Professional Experience

High Performance Director, Belgian Olympic and Interfederal Committee, Brussels, Belgium (2018 until today)

• Chef de Mission of Belgian Olympic Team at Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 and Olympic Winter Games Beijing 2022

• Policymaking for long term development of high performance sports in Belgium

• Member of Steering Committee and Taskforce Topsport, Sport Vlaanderen

 

Head of Department, German Olympic Sports Confederation, Frankfurt, Germany (2012 - 2018)

Deputy Chef de Mission of German Olympic team at Olympic Winter Games Sochi 2014 and Olympic Winter Games Pyeongchang 2018

Member of German Olympic team London 2012 and Rio 2016

Providing athletes and coaches with service and support (i.e. medical care, physiotherapy, psychology, dual career consulting, nutrition, physiology, biomechanics) through highly qualified staff during and between the Olympic Games

Board Member of the Olympic Support Centers Berlin, Brandenburg, Chemnitz/Dresden, Freiburg/Schwarzwald, Hamburg/Schleswig-Holstein, Leipzig, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Metropolregion Rhein-Neckar, Rheinland, Rheinland-Pfalz/Saarland, Rhein-Ruhr, Sachsen-Anhalt, Stuttgart, Thüringen and of Olympic and Paralympic Training Center Kienbaum 

Developed and established benchmarking system and index of total quality management for Olympic support centers

Restructured the Olympic Support Centers in Germany

Long-term personnel development

Developed and established concept of young elite performance 2020

 

Manager, German Olympic Sports Confederation, Frankfurt, Germany (2007 - 2012)

• Member of German Olympic Team Vancouver 2010

• Licenced institutes of sports medicine for examining German athletes, quality management

• Organised clinics for physicians, physiotherapists, psychologists & nutritionists

• High expertise in anti-doping related matters

 

Personal assistant of sports director/national head coach swimming, German swimming federation, Kassel, Germany (2005 - 2007)

• Established training data documentation and analysis

• Coordinated staff of German national swimming team during training camps and competitions

 

Manager, German Swimming Federation, Kassel, Germany (2001 - 2005)

• Educated coaches in teaching swimming

 

• Published book about teaching swimming