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Christian was born in 1971 in Germany and graduated from University of Muenster with a Master of Business Administration and a focus in International Marketing and Retail and Distribution.

He started his career in 1997, at Unilever Germany in Marketing & Sales functions. In 2000 he founded the Internet Start Up printium.com AG, which he directed as CEO. In 2001, he joined Wella AG where he worked as International Marketing Manager in the Consumer Division and then as Associate Marketing Director after the acquisition by Procter&Gamble.

Christian joined Numico in 2004 as Marketing Director Baby Nutrition Germany. In 2007, he was appointed Managing Director Baby Nutrition for Czech Republic and Slovakia, then in 2010, General Manager, Early Life Nutrition Russia and Kazakhstan. In 2013, he took the role of General Manager, Danone Waters Spain, and in 2017, he became Vice President, WhiteWave Integration.

Since October 2017, Christian was Senior Vice President, European Sources & evianVolvicWorld. In this role, he has focused with his teams on defining the Regional Strategy for profitable growth of the Global Brands evian and Volvic as well as the local European Waters CBUs in a high inflation environment.

And after successful Local, Regional and Global roles, he has successfully led the Waters Worldwide Business unit in 2021 through the COVID19 recovery. Since 2022, he led the Global Plant-Based business.