Chairman of EFPI

1956   born in Bremen/Germany
1979   graduation as MBA
1979 - 1996  first as employee, later as managing partner
              Messrs. Carl Ed. Meyer, import & export trading
             hourse for cork-, timber- and laminated floorings
1997  General Manager of F.W. Neukirch, international forwarding
1998-2006 General Manager of Amorim Wood Supplies, central purchasing company of the Portuguese Amorim Group
2004-2006 President of EFPI, European Federation of Parquet Importers
2007-today a) independent consultant of the parquet industry
                     b) free lance editor of the German Parkett Magazin and Parquet International
since 2008  again President of EFPI