Chris Schindler

CFO│Senior Corporate Finance Executive│Automotive & Health Care

Frankfurt, Hesse, Germany

About

C-level executive with extensive international advisory and general management experience. Lead partner on numerous advisory assignments for multi-billion dollar engagements in the automotive and telecommunications sectors. Broad P&L responsibility, entrepreneurship and practice development track record. Financial executive with wide exposure to strategic planning, international accounting, controlling, valuations and financial consulting. Partner-level experience since 1993 in the fields of corporate finance, M&A, restructuring and corporate turnaround. Specialties: # General Management # Corporate and Practice Leadership # Business Development # Mergers & Acquisitions, Divestitures # Performance Improvement and Turnaround # Corporate Finance # Valuations # Innovation and Strategic Planning Seeking CFO / management position or advisory role with emphasis on M&A/Strategy/PMI/Restructuring.

Experience

  • Senior Advisor at Clairfield International
    Jun 2025 - Present · 1 yr 1 mo

  • Senior Advisor at Saxenhammer & Co.
    Jun 2020 - Present · 6 yrs 1 mo

  • Sr. Business Advisor at Independent
    Oct 2013 - Present · 12 yrs 9 mos

    Strategic, marketing and transactional consulting.

  • Senior Advisor at Ernst & Young GmbH Wirtschaftsprüfungsgesellschaft
    Apr 2017 - Mar 2018 · 1 yr

    Senior Advisor in EY’s Transaction Advisory Services (TAS) service line. My primary mission was to provide TAS capital transformation and transaction support solutions to Automotive OEM and first-tier clients in support of their troubled supplier management requirements.

  • Managing Director at Utor Consult GmbH
    Nov 2011 - Sep 2013 · 1 yr 11 mos

    European M&A, corporate finance and restructuring advisory activities