Dirk is a Founding Partner of AURELIUS.

Established in 2005, AURELIUS has developed into a global alternative investor, specialising in Private Equity, Private Debt and Real Estate.

He started his career with McKinsey & Company in 1995. As a management consultant and project manager, he focused on process optimisation and digitisation as well as restructuring topics.

Dirk studied business administration in St. Gallen, Switzerland, where he earned a PhD. He also studied in Copenhagen as a visiting scholar on a grant from German Academic Scholarship Foundation (Studienstiftung). During his PhD studies, he spent a semester at Harvard University as a Visiting Research Fellow.

He is a member of the Board of Trustees of the START Foundation, which provides scholarships to gifted children with a migration background.