Johannes is responsible for the global anti-counterfeiting program of Boehringer Ingelheim covering aspects of response, monitor and prevention. He joined BI in 2000 to head a QC laboratory for packaging materials and devices and a team performing validation and transfers of packaging processes. This was followed by assignments in BI’s global operations network and global supply chain including performance management and benchmarking. Since 2012 he is in his current responsibility within BI’s Global Quality Organization with a strong involvement in the global implementation of serialization and track & trace. Before that Johannes gained experience in the consumer good industry managing packaging development and operations. He currently is a member of the European Federation of Pharmaceutical Industries and Associations (EFPIA) anti-counterfeiting working group. Johannes holds a degree of mechanical engineering from the Technical University of Munich, Germany. Since 2005 he is lecturing on packaging of pharmaceuticals at the University of Applied Sciences, Bingen, Germany.