Sebastian Richter has been Vice President of Market Segment Industry, Components, Research & Universities at Rohde & Schwarz in Munich since 2018. After obtaining a degree in communications engineering, he started his career at Intel where he held various positions in development and engineering operations. He subsequently headed the Wincor Nixdorf R&D location in Berlin, where POS systems and the associated software are developed. After working on its first mobile payment system and a corporate spin-off, he headed the global development of retail systems at Bizerba, a leading company for retail systems.