Electronic engineer

Skills: General electronic development, mechanics, piezo motor technology, music, sound, ultrasonic generators, software.

Before Creaholic: Co-founded Vinylium GmbH – which is part engineering company, a vinyl pressing plant, a recording studio and a museum www.vinylium.ch  I left the company in 2005. I also worked at the HTA Biel in the laboratory of industrial electronics on the development of solar powered projects.

Origin: Solothurn, Switzerland. My ancestors were farmers and watchmakers and most of them emigrated to USA.

Languages: German, English, French

Hobbies: Music, sound, old technical delights. I play experimental music on homemade instruments all over the world. I like to find old technical treasures at flea markets. Autarkic housing.

Books: F.Glauser: Der Tee der drei alten Damen. Co-op by Upton Sinclair.

Films: The Trial - Orson Welles and Matchpoint by Woody Allen.

Music: old 60’s jazz records on my turntable.

Artists: John Heartfield and Robert Rauschenberg.

Inventors: Leon Theremin, Thomas A. Edison, Nikola Tesla.

Favourite place: To watch the sunrise in Berlin.

Nobody knows: I survived an alien hijack. I was also a member of the Grenchen Ski-Club in 1980.