• General Manager with substantial background in automotive and high tech industries
• Complementary consulting approach: functional-systemic
• Logical, reliable, sympathetic, fast, open, innovative, alert

Expertise

• Change Management (especially strategy development and implementation)
• Product and project management (also Task Forces)
• Sales and Marketing
• Interim Management and Co-Management

Professional Background

• Infineon: Leading a corporate-wide Sales & Marketing (S&M) excellence initiative and responsibility for the global S&M Operations Team
• BMW: Supporting the Task Force Leader to safeguard the ramp-up of the BMW i3 carbon parts
• Autokabel: Leading two Task Forces and introducing a product and project management organisation
• Freescale: Responsibility for global automotive segment (increasing design-in value from 1B$ to 2,4 B$ in 3 years) / Development and introduction of a corporate-wide, cross-functional product definition process
• Motorola: Head of strategy for the EMEA telematics market / Program Manager for driver assistance systems / Key Account Manager for BMW
• Hitachi: Technical Marketing and New Business Development

Education & Training

• Master of Science, University of Applied Sciences Munich, Electrical Engineering – focus: Control Theory
• Master of Science, Technical University Munich, Electrical Engineering – focus: Automation Technology
• Master of Business Administration (MBA), The Open University
• Top Management Coaching by Dorothee Echter
• Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT): Theory U – “Leading from the emerging future”
• Penn State University/Michael E. Mann: “Climate Change: The Science and Global Impact”