Before joining Quectel, Norbert was Senior Vice President of the Gemalto IoT business, which was active in 20 countries, and whose customer base included top blue-chip customers like Audi, Honeywell, Verifone, Philips, Continental and Panasonic, as well as a large number of innovative SMEs. 

Prior to this Norbert was CEO of Cinterion Wireless Modules, which he had spun off from Siemens and led to become a standalone enterprise.  Norbert began his career at Siemens in Munich as a telecommunications planning engineer in 1985. During several multi-year assignments to the US, Asia and China, he built his experience and multinational management skills. Norbert earned his degree in Electric and Electronic Science in Salzburg, Austria.