I am the President of WINGENS International Industry Consultancy in Pittsburgh, USA and Stuttgart, Germany. I graduated and hold my engineering degree (Dipl.-Ing.) in material science from the University of Applied Science in Dortmund/Germany and a MBA from the University of Economy and Management in Stuttgart/Germany. I started my professional career in 1987 as a metallurgist and heat treater in the Thyssen Specialty Steel mill in Germany and have worked in management and executive positions at leading companies in the metal and heat treat Industry such as Bodycote, Ipsen, Tenova Group, Seco/Warwick, VTN/IHI Group and executed research projects with ThyssenKrupp Germany, Volvo Corporate Research Sweden and Böhler Voestalpine Steel Austria. I’m a member of ASM, HTS, AIST in the US and their equivalent societies in Germany (VDI, VDEH, AWT). I live with my wife Andrea and our two children in Sewickley (Pittsburgh), PA, USA.