Jan has been a newspaper and magazine journalist since 1992 and a corporate communications lead for global companies such as Jungheinrich in Hamburg. He was responsible for media relations of that company, which has subsidiaries in more than 30 countries and certified dealer partners in more than 70 other countries. Since 2016, he has been editor-in-chief of a German based technical magazine and, since 2018, spokesperson for German-Canadian company Ventusolar Global Capital.