Harald graduated with a BSc in Electronics and Mathematics from Hamburg University, Germany and with an MSc in Control Engineering from Cranfield Institute of Technology, England.
He worked as technical manager for Baker Perkins in England, a manufacturer of web-offset printing presses for commercial printing. He joined AUCOTEC, a German software company, in 1994 and established the North American sales company, AUCOTEC, Inc.
He returned to England in 1998, where he founded Path 2 Print Ltd as a sales company for ISIMAT's screen printing machines in the UK and Ireland. Harald joined ISIMAT in Germany as Sales & Marketing Director in autumn 2007. He moved to Scotland for private reasons in March 2015 and is now working as ISIMAT's agent in the United Kingdom and Ireland.