Reinhard Frigger | Director

I was so excited about the IT industry, I decided to go straight into vocational training rather than go to high school.  After three years of training, I got a job at an Apple company, where I learned to plan and carry out complex IT projects.  In Germany, every man has to carry out a year of civilian service, so I had to take a break in my business career.  I used the time to get my high school diploma, studying at nights and on the weekend.  In the second year of my high school studies I went back to work.  I realized, however, pretty quickly, that a broad technical and humanities education would make life enormously more interesting, and decided to quit my job and begin studying for a degree in Business Informatics at the University of Essen, Germany.  To help pay for my expenses, I helped companies, on the side, to optimize their IT and implement new software systems.
That’s how I got to know BrainNet, setting up their in-house IT.  After I got my degree, I started work as a consultant and was lucky enough to have the chance, with the help of some great project managers, to jump into a quick learning curve in classic cost reduction and organizational projects. I was able to build up my expertise in the power supply environment, which I have been professionalizing further within the scope of my Practice work.  I take time for my hobbies, including traveling, sailing and snowboarding, whenever I can as a balance to my work.  My wife and I found the perfect setting for this at our home in Salzburg.
BrainNet offers their employees a platform to develop and to grow with the company.  In addition to a comprehensive training program, including classical business courses as well as exotic offerings such as a speed-reading seminar, BrainNet also offers space to develop personally and ideas for new project approaches are discussed and actively encouraged. As a result of the international expansion, short-term moves to foreign offices in South America or Asia have also been made possible in addition to special project assignments.
Working for BrainNet means being able to adapt to each customer and their individual challenges in every project, as part of a working culture which is strongly characterized by employee cooperation in an open and trusting environment.  It’s great to see how younger colleagues develop in projects, internal Practice workshops, and acquisition appointments.  In particular, in my role as a mentor at BrainNet, I’ve seen how important it is to accompany and coach the “young mavericks” in their career path.
BrainNet places their employees at center stage, as they are the interface, or“the face” for the customers.  I don’t know of many companies in which the CEO, together with his wife, invites employees in groups of 6-8 people to their home for fireside evenings.
I don’t know if I can put the company culture into words, but at least by now one should be able to see how the “BrainNet” heart beats. When you see how personal friendships develop, and joint ski or sailing trips are organized from within the network of colleagues, it just shows how well everyone gets along.  Especially at the Christmas parties, which always take place with the spouses and partners being invited along, you can feel the appreciation on their part, more than words could really say.