After finishing his European Finance and Accounting studies in Bremen, Germany (Dipl.-Betriebswirt) and Leeds; England (BA (Hons)) plus obtaining an MBA in Edinburgh (Scotland), Tobias Happel worked for almost 2 years as a consultant for financial Application at Oracle. For more than 20 years he was in different finance and pricing roles at Philips Healthcare in Böblingen (Germany) with growing responsibilities ending up in a global pricing responsibility of the General Specialty Care. In 2014 he was accredited as Certified Pricing Manager (Level 3) from the European Pricing Platform. Besides that, for the last 5 years he also led a value based pricing projects adapting some key learnings to other strategic value based pricing projects.