Thomas Zapp, born in 1976, studied geoinformation sciences at the Rheinische-Friedrich-Wilhelms University in Bonn. After completing his technical legal clerkship at the district government of Cologne, graduating with the 2nd state exam as an assessor, he joined Vivacon AG in 2006 as a board member responsible for international corporate business based in Prague. From 2012, he managed large software customer projects as a senior project manager in the field of technical operations management at GreenGate AG, where he has been responsible for national and international project acquisitions in the field of software implementation as a sales engineer since 2017.