfurts U-Bahn-Stationen. A woman walking in a subway station corridor.
There are moments when a city walk requires emotional pauses
There are moments when a city walk requires emotional pauses. Moments when you simply cannot move forward without reconnecting to something greater...