Who is Matthias Van Hove? Matthias is an aerospace engineer and holds an MBA degree from Collège des Ingénieurs. He has started his a career at Airbus, a leading aircraft manufacturer, where he currently works as customer manager. Matthias delivers new A320 Family aircraft to global players in the airline and aircraft leasing markets. He strives to bring customer value to the heart of his ambition while protecting on-time and on-quality aircraft deliveries.

Matthias smells jet fuel and sees aircraft rocket into the sky every single day. However, he personally prefers to keep his feet on the ground and keeps an eye onto not feeling too self-important. Instead he feels privileged and grateful for the team of people he is working with on a daily basis. Matthias promotes an inclusive, empowering and rewarding leadership style.

Matthias was born in Luxembourg and currently lives in Hamburg, Germany. He strongly believes in the European concept. Matthias is convinced that Europe unites a unique and diverse blend of cultures, talents and businesses that puts Europe in a pole position for growth and innovation – while maintaining the guiding principles of its founders: unity and solidarity.

Matthias is a passionate investor and he’s always willing to debate stock market opportunities. While he fancies nerdy programming techniques, he’s also into learning languages (six so far). Matthias will never say no to a competitive game of Basketball and he will continue buying quite some concert tickets to see the rising stars of the Blues, Funk and Soul universe perform.

What is this episode about? What his first 60 minutes of the day look like What his nutritional philosophy looks like How he ended up selling airplanes for Airbus. What he bases his job choices on. How to be a leader. What his perfect day would look like. The importance of surrounding yourself with the right people What true success is about. HIs recipe for disaster. What Matthias wanted to be when he was 16 years old. His Management Hacks. His number one rule for young entrepreneurs. What his favorite word is What his least favorite word is What noise he loves What noise he hates What his three success tips are The book he has recommended more often What life slogan he would put on every coffee mug in the world What he would love to see when he would stand at the gates of heaven