Greater Hamburg Area
As an Entrepreneurial Leader and Turnaround and Restructuring Strategy Professional, I bring a wealth of experience and a proven track record of driving success, achieving profitability, and fostering a culture of continuous growth and excellence. With over 25 years of senior executive experience across various brands and products, I have consistently provided dynamic strategic, financial, and operational leadership in the face of evolving technology, cost pressures, talent shifts, and uncertainty. My agile leadership approach, encompassing turnaround management, is rooted in relationship building with unwavering integrity. I continuously work towards empowering and engaging individuals to achieve the company's vision and financial success. As a hands-on leader, I actively contribute to the profitability and growth of organizations, whether in the consumer products space, both B2B and B2C. I have been responsible for profit & loss management and navigating complex legal entity structures, effectively utilizing and organizational restructuring skills. Throughout my career, I've successfully turned distressed organizations back and set them on a path of success, implementing intelligent financial and strategic decisions combined with a synergistic people approach that leverages my leadership skills. I have consistently achieved strong leadership performance goals, demonstrating the ability to drive a step change in enterprise value by building winning organizations. My solid track record includes delivering growth with commercial experience managing P/Ls of up to ZAR3 billion, implementing successful go-to-market strategies, and innovative models for consumer demand creation. In addition to my extensive experience, I bring a diverse skill set, including mergers and acquisitions expertise. I have also served as a President and board member, further enriching my strategic and leadership acumen. My commitment remains unwavering - to drive success, achieve profitability, and foster a culture of continuous growth and excellence. My interests outside of work include cycling, fly fishing, and shooting clays, and I am an avid reader.
As a hands-on leader, I actively contribute to the profitability and growth of the organization. I play a key role in leading the company on transformational change, capability building, problem-solving, team management, and commercