Fabian Meißner

Elevating mass sporting events through custom-made finisher and merchandise solutions

Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

About

Pole Position is Europe’s leading supplier of finisher and merchandise items for mass sporting events. We specialize in running, triathlons and bike races. We are proud to work with global series like Spartan, Ironman, and Xletix, as well as many of the most renown running events globally. We offer: - Full service solutions: We handle everything from design, manufacturing, and transport to warehousing and just-in-time delivery to your event-venue. - Merchandise collections: We develop complete finisher and merchandise collections for sale online and at your event. - Affiliate program: Our program allows events to earn profits from automatically generated 3D team shirt designs through our WRBLS brand (www.wrbls.eu).

Experience

  • Head of Sales & Business Development at Pole Position Textiles International GmbH
    Sep 2025 - Present · 11 mos

    Pole Position is a top European supplier of finisher and merchandise items for mass sporting events. We specialize in running, obstacle races, triathlons, and bike races. We are proud to work with global series like Spartan, Ironman, and Xletix, as well as many of the most renown running events globally. We offer: - Full service solutions: We handle everything from design, manufacturing, and transport to warehousing and just-in-time delivery for your event. - Merchandise collections: We develop complete finisher and merchandise collections for sale online and at your event. - Affiliate program: Our program allows events to earn profits from automatically generated 3D team shirt designs through our WRBLS brand (www.wrbls.eu).

  • Head of Customer Success & Project Management at RE: GmbH
    Oct 2022 - Aug 2025 · 2 yrs 11 mos

    - Responsible for account management, customer support, project management and professional services - Built team and processes from scratch - Serving >50 active clients globally

  • Head Of Sales at ACCURE Battery Intelligence
    Jan 2022 - Jun 2022 · 6 mos

    ACCURE is a deep tech startup offering software as a service to make batteries more safe, reliable and efficient. • Responsible for sales and reporting line to the CEO • Hired and led team consisting of four sales professionals • Developed end-to-end sales process • Ran key account management selling to automotive OEMs and utilities • Introduced CRM system (HubSpot) as the tool for international sales collaboration and reporting Left the company due to a restructuring of the sales department.

  • Norican Group ()
    • VP Sales Europe Equipment & Global Sales Support - StrikoWestofen
      Sep 2019 - Dec 2021 · 2 yrs 4 mos

      StrikoWestofen is a private-equity owned, mid-sized German mechanical engineering company. It is the world-market leading manufacturer of furnaces for the production of aluminium cast parts. · Responsible for European sales of machines and support function for China and US team · Led team of 10 sales professionals · P&L responsibility with direct reporting line to CEO, turnover of 25m € • Mainly selling to automotive OEMs as well as Tier 1 and 2 suppliers

    • Director Business Development - DISA, Italpresse & StrikoWestofen
      Oct 2017 - Aug 2019 · 1 yr 11 mos

      DISA is a private-equity owned Danish mid-sized mechanical engineering company. It is the world-market leading manufacturer of moulding technology for the production of iron cast parts. Italpresse is a private-equity owned Italian mid-sized mechanical engineering company. It is one of the world-market leading manufacturers of die casting technology for the production of aluminium cast parts. · Spearheaded various strategic transformation projects including a technology transfer to China and building out sales organizations globally · Developed the Group's Industrial IoT strategy and participated in the founding of corporate venture

    • Executive Assistant to CEO & Manager Business Development - StrikoWestofen
      Apr 2016 - Oct 2017 · 1 yr 7 mos

      · Spearheaded various strategic change projects including opening of new sales offices and integration of acquired business unit · Supported top management and private equity fund in the successful sale of the company · Led post merger integration of StrikoWestofen and Norican