Volker is responsible for the areas of AI and Big Data. After working in the ICT sector, he was involved in biomedicine for many years. Based on the AI technologies developed there, he spun out one of the early FinTech companies that developed real-time news analytics for identifying market-moving events. Volker then built up the Data Science division for one of the largest German media companies, which included targeting solutions for marketing and AI-based recommendation systems for video-on-demand.