I moved from Salzburg to Vienna in 2003 to study software engineering at TU Wien, and somehow never left. My first real job threw me into business intelligence consulting at Harrer & Partner — crunching data for universities, car companies, anyone who'd have me. But it was a project in the cultural sector that changed everything. Turns out, helping a theater understand its audience was more interesting to me than optimizing supply chains.
That thread kept pulling. I went self-employed in 2013, dove deeper into analytics for arts organizations through Kulturplanner — eventually becoming CTO before moving to the advisory board. In 2014, I co-founded what would become easy-connect — a mobile platform for arts and culture organizations that somehow kept growing.
Along the way, I spent a few years as CTO at IDAGIO, the classical music streaming platform.
The common thread? I keep ending up at the intersection of technology and culture. It wasn't planned — it just turned out to be where I'm most useful and most happy.
