Managing director 
and engineer with 
focus on strategic realignment and operative management of companies and projects

INDUSTRIES

Mechanical and plant engineering, automotive suppliers, process industry, automation technology, 
electrical engineering, energy

STAGES

Schuler Group, Viessmann, ABB, General Electric, 
Adtranz (heute Alstom), Inovan (part of Prym Group), SAMSON
Metall + Plastic (Optima Pharma), Kurth Electronic (Metrawatt), badenovaNETZE

QUALIFICATIONS

Executive Manager with more than 25 years of international leadership experience (USA, Brazil, Europe, China, India, Singapore, Japan, etc.); 
intercultural competence; Diplomas: General Management, Electrical Engineering, Information Technology; Foreign languages: English

SPECIAL FOCUS

Strategic & technical realignment | growth  | restructuring  | relocation

Sales Excellence: sales optimization and digitalization (CRM)

Technology Management: Automation and Industry 4.0 (IIoT)

The interim manager is an internationally experienced managing director who successfully realigns companies strategically and technologically. The corporate-experienced sales executive and engineer has broad expertise in the relocation and restructuring of business units as well as the optimization and digitalization (e.g. CRM) of sales and after-sales service. As an experienced technology manager, he also offers his clients special skills in the areas of automation technology and Industry 4.0 (Industrial Internet of Things).

In his most recent mandates, the interim manager has, among other things, relocated product development and production from companies in the automotive supply industry to Brazil, China and the Czech Republic. Before that, he pushed ahead with the restructuring of a medium-sized mechanical engineering company and was able to reduce costs by 30 percent. In a family-run company, he modernized sales processes and organization and successfully introduced customer relationship management (CRM).

The twice qualified engineer (electrical engineering, information technology) and graduate of the Business School St. Gallen offers his clients excellent leadership experience in the management of global companies. He has repeatedly set up companies abroad and led them to success for large corporations such as ABB, GE and Schuler/Andritz as well as for medium-sized famil-owned companies such as Viessmann and Prym: for example in China, India, Singapore and the Czech Republic. He has successfully restructured companies in Germany, the USA, Sweden, and Switzerland and layed them out for sustainable growth.

From these foreign assignments, the interim manager has a strong intercultural competence - a success factor that was often the decisive factor for his successful mandates.

Employers and clients attest to the interim manager's exceptional ability to develop strategies, structure and develop organizations. With entrepreneurial far-sightedness and a keen sense of how the industry is developing, he has successfully adapted his clients' companies to the requirements of the global markets.

His management style is based on trust. In many companies he was able to achieve cultural change through change management, a cooperative management style and a hands-on mentality, which led and still leads to sustainable results.