Since 25 years Thomas has worked in the IT, fashion and internet industry. As managing board of Netresearch App Factory AG he is responsible for business developement and finance. During his career he developed his own enterprises in Germany and China and he was resoponsible for the reconstruction of a quoted group of companies. He worked in various industries ranging from the car industry via fashion to payment systems.

Thomas graduated his studies in machine construction at the Friedrich-Alexander-University of Erlangen and worked as a project manager in the industrial automation. Afterwards he changed into the fashion industry which is rather unusual for a graduate engineer and worked as sales and commercial manager for various producers of sportswear, such as Repaly. Subsequent to this he founded his own company which he saled in 2000. After he had taken over the reconstruction of a quoted group of companies he became self-employed in China and developed with IWAYS the first contentdeveloper for e-learning in China which was took over by TrendMicro in 2010.