After graduating as a telecommunication engineer he started his career in 1995 at Nokia in Finland. After a couple of years living and working abroad he founded or co-founded three start-ups in Germany – one was Secusmart providing encryted voice communication. After Secusmart Torsten hold several senior positions for general management, sales and marketing in companies like Stonesoft, Intel, McAfee. Currently he is responsible as a General Manager for the security business in BT for the German speaking regions, Nordics, and CEER.