Assignment 21. 2005-2006 Company XYZ GmbH / Services and sales of health care products Position CEO (General Manager. Client was the parent company, listed on the stock exchange) Assignment Turnaround. Improve the profit margin from -20% to a more stable figure while continually improving the profit trend. Grow the shareholder value by 60 million € in […]
Assignment 20. 2004 Company XYZ GmbH / Manufacturer of exercise equipment Position CEO (General Manager, restructuring into a new company. The client was the acquiring company.) Assignment Restructuring, post-merger integration after the takeover on the heels of the bankruptcy of a Dutch competitor; increase profitability by double digits + amortize the takeover financing in three months. […]
Assignment 19. 2004 Client XYZ AG / Manufacture, trade and distribution of building materials Position Turnaround manager (Client was the British parent company) Assignment Turnaround. Adapt the business structure to the market. Lead it back into the black. Implementation The European parent company insisted that management at the German subsidiary take on an experienced turnaround manager. […]
Assignment 18. 2003 Company XYZ GmbH / Machine tools manufacturer Position Turnaround manager (actual client was a bank) Assignment Turnaround, head off bankruptcy Implementation This family-owned company was very low on equity and had broken even at best over a number of years. The problem was that design costs were weighing on orders. Customers ordered what […]
Assignment 17. 2002 Company XYZ AG / Provider of technical services Position In charge of sales and marketing, COO (Client was a venture capital company) Assignment Turnaround, bring the company into the black Implementation The company was a typical representative of the New Economy, armed with extraordinary liquidity thanks to an angel from the venture-capital scene. […]
Assignment 16. 2001 Company XYZ AG / Software house Position Business angel, finance manager Assignment Create a business plan, seed financing Implementation It was quite ambitious to look for seed capital at a time when venture-capital and private equity companies were investing only in growth financing, due to their bad experience with seed capital. The software […]
Assignment 15. 2000-2001 Company XYZ Private Equity Fund / Venture Capital Position CEO, Limited Partner Assignment Create a venture-capital fund for an investment bank Implementation The client wanted, like so many others, to earn from the New Economy. It set up a fund in the form of a limited partnership with a management company at its […]
Assignment 14. 1999-2000 Company XYZ AG / Software house Position CEO, Board of Management Assignment Development, sales, and implementation of business software Implementation The business case consisted of refining and marketing plug-in software for an existing ERP system. The company acquired exclusive marketing rights for the software and, after opening and doing business for a while, […]
Assignment 13. 1999 Company XYZ GmbH / Products for FFF Position CIO Assignment Implement an integrated ERP system, take over a failed project, and wrap up within four months Implementation The company had been trying for approximately 18 months to replace its existing ERP system because its old system would have crashed on 1/1/2000 due to […]
Assignment 12. 1996-1998 Company XYZ AG / Machine tools Position CIO Assignment Replace the entire IT infrastructure worldwide with an integrated ERP system and implement a b2b system within 18 months; increase productivity by 40% Implementation This is the same company that underwent restructuring in 1993 (Assignment 7 below) and into which another business was integrated […]