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About

Integral Heretic. Buddhist Geek. Macro-Economist. Mystic. 20 years bridging capital and consciousness — from family offices to sacred plant medicine traditions.

I've spent 20 years in two worlds that rarely speak to each other: the boardrooms where capital is structured, and the inner chambers where identity is forged.

I've structured deals for regenerative funds and founders. I have sat in ceremony with Wixárika elders for over a decade now. I've built a 5,000-contact B2B network and guided people through deep transpersonal experiences. I am Founding Partner at 783 Capital Partners and have written an academic thesis on the long-term effects of meditation on social behaviour.

The paradox is not incidental. It is the offering.

I work at the threshold — where legacy meets leverage, where systemic change requires inner work, where the most important strategic question is often a deeply personal one.

I once was a solo ballet dancer. Had a Kundalini awakening at age 22. Spent a decade long in Shamanic training in the Shipibo, Wixárika, and Bwiti traditions. I've built a deep network across the world's most unlikely intersections with a focus on systemic change.

Five-Times Virgo. ESFJ. Manifesting Generator. Born September 10, 1979.

Sacred Paradoxes

I don't eliminate tension. I convert it.

Into strategy, into signal, into structure.

Both/and, never either/or

Integral Heretic

Buddhist Geek

Macro-Economist

Mystic

Long-Term Meditator

Plant Medicine Aficionado

Systems Thinker

Inner Space Navigator

Capital Strategist

Ceremony Holder

Solo Ballet Dancer

Systems Change Strategist

Community-Born Child

Prêt-à-Porter Enthusiast

Koan Contemplator

House Music Dancer

Manifesting Generator

Darkness Retreat Participant

The Journey

A life built at the intersection

It started with ballet. From age 7 to 20, all I wanted is to become a solo dancer — a discipline that taught me that the body is the first field of transformation, that precision enables freedom, and that years of practice are required before any real expression becomes possible.

At 17, I encountered Willigis Jäger — Benedictine monk and Zen master — and began a contemplative practice that has never stopped. At 22, a Kundalini awakening sent me to India. What I found there wasn't escape from the world but a deeper entry into it.

Between 2007 and 2012, I built Forum Nachhaltig Wirtschaften — the first B2B magazine on sustainability in German-speaking countries — learning how complex systems change through the patient work of narrative, network, and relationship.

Since then: 40+ ventures advised, 5,000+ relationships woven, +74 long-form conversations recorded on my podcast Catalyzing Radical Systemic Change, and one ongoing question: how do we build institutions worthy of the future we want to leave for the next at least seven generations ahead?

Timeline

1979

Born September 10 in Leimen, Germany

1986–1999

Trained as a solo ballet dancer — 13 years of embodied discipline, precision, and the relationship between form and freedom

1991

Moved to Berlin to ballet boarding school at 12 — early immersion into carving out excellence through discipline

1996

First encounter with Benedictine master Willigis Jäger at 17 — beginning of formal contemplative practice. 30 years of unbroken contemplative practice across Buddhist, Christian mystical, and non-dual traditions

2001

Kundalini awakening — traveled to India to study meditation and consciousness in depth

2007

Academic thesis: 'The Long-Term Effects of Meditation on Social Behaviour' — one of the first rigorous studies connecting inner practice and outer systems

2007–2012

Built Forum Nachhaltig Wirtschaften — the first B2B magazine on sustainability in German-speaking countries

2007–present

20 years advising family offices, regenerative funds, and purpose-driven ventures — 5,000+ international B2B relationships

2021

Launched Catalyzing Radical Systemic Change podcast — now 74+ episodes with Family Offices, system innovators, indigenous knowledge holders, and consciousness researchers

Present

Founding Partner at 783 Capital Partners — the infrastructure layer between founders and capital.

Lineages & Traditions

The contemplative ground

The contemplative ground came first. Everything else — the business advisory, the capital strategy, the network — grew from it. These are not modalities I studied from the outside. They are paths I walk every day.

Shipibo

Amazonian Peru

Initiated into an Ayahuasca lineage rooted in ceremonial rigor. The training unfolds through subtle-field diagnostics, and disciplined perception — cultivating the capacity to steward altered states with clarity, integrity, and devotion to collective healing.

Wixárika (Huichol)

Western Mexico

An indigenous tradition centered on peyote ceremony, pilgrimage, and a living relationship with the natural world as sacred. One of the least-colonized indigenous traditions remaining.

Bwiti (Mbwiti)

Central Africa (Gabon)

Iboga lineage — used for deep initiation, ancestral healing, and confronting the shadow. Among the most powerful and demanding of all transpersonal traditions.

Christian Mysticism

Benedictine Mysticism & Rinzai Zen

Foundation with Willigis Jäger at 17 — Benedictine monk and Zen master. The contemplative ground that precedes and integrates all other paths.

“Wake up. Grow up. Clean up. Show up.”

The integral imperative

These four vectors define the work — both personal and systemic. Waking up is the contemplative path. Growing up is the developmental path. Cleaning up is the shadow work. Showing up is the action, the engagement, the embodied presence in the world.

None of them can be skipped. All of them are required. The leaders who understand this — who refuse to let their outer success outpace their inner development — are the ones changing the texture of the future.

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74+ Episodes

Catalyzing Radical Systemic Change

Long-form conversations at the intersection of soul and strategy.

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