Jörn-Heinrich Tobaben is CEO of Industrial Initiative for Central Germany was born in Lower Saxony, studied economics and sociology at the University of Hamburg. The business graduate worked during his previous career in various senior positions in the areas of location marketing and technology support, including managing director of BIO-NET LEIPZIG Technologietransfergesellschaft mbH and the Business & Innovation Centre (BIC) in Leipzig. Most recently, Jörn-Heinrich Tobaben as director of site development project "stade-project2021" in the Growth-Initiative Süderelbe AG to build an integrated industrial site management in the region Stade logistics in the priority industries such as chemicals, energy and port-affine logistics.