Thomas has 12 years crude oil refinery experiences. His main focus is the development of optimization models, scheduling systems and process simulators for chemical plants, especially for crude oil refineries. Tom has profound know how about fuels, its production and the additization along the refinery processes. Detailed knowledge about the mineral oil and automotive market in Europe. He possess great experiences with customer relationship concepts, including contract negotiations, sales strategies and long term co-operations with major mineral oil players, automotive OEM and after-market customers. He is also always scouting to intro innovative technologies under the umbrella of Industry 4.0 specifics such as smart manufacturing, smart supply chain and digital business models.