The director of the operator-company learned the sport from the pike. Formerly a basketball player himself and owner of a trainer- and referees license of the DBB he early had a journalistic view of the sport. To his know-how belongs that he knows the sport basketball from all its perspectives: as an athlete, as a referee, as a coach, as a journalist and as an operative. From 2001 to 2016 he was the chairman of the committee for public relations at the German Federation. With his own sport agency he is responsible for the marketing of the national team today. In the years 2004 (Athen), 2008 (Beijing), 2012 (London) and 2016 (Rio de Janeiro) he operated as a press-attache for the national paralympic committee. In the years 2007 and 2013 he acted as the OK- respectively press spokesman for the Eurobasketball in Wetzlar and Frankfurt.