Christoph Schmidt

About

Experience

• CWS Group (Full-time · 3 yrs 7 mos)
  • Head of Product Portfolio & Innovation | Division Hygiene
    May 2023 - Present · 3 yrs 2 mos

  • Head of Sales & Commercial Excellence | Division Hygiene
    Dec 2022 - May 2023 · 6 mos

• Haniel (Duisburg, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany)
  • Investment Manager
    Jan 2020 - Dec 2022 · 3 yrs

  • Analyst | Corporate Development / M&A
    Feb 2019 - Dec 2019 · 11 mos

• Strategy Consultant at Monitor Deloitte
  Jun 2017 - Jan 2019 · 1 yr 8 mos

  Monitor Deloitte is Deloitte’s strategy consulting team. - Industry experience: Automotive, Energy, Healthcare - Functional experience: Strategy, M&A, Innovation - Geographical experience: Germany, China, Netherlands

• Master Thesis | Platform & Ecosystem Strategy at RWTH Aachen Technology and Innovation Management Group
  Sep 2016 - Mar 2017 · 7 mos

  - Title: "From pipes to platforms - An empirical study investigating the role of openness in business ecosystems" - Written at the Technology and Innovation Management Group at RWTH Aachen University under supervision of Prof. Frank T. Piller - Based on a cooperation project with the Ford Research and Innovation Center - Grade: 1,0

• Working Student | Trendscouting & Corporate Development at Trianel GmbH
  Feb 2016 - Jul 2016 · 6 mos

  - Carried out a technical and economic analysis of decentralized energy supply Technologien with a focus on heat pumps - Co-authored internal publications about the e-mobility market and the use of flat-rate tariffs in the electricity market - Worked in several projects on the digitalization of the energy market, e.g. a municipal utility app or SEO Marketing for municipal utilities