Since 2006
- Owner of the consulting office region + projekt located in Oberursel near Frankfurt / Main
- Since 2010 specialising in supporting regions and economic promotion initiatives in the design and implementation of their development goals
2007 – 2010
- Set-up and direction of the central office of „Logistik RheinMain. The Know-how Initiative” first at the Supply Chain Management Institute of EBS Business School in Wiesbaden and from 2009 in Frankfurt/Main-Gateway Gardens (as employee of EBS Business School)
- Represenation of Logistik RheinMain in the management board of the Gruendungsinitiative Frankfurt HOLM e. V. (House of Logistics and Mobility)
2001 – 2006
- Employment as a consultant for regional development and economic promotion with Regionomica GmbH in Berlin
- Assignments in the following fields: analysis of economic regions and cluster initiatives, coordination of cooperation projects with German and European regions, training programmes for south-east Asian junior executive managers
1994 – 2000
- Russian, business and English studies at Justus-Liebig-University Giessen (Germany), Kazan State University (Russia) and Loughborough University (Great Britain)
- Occupational activity, for example, in the field of the promotion of EU business cooperation, development of international academic partnerships and advisory services for scholarship holders
Voluntary work
- Forum of Self-Employed Persons in Oberursel
- RheinMainNetwork
- JOE Platform Berlin (Forum of Young Experts for Central and East Europe)


