Mobile Strategist on the run
For the past five years, Christopher has been living inside the giant pinball machine also known as Tokyo, working with companies across the globe on mobile strategy.
He grew up in Germany’s Rhineland, where he happily spent the first three decades of his life — at least when he wasn’t away hiking in the Himalayas or driving a beat-up VW through remote parts of Brazil. He has been working at the intersection of Internet, Telecoms, Media and Advertising for more than a decade since graduating with a degree in Psychology from University of Cologne somewhere in the dark past. His assignments prior to coming to Asia include Vodafone D2 Germany, BenQ Mobile and Deutsche Telekom.
He is a regular speaker at top-tier conferences and mobile industry events worldwide, and has authored a string of publications on the Japanese mobile industry.
As a combined result of both personal passion and professional necessity, he has visited 34 countries and used more dodgy airlines than he cares to remember. He speaks four languages more or less fluently, is a distinguished practitioner of the culinary arts, and holds an unofficial black belt in taming Chihuahuas.
Christopher is currently in the process of relocating to Europe, spending 3 months traveling through Japan, India and Nepal as part of a brief hiatus, while most of his belongings make their journey across the Seven Seas on a boat that will hopefully not be held up off the Horn of Africa.
