Marketing Programme and Process Standardisation

Tobias Richter heads the international business study programme at the Business School of Trier University of Applied Sciences (Germany). He lectures and researches on marketing management and advises leading corporations and international institutions in Europe. Prior to accepting his professorship, he served as Executive Member of the Board of Directors and as European marketing director (EMEA) of a major American sporting goods corporation. Previous positions include: marketing director of a German marketing agency and company secretary of a trade marketing agency in the UK. He started his management career in a German DAX-30 company where he had worked as product manager (Germany), category manager (Europe) and project manager (Global). The author studied Business Administration at Freie Universität Berlin, and at the Haas School of Business at University of California at Berkeley (USA). He holds an MBA of the dual master programme of the University of Bristol (UK), and the École Nationale de Ponts et Chaussées (France). He earned his doctorate in the Marketing and Strategic Management Group at the University of Warwick (UK).