I founded Camori in 2026 after thirteen years inside the warehouse automation industry. Those years were spent at KNAPP AG — one of the leading global vendors in this space — building systems, leading commissioning programs, and ultimately running regional operations across European and Latin American markets.
The practice exists because of what I observed across those projects: the buyer side, no matter how capable, is structurally outmatched by the vendor side in nearly every major automation investment. Not because of bad faith on either side, but because of the asymmetry of repetition. The vendor has run the playbook hundreds of times. The client is doing it for the first or second.
Camori closes that gap. Independent advisory for C-suite and VP-level executives, working exclusively client-side, with the technical depth that comes from having spent more than a decade inside the vendor's own organization.
Background
I joined KNAPP AG in 2012 as a software commissioning engineer. Over the years that followed I moved through senior commissioning roles across Europe, including major automation deployments for leading European fashion retailers — among the more technically ambitious work KNAPP had taken on at that point.
In 2018 I took the senior commissioning role for the LATAM region, leading the program on Lojas Renner's Cabreúva distribution center in São Paulo, Brazil — at the time of its 2022 public disclosure, KNAPP's largest Latin American automation project (€88.4M KNAPP technology scope; KNAPP press release, May 2022). Working on that program was where the gap between vendor knowledge and client knowledge became impossible to unsee.
In 2022 I founded and built KNAPP's Mexico commissioning organization. I built the commissioning team and ran cross-border implementations across the US and Latin American corridors for major retailers under direct operational pressure.
Those thirteen years compounded into a particular kind of knowledge: how vendors actually think about scope, change orders, integration tests, and the moments when client teams are most vulnerable to making decisions they will spend the next eighteen months regretting. That knowledge now sits exclusively on the client's side of the table.
Philosophy
I built Camori to be the role that doesn't exist inside any vendor organization: the one that watches each decision moment purely on behalf of the buyer. Not because vendors are wrong — they're doing exactly what they're structured to do, and good vendors do it with integrity. But the structural reality is that no vendor can simultaneously sell the system and be the steward of the client's long-term interest in that system. Those are two different roles. Camori is the second one.
Every engagement is led personally. There is no junior staff. There is no second tier. The person on this page is the person on every call, every site visit, every contract review.
Languages
Engagements are conducted in English, Spanish, Portuguese, German, or Italian — whichever is the client's native language. In high-stakes warehouse automation projects where contract terms are negotiated in detail and acceptance criteria are written word by word, working in the client's first language is not a courtesy. It is a commercial advantage.
I have lived and worked across Austrian, German, Spanish-speaking Latin American, and Brazilian Portuguese-speaking environments for extended periods. The languages were learned in the rooms where they mattered.
A note on the name
The surname is Trösterer — Austrian, with the ö (o-umlaut). In contexts where the umlaut isn't supported — US legal documents, email addresses, ASCII-only forms — it is rendered Troesterer, following the standard German transliteration convention where ö becomes oe. Both spellings refer to the same person.
Education and origin
Austrian by origin, formally educated at HTL Pinkafeld — the technical college that anchored my early engineering training. I have worked internationally since 2012, on projects across Europe, the United States, and nearly every country in Latin America.
The practice is registered as Camori LLC in Delaware, United States.
Discovery call
If your project might benefit from independent advisory — pre-investment, mid-implementation, or post-go-live — the discovery call is the entry point.