The Story so far

The Boy Who Wanted Out

In a Swabian village, the path was drawn before he could walk it: study something solid, take over the family business, build a house, park a Daimler in front of it.

But Marc wanted out. Into sport. Into the world. Onto his own path.

At fourteen, he turned a CD burner into his first business. Later he left for university in Cologne – against everything that had been planned for him. A bike instead of the Daimler. A shared flat instead of a house. The world instead of the village.

The Bone Breaker of Cologne

The idea began with a wrong break. Marc and his father built a machine meant to simulate a bicycle crash. But the first real specimen broke differently than planned.

The surgeon looked at the injury and said: “That is exactly what I had on my operating table yesterday.”

From that mistake came RIMASYS. A small Cologne lab grew into surgical training for the whole world – self-funded, against plenty of resistance, at full personal risk.

Then came Covid. Overnight, nobody was allowed into the training room. So RIMASYS reinvented itself: broken bones became digital avatars, local courses became worldwide live surgeries, and one lab became an international community of surgeons. What began with a wrong break suddenly connected surgeons across continents.

Not Leaving. Handing Over.

Marc didn't want to be the millionaire who simply disappears after the sale.

So he stayed, kept leading, and prepared RIMASYS to grow without him – even though his own strength was long gone.

On January 1, 2024, he handed over operational leadership and initially stayed on the board. Because for him, responsibility did not end with a signature. But with letting go came a question that reaches far beyond the sale of a company: Who am I when the company is no longer my life?