CFO / CRO, CFO DACH, Director Finance & HR and Deputy Managing Director

at Staples, Hamburg and Stuttgart www.staples.eu

Company: world leading office supplies dealer; online and offline
with online platforms for B2B and B2C

private equity financed Dutch group (Cerberus)
relevant activities (DACH) 7 legal entities
350 MioEUR sales
1.600 employees

Tasks / Achievements: Cost reduction
Working capital reduction
Carve out (share und asset deal)
Re-organisation (structure and processes, Post Merger Integration related)
in Finance and HR and connected departments
Controlling, Sales Controlling
Costing improvements
Implementation of monthly monitoring and variance analysis
Monthly Reporting and Statutory Accounts: delivery on-time and in quality
Improvement of key financial processes
Budgeting
Cash Management:
Balance sheet clean-up: Creditors, Debitors, Assets, ...
Successfull realisation of a discovery phase for the
implementation of a new ERP system

Special Topics: Works Council
Banks / Rating Agencies

Reporting Line: CFO of the Dutch parent company and to the Private Equity company

Company: German company (170 employees, 80 MioEUR turnover)
of a Dutch group
logistics sector: Rental of pallets and barred boxes

Tasks / Achievements: Analysis and reactivation of an agile ERP project (Navision up-grade)
Re-organization (structure and processes)
of the Finance and HR departments-

Reporting Line: CFO of the Dutch parent company

and Mem Bauchemie GmbH www.MEM.de

Companies: German entities (500 employees, 180 million EUR turnover)
of the stock listed French speciality chemicals company Arkema SA
Products: inter alia adhesives for the Automotive industry
and fort he building suppliers industry

Special Achievements: Restructuring of the Finance and the HR department
and transfer of the tasks into a Shared Service Center
(as one step of the Post Merger Integration)
Clean-up of the balance sheets
Implementation of new structures and processes

Reporting Line: CFO of the parent company

Carve Out / Demerger (after a Post Merger Integration)
Panasonic Automotive & Industrial Systems Europe GmbH www.panasonic.com

Company: European daughter of a Japanese Group
(1,200 employees, 1.8 billion EUR turnover)

Tasks / Achievements: Organisation and realisation of the finance related aspects
of the split/demerger (Carve Out)
into two companies; Automotive and Industrial

Reporting Line: Managing Director



03/2015 - 10/2016 Consulting Mandates: M&A and structuring of several companies

in the environment of new technologies / smart house / energy / consumer electronics
including the improvement of the companies` organizations and
the structures under corporation laws

Company: private equity financed group (Aurelius)
with 18 subsidiaries in Europe and India
(1,200 employees, 120 MioEUR turnover)

services, solutions and products around the communication
for the connected world of today
especially for the Automotive industry

Special Achievements: (re-)structuring of a new company group

Carve Out and getting independence
for the German, Polish, Dutch and Indian parts of a Finnish group

Improvement of the liquidity
Determining of the cash burn

Divestment / Carve Outs of several business units and legal entities
in Germany, India, The Netherlands within the first 7 months

Ad on acquisition

Reporting Line: Shareholder`s CEO (Aurelius)

Company: private equity financed international group
(Rubicon Partners & Vision Capital)
with 15 subsidiaries; inter alia in Eastern Europe

paint stripping management for the Automotive industry

Special Achievement: Implementing and securing of a new controlling/reporting
in front of the background of new shareholders (private equity)

Optimisation of the Working Capital

Reporting Line: Shareholder

Company: production of shrink films and thermoforming films (lidding, bags, ...)
for the food packaging industry, especially for meat and sausages;
private equity funded (Afinum)

Reporting line: shareholder
and
insolvency administrator

Company: family owned wind farm projecting, building and operating group
market leader in Poland

Reporting line: shareholder

Functional topics: Structuring of the group
Finance/Accounting
Controlling
Tax
Strategy

Special Achievements: Development of a long-term strategy
Implementation of a Project Controlling System
Solution of a long-standing tax problem (binary MioEUR-Amount)
Reduction of debt (binary MioEUR-Amount)

www.medi-cine.de

Company: Media Production with a focus on films
specifically on medical and scientific films for ZDF (German TV)

Responsibilities: Strategic Alignment
Implementation of new organizational structures
Implementation of new controlling structures
Project controlling, sales controlling, reporting
Optimization of processes

