Jochen Walter, Partner

Jochen, who joined BayTech as a partner in 2000, focuses on investments in the applied materials and IT sectors. He serves as a board member at Open-Xchange Inc. in Tarrytown (NY), EnOcean GmbH in Unterhaching and abaXX in Stuttgart.

Prior to joining BayTech,  he worked as a senior management consultant with A.T. Kearney, where he specialized in the automotive and mechanical engineering industries. His broad experience includes the areas of purchasing, product development, manufacturing, marketing & sales, IT, change management and post-merger integration.

Jochen began his career as product development manager with Unilever Germany in the consumer goods sector, where he was responsible for new product development. While at Unilever he built up a new production facility and launched an innovative dairy spread that has since generated annual revenues of approximately € 100 million.

Jochen earlier worked as a researcher in material sciences at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and received a master's degree in mechanical engineering and a Ph.D. in technical chemistry from the Technical University of Munich.