Speaker

Carsten has over 20 years of experience in the rail industry and holds a Master’s Degree in in telecommunications engineering, PMP certified and is an accredited FIDIC Adjudicator. He was formerly employed by Siemens, where he worked in two major metro turn-key projects in Colombia and USA. Moving on to other divisions in the area of telecommunication, electronic manufacturing and IT between 2002 and 2011 based out of Germany.
In 2011 he joint Sytecsa S.A. as COO and shareholder in Colombia/ South America. Sytecsa is a mid-size company focused on rail systems, rail maintenance and spare part management. Late 2014 he joint DB Engineering & Consulting as head of Saudia Arabia, including between others the prestigious projects of GCC Rail design and Haramain High Speed Rail Project. From 2017 to 2019 he build up the US business successfully (winning California High Speed – ETO and others). He is now responsible for DB Engineering & Consulting for Latin America. Based on numerous years’ experience, Carsten has proven track record to build up sustainable businesses by providing customer benefit with his team.