Background of Experience

25 years management experience

• Focus on Restructuring and Process Optimization
  across all areas (from Sales to Shipping)
• Managing Director/CEO, Production Manager/COO, Project Manager
• Manufacturing Industry Mechanical and
  Electrical Engineering
• Small and Medium Sized Business as well as Multinational Companies
• Distinctive Intercultural Experience

Professional Career

• Managing Director/CEO Mechanical and Electrical Engineering within Alstom, Areva, Swisslog (15 years)
• Head of Production/COO Mechanical and Electrical Engineering within GMN, AEG, Daimler Benz Industries, Alstom, Areva (10 years)
• Scientific Assistant in research and teaching, uni (5 years)
• Studies and Doctorate in Mechanical Engineering, main emphasis on Production Engineering and Logistics
• Coaching of Company‘s Founders (3years)

Core Competence Areas

• Restructuring =>Communication/Negotiation with Staff, Workers Council as well as Union Representatives
• Change Management =>Target oriented Leadership, Courage to change based on Trust, Appreciation and Sustainability
• Strategic Realignment =>Products, Markets, Vertical Range of Manufacture
• Optimization of Operations/Supply Chain =>Lean Tools, Production-Controlling
• Outsourcing, Make or Buy, Global Sourcing =>Prefabrication and Assembly

Selected Case Studies

• Turnaround of a EuropeanPlant with Global Strategic Reorientation and Loss of 30% export market due to set-up of local assembly plants in Asia
• Operative Consolidation of Production, Logistic and Service of two Sites
• Outsourcing and Global Sourcing of Metal-cutting Manufacturing, Sheet Metal Work and Painting
• Implementation of a Product oriented Matrix Organisation with Product Centers
• Integration of a previously owner-managed SME in an International Group Structure