After his degree in Aeronautics and Aerodynamics at the Hochschule Bremen in October 1999 Lutz Höppner started his career as Engineering Consultant in companies like System Consult, CENIT AG and BERATA. In 2004 he starts building up a Business Unit for ALTRAN, working mainly with Automotive OEM Customers. In the following years until 2017 he has been responsible for Branch offices, acting as Managing Director in China and at last overtook the responsibility as Global Account Manager for the Volkswagen Group. In 2018 he became Managing Director for “CSI Entwicklungstechnik” in Gaimersheim before he joined Automotive Artificial Intelligence (AAI) in April 2020 as Director for Sales and Business Development.