Special Achievements: reduction of material usage rate by more than 5% points
Reduction of fixed costs by 20%
reduction of purchase prices
Implementation of a cost accounting
Dunning / receivable management

Reporting line: Chairman of the board of management
of the CompuGROUP Medical Holding AG

Exit: Sale after a successful restructuring

www.cgm.com

Company: leading global eHealth provider
software and communications solutions assist all healthcare stakeholder
and web platforms with advertising
stock listed company

Responsibilities: Controlling / Reporting
Implementation of new controlling structures
Implementation of new organizational structures
M&A-Projects

Reporting line: CEO

Functional topics: Finance / Controlling / Purchase

Special achievements: Increasing the speed of making the balance sheet
Purchase price reductions
Design and implementation of a capital reduction
with subsequent capital increase and squeeze-out

Special features: Expansion to 9 Hospitals and 9 counseling centers

Reporting line: CEO

Company: manufacturer of plastic packaging for the
food and pharmaceutical industry; high vertical integration
a subsidiary of Süd-KB (private equity-daughter of LBBW)

Functional topics: Finance / Controlling HR / Legal
Purchase / Logistics Strategy

Special achievements: Strategic realignment / turn-around
Implementation of a Management Information System
Improvement of the cost accounting
Complete refinancing of debt
Implementation of factoring
Significant reductions of purchase prices

Special features: Successful company sale after implementation of strategic realignment

Reporting line: CEO / shareholder Süd-KB

Company: Manufacturer of plastic packaging films
inter alia for the pharmaceutical industry
Market leader for films for cooking bags for rice

Functional topics: Finance / Controlling Logistics
Purchase HR / Legal

Special achievements: Turn-around
Reduction of material input, waste material and purchase prices
Material flow optimization
Increasing the speed of making the balance sheet
Implementation of a Management Information System
Implementation of a costing system
Implementation of factoring

Special features: Company sale after successful restructuring

Reporting line: Shareholder

at Wrede Industrieholding GmbH & Co. KG, Arnsberg www.wrede.de
(Holding: family owned group
Group: >1,000 employees, >200 million € turnover,)

Company: International corporate group
Several sectors

Functional topics: Eastern Europe
Banking / Finance
Holding controlling / preparation of board meetings
Balance sheets / Taxes
Strategy
M & A with due diligence and post merger integration
Interim management

Special achievements: Improvement of the investment controlling
Tax optimization
Improvement of banking conditions
Cost reduction measures
Successful post merger integrations
Interim management

Reporting line: CEO, shareholder

simultaneously
12/98 - 06/01 CEO of a real estate company

Company: real estate company and
business park with up to 30 commercial tenants

Functional topics: transformation of a disused factory
into a business park

Special achievements: Successful letting of commercial premisses
Turnaround
Complete refinancing
Successful sale to a real estate company

simultaneously
08/99 - 03/00 operational management / interim management of a subsidiary in Poland
Interprint Polska Sp. z o.o. www.interprint.pl

Company. Printing of decorative papers for furniture and flooring surfaces
Start-up of the Polish activities
New plant on a greenfield site

Functional topics: Banking / Finance
Controlling
Taxes (tax-exempt special economic zone)
Business development

Special achievements: Successful implementation of the administrative processes
Positive results in the first fiscal year
Tax exemption

Special features: "greenfield" investment
Tax exemption

simultaneously
12/96 - 12/97 operational management / interim management of a subsidiary in Poland
OKT Polska Sp. z o.o. www.okt.pl

Company: Production of plastic injection molded parts
inter alia for the Automotive industry
Post merger integration
Operational expansion

Functional topics: Post merger integration
Banking / Financing
Controlling
Business Development
Sales
Technology / Production

Special achievements: Expansion of the company
Implementation of controlling and reporting standards
Implementation of a Management Information System
Increase in sales prices despite falling commodity prices
Improving of the cost accounting
Improving of the liquidity
Improving of the results

Special features: Acquisition and relocation of the company into an own property
Doubling the production capacity
Expansion of the work force to 150 employees

Functional topics: Customer service (B2B)
Acquisition of new customers
Loan processing / "Berlindarlehen"

Special achievements: Successful customer acquisition
Outstanding sales success

Reporting line: Branch manager