"Fingers must stay on!" That's the only demand Toni's father makes of his son when he looks for an apprenticeship in the early 1980s. So the parental carpentry workshop is out of the question for the young man. Instead, Toni does an apprenticeship as an industrial clerk at Dynamit Nobel in Troisdorf, comes into contact with IT there - and later works as a systems engineer and application developer, at that time still an "exotic job". Toni develops programs for the company's controlling department and, after the splitting up of Dynamit Nobel at the end of the 1980s, takes care of the configuration of the computer center for the new Hüls Troisdorf AG (from 1994 HT Troplast). At that time, Hüls Troisdorf was one of the pioneers in SAP - and Toni was part of the "SAP group". In SAP R/2 he is responsible for the RM Maintenance module. The conversion to SAP R/3 and decentralized, smaller computers gives Toni and several colleagues the idea of founding their own company. On April 1, 1995 GAMBIT Consulting is founded with a total of ten people. Today, the IT specialist is responsible as sub-project manager for topics such as company code splits or carve-outs - but always with the focus on logistics.