Achim represents main Investor IP Group plc on the Uniphy Board. He has been working in the entrepreneurial deep science sector for the last 15 years initially as funder and entrepreneur and later as business builder and investor. He launched his career at the Cleantech Fraunhofer Institute IUSE in Germany as an expert for water tech but also got involved in a wide range of other engineering projects. Later he joined McKinsey & Company initially in the Düsseldorf and then the London Office as a strategy consultant working across a variety of client industries addressing mainly strategic but also operational client issues.
Achim received his Chemical Engineering Degrees from Universities in Karlsruhe (KIT) and Dortmund, Germany. He also holds an MBA from Kellogg. While being involved in a wide variety of physics investment projects and companies at IP Group, he is specifically focussed on materials and engineering related opportunities.