Helmut is CEO & COO of AMAG Austria Metall AG since the beginning of 2024, which he joined in September 2007 as a Member of the Board & Chief Operating Officer (COO).

From 1997 until 2007 he was Managing Director of the ARC Leichtmetallkompetenzzentrum Ranshofen GmbH. Previously he held management positions at UBE Europe GmbH (1994 – 1997) and started his career at the AMAG R&D department (1988-1994).

Helmut studied at Leoben University of Mining (MUL), Austria and graduated as Dipl. Ing. in 1987. He received a doctoral degree in 1992 from MUL as well as a post-doctoral teaching qualification from RWTH Aachen, Germany, in 2005.