Hi, I'm Daniel
Hello, I am glad to get to know you. Thanks for reading my blog, it's great to have you here.
My name is Daniel, I was born in 1991 and I grew up on the Austrian countryside, in a small village called Grein.
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I already started to realize two things in my teenage years: I am interested in learning anything related to doing business, and I like connecting different cultures. After attending a commercial high school with international focus, I continued to study global business at JKU Linz. During this special master program, in a cohort of 32 students from 11 different nationalities, I studied in Austria, Canada and Taiwan for a year and learned a lot about culture, leadership as well as working in international teams.
Having successfully completed internships in Germany and China, having studied in Canada, Sweden and Taiwan, at the age of 27 in 2018 I was offered the chance to help establishing a new subsidiary of an Austrian business in Taiwan, and have been working there since then. In my role as Deputy General Manager, I started to lead a team of three colleagues, which by now already grew to five. Having first struggled with this task and having learned a lot through it, I now see leading my team as the most rewarding part of my work, and it helps me to keep being challenged and to grow every day.
Having worked in this role for 5 years, I now have transitioned into Software industry, as Taiwan Branch Lead for another Austrian company I am developing our Taipei office as HR and support projects in Asia. Adjusting to a new role, environment and industry provide the basis for many new learnings to come.
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Besides my work, I am a big fan of volunteering, helping others and building a community through bringing like-minded people together. For this purpose, I have been active at the Erasmus Student Network (ESN Linz) for 5 years during my studies to take care of exchange students coming to Austria. In July 2020, I became president of the Austrian-Taipei society: In this role, together with five other volunteers, we help to connect Austrians with friends of Austria in Taiwan, and organize events to bring everyone interested in Austria closer together.