Despite having founded two start-ups while researching corporate warfare at university in the early 2000s, Valentin eventually went corporate after completing his Ph.D. program. In 2010 he joined the world market leading machinery equipment manufacturer Wagner Group, a Swiss-based foundation owned company, as the strategic assistant to the CEO. Valentin has held management positions in marketing, business development, and digital transformation.

Since 2016 he heads the corporate incubator freiraum and is a member of the senior leadership team of Wagner. Next to that, Valentin is also the Founder and Managing Director of IONIQ Skincare, a world-leading beauty tech startup. He has won the national Digital Champion Award by Deutsche Telekom in 2021 and is a regular lecturer in innovation, business modeling, and organizational implementation at Hasso Plattner Institute (Potsdam) and European School of Management & Technology (Berlin).

儘管在2000年代初期在大學時創辦了兩家新創公司,Valentin 在完成博士學位後最終進入了企業。2010年,他加入了世界領先機械設備製造商 Wagner Group 擔任首席執行長的戰略助理。Valentin 曾在行銷、業務拓展和數位化轉型方面擔任管理職務。

Valentin 自2016年起領導企業孵化器 freiraum,並是 Wagner 資深領導團隊的意願。 除此之外,他還是世界領先美容科技新創公司 IONIQ Skincare 的創辦人暨執行董事。 他曾於2021年獲得德國電信頒發的 Digital Champion Award,並是 Hasso Plattner Institute 和歐洲管理與技術學院(柏林)的創新、商業建模和組織架構的定期講師。