Tilman is a data storage veteran and has held various roles from presales architect to EMEA regional storage presales manager. He currently runs the Worldwide Technical Marketing Engineering (TME) group for HPE storage solutions. In his most recent position in Worldwide TME, Tilman runs a worldwide team of backup, recovery, and archive storage solution experts. His team owns training and enablement, marketing collateral, value-selling presales tools, and customer engagements where deep backup ISV or solution expertise is required. Tilman holds a M.Sc. in Computer Science from the University of Stuttgart, Germany.