
The next career step was at Giesecke & Devrient to develop secure operating system for smart cards. Thereafter he moved on to SIEMENS Semiconductor (today Infineon) where he headed an application center for Security and Smart Card ICs. Later he moved to Singapore to head the Business Operation for the Asian market. In 2003 he took over the responsibility for the Business Unit Sensors in Infineon Technologies. Since 2009 he is heading the System Group Activities in the automotive division of Infineon with the focus on E-mobility.