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CEO, CFO, CRO, General Manager, corp. recovery

CEO, CFO, CRO, General Manager, corp. recovery

Work Experience

After finishing my degree in economics at the University of Cologne I joined Peat Marwick Mitchell in Düsseldorf in 1985 (KPMG as of 1986) as a consultant in the Audit and Audit Related Services department; later concentrating on Management Consulting Services.

Since 1996, I have worked in the General Management and financial, sales, purchase as well as technical functions in different industries, focusing primarily on private and publicly traded medium sized companies.

With a major focus in finance, structuring and restructuring, controlling, internal audit, M&A, I have also focused on sales, strategy, production, innovation managemen, project management and business development – with many years of both local and global experience in General Management.

This includes working on C-level (CEO, CFO, CTO, CPO) as Executive Member of the Board (Vorstand) nationally and internationally and as the General Manager (Geschäftsführer) of Holding Companies taking overall responsibility or division (production and trading).

Special fields of activity: Restructuring and corporate recovery, bad bank / NPL, finance, controlling, internal audit, M&A, marketing, sales, strategy, business development, General Management.


Details of my professional experience:

since 01/2011 Managing Partner management services, Frankfurt area
major fields of activities: interim management (on C-level) especially enterprise planning, innovation management, business transformation, strategy, finance, M&A, business and enterprise development, sales, production and others as well as project management

07/2007 – 12/2010 general manager, health care business, production and retail, north of Germany, about 700 employees worldwide, about. EUR 125 Mio. sales, subsidiaries in nine countries

group CFO, fields of activities: strategy and planning, finance, M&A, corporate recovery, interim management

group CRO / CTO since March 2009 realignment and structuring of production
managing director (Vorstand) since Oct. 2007, fields: finance and controlling, Marketing and sales, responsible for subsidiary in Asia (400 employees)
since Sept. 2008 responsible for all functions

01/2003 - 06/2007 BERCON Consulting Group, Liederbach / Frankfurt am Main
Business Partner major fields. M & A, enterprise planning, strategy, finance, business and enterprise development, interim management

11/1999 – 12/2002 FWM Food Industry, Germany and Hungary; about 300 employees; sales more than EUR 150 Mio., .the group consists of 14 subsidiaries
- CFO / Director Finance and Deputy General Manager of the Holding Company in Germany
Management of finance, accounting and administration, selection and preparation of the implementation of an ERP-software package, development of the management information system, coordination of finance and accounting of subsidiaries, standardisation of group planning, of calculation method within subsidiaries, introduction of a product and segment reporting
- CFO and General Manager of the Hungarian subsidiary
management and turn around / restructuring of the company , development and introduction of a supply chain management

10/1998 – 10/1999 SCG International Management Consulting, Frankfurt am Main,
Associate Partner responsible for client relation, budget and personnel development; focus on strategy and Management Information Systems
fields of activity: strategy (customer development) and market penetration: project to achieve turnover increase within a German blue chip company; M&A

6/1996 - 9/1998 TA TRIUMPH-ADLER AG, Nürnberg
Stock listed Holding, about 4.000 employees, activities in retail, production and services; divisions: office, leisure, construction and health care; turnover about EUR 1,3 billion; the group consisted of more than 100 subsidiaries
Head of internal audit / controlling, set-up and implementation of in-house consulting, internal audit and controlling
in charge and conduct of internal audit, partially supported by and using external resources
in charge controlling and in-house consulting, management of subsidiaries, restructuring of subsidiaries, identification of cost reduction potential and analysis of plant locations, design and audit of work processes and controls; set-up and determination of standards, design and set-up of adequate systems for controlling, reporting and cost accounting as well as management information systems (MIS), conception of a risk management system according to the German law (KonTraG)

9/1985 - 5/1996 KPMG, Düsseldorf and Frankfurt am Main,
one of the leading audit, tax and consulting companies, worldwide about 80.000 employees
responsibilities: performance of audits and consulting engagements incl. staff planning, budgeting, cost control, client relation and service, management of personnel and development of subordinates, performance and co-ordination of segment planning

4/1991 - 5/1996 KPMG, Management Consulting, Frankfurt am Main
Senior Manager and Prokurist since 1st of January 1992
fields of activity: investment management, corporate planning, business plans, business process redesign (BPR), project management, organisation, risk management, corporate recovery, strategy, M&A

thereof 1994 - 1995) two years CFO and head of commercial operations respectively Head of Group Controlling within KPMG Interim Management on behalf of KPMG clients
• CFO / head of commercial operations & business administration (EUR 600 Mio. sales)
• head of group controlling: in charge of German group of a Swedish co-operative society with production and retail units (EUR 400 Mio. sales)
• head of economic and commercial analysis and internal audit: in charge for German service company (more than 12.000 employees), (EUR 1,2 bn. sales)

9/1985 - 3/1991 KPMG, Audit, Düsseldorf und Frankfurt am Main
Manager and Prokurist since 1st of January 1990
Senior Auditor since 1st of July 1986
audit of national and international oriented industrial and retail clients as well as banks incl. US-, UK- and International accounting, acquisition audits (European companies), internal audit, organisations and cost analysis, selection and implementation of Standard-Software, interim Management as controller und head of operations within different Japanese banks and a Spanish bank.

1/1985 - 8/1985 Dr. jur. F. Lauter - Dipl.-Kfm. K. Fischer, auditors, Cologne
Assistant Auditor
audit of big production companies, medium sized retail companies as well as in health care sector and insurance companies

Education

Apprenticeship as industrial merchant.
Studies of economics, degree Diplom-Kaufmann (comparable to MBA)

Skills

General Manager
CEO / CFO / CRO
Accounting
Audit
Business development
Controlling
Controlling of subsidiaries
Corporate recovery
Finance
HR
Internal audit
M&A
Management Informations Systems
Management of subsidiaries
Organisation
Project management
Purchasing
Real estate management
Reporting
Restructuring
Risk management
Software selection
Software implementation
Strategy
Supply chain management
Turn around


Languages

German,
English,
French (basic knowledge)
Spanish (baisc knowledge)

Other

- PC DOS and Apple
- Microsoft and other applications
- Selection and implementation of ERP-Systems
- SAP R/3 basic knowledge

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