Born in 1962, he received a call to the professorship for Information Management and Organization in the Institute of Management of the Department of Computer Science at the University of Koblenz-Landau at the Koblenz Campus at the beginning of 2007, which he had previously represented on a term since 2003.
From 2016 to 2019, he served as Vice President of the University of Koblenz-Landau, responsible for research, transfer, internationalization and digitalization.
Prior to his time at the University of Koblenz-Landau, he was a research assistant at the University of Kassel, a visiting researcher and project leader of the Business Research Group Innovative Technologies and Entrepreneurship at the University of Cologne, Academic Director of the Euro Business College in Bonn, lecturer at the Kassel International Management School (KIMS), and managing co-partner of InterScience GmbH from 2001 to 2008.
He has been the founder and sole shareholder of VonKor GmbH since 2006. He is also the founder and academic director of the School of Entrepreneurial Design Thinking® (ED-School; www.ed-school.com) and the Central Institute for Scientific Entrepreneurship & International Transfer (ZIFET; www.zifet.de) at the University of Koblenz-Landau.
Under his leadership, the University of Koblenz-Landau was the only university in Rhineland-Palatinate to be awarded the excellence title “Gründeruniversität” (University of Entrepreneurship) by the BMWi.
His current project on entrepreneurship seeks to build a bridge of start-up support between Germany and Rwanda (see www.starfrica.de).
After studying business administration at the University of Cologne, he completed his doctorate in 1993 as a research assistant and assistant professor at the Chair of General Business Administration and Organization Studies at the University of Cologne on the topic of “Computer Supported Organization Design”. In the meantime, he worked as a freelancer and consultant for the Business Administration Institute for Organization and Automation (BIFOA) at the University of Cologne. Following his doctorate, he spent a postdoctoral year at the Sloan School of Management of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T.), Cambridge, USA. This was followed by various project management positions at the Chair of Information Systems at the University of Kassel, funded by the DFG, the Hessian Ministry of Economics, and the BMBF, among others. As a freelancer, he began consulting medium-sized and large companies such as the RWE Group in 1997. In the same year, he was invited as a visiting researcher to the Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (JAIST), School of Knowledge Science, in Tokyo, Japan. From August 1999 to January 2000, he was a fellow of the Fritz Thyssen Foundation to conduct a study on “Knowledge Communication in the New Media Industry in New York City” as a Visiting Scholar at the Department of Information Systems, Leonard N. Stern School of Business, New York University.