Josef majored in technical chemistry at the Technical University in Vienna. He was Research assistant at the Austrian Institute of Wood Research, and then spent 20 years in various senior positions in sales, regulatory affairs, clinical research from 1981 till 2001 in international pharmaceutical industry based in Austria. He was also in charge of development of an IT-supported workflow management system for a company. From 1999 till 2001 he was Director Business Development at AstraZeneca Austria.

Josef´s special personal competence is data base programming, programming in Visual Studio, Client/Server technology and programming, network technology, workflow management, internet technology.

Foreign languages: English (business fluent), Swedish (basic) and Hungarian (basic)