After studies in social sciences and economics, he has previously been specialising in property and investment.

Sebastian is an entrepreneur with an extensive business experience in a number of international markets. After studies in social sciences and economics, he has previously been specialising in property and investment.

Since 1996 he has been involved in a number of information technology related ventures and joined dicas, a developer of real-time video coding solutions, based in Germany, as its CEO in the beginning of 2001. dicas is an MPEG-focused video coding specialist and a leading developer of MPEG-4 AVC/H.264, MPEG-4 and 3GPP compliant real-time video coding solutions providing the industry with the highest quality core technology for digital video.
 
Sebastian is the President of the MPEG Industry Forum (MPEGIF) since 2004 and has been on MPEGIF’s Board of Directors since 2002 serving as Treasurer.
 
Sebastian is a regular speaker at industry events as well as the author of various articles and opinions in broadcast and multimedia publications. He is also the co-author of the book “Understanding MPEG-4 – Technology and Business Insights” (with Prof. Dr. Klaus Diepold of the Technical University of Munich, Germany).
 
He is listed in “Cable and Satellite Europe’s Euro 50 for 2004”, which features the leaders in Broadband and Pay-TV across Europe, Middle East and Africa.