Dr. Alexander M. Miehr, holds a Ph.D. from the Technical University Munich and graduated in Business & Management at the Babson College (Boston) and the OHSU (Portland). After 25 yrs in the Semicon business, he leads the Competence Center Material Management at the Thüga AG. With more than 22,000 employees, the Thüga partners supply about five mio. customers with electricity, two mio. with natural gas and one mio. customers with drinking water.