As Managing Director for OpenSRS for EMEA, Thorsten has been responsible for maintaining and developing existing customer relationships and fuelling further growth in OpenSRS for more than seven years. He and his team of dedicated account and business development managers are located in various major European hosting markets. Thorsten’s prior professional background is in product management for domains and hosting. Before his assignment as Senior Product Manager at Leaseweb in the Netherlands, he worked for 1&1 Internet in Germany and the United States for eight years. Thorsten headed up 1&1’s domain business , including its European and US expansion, led a product development team for core services and, in his last held position, set up business development in North America.