Valerie

As a native country bumpkin from the Hintertaunus, I grew up next to the probably smallest vineyard in Germany and attended elementary and high school there until I graduated in 2010. Afterwards, I seized an opportunity that arose from my annual vacation job and became the branch manager of a canoe and mountain bike station in Wetzlar in the Lahn Valley. Here, my love of nature and my homeland merged with my professional activities, which took place mostly outdoors. Personnel management, bookkeeping as well as customer service and logistics were also part of my responsibilties. I've a degree in visual marketing design. Due to my curiosity and ambition, I started my freelance work as a career changer in the event industry directly afterwards. My motivation for this was the conceptual component, which appealed to me. I became an event manager, retail designer, wedding planner, trade show and stage builder, decorator and project manager. Since January 2015, I thus realized major events, congresses, roadshows, store fitting projects and exhibition stands in cooperation with many global players from the industry. In 2017, while looking for a permanent position, I was recruited for a job abroad. From the Netherlands, as well as from America, I worked the following 20 month mainly on implementing projects for Red Bull and Nike. My task was constructional pre-planning and implementation in the area of event architecture. Beside customer service, calculation of sales prices and the and the control of workflows and organizational skills, many hands-on activities had been part of my tasks. In the fall of 2018, I returned to Germany and resumed my self-employed work again. As a result of the corona crisis, I unceremoniously enrolled in a degree program in International Wine Economics at the University of Applied Sciences in Geisenheim and I am just facing my Bachelor Thesis. I love cooking and especially eating. I've a passion for wine and I like to go fishing, canoeing and surfing. My blind street dog is my dearest companion for over six years now. I am in love with the blockchain technology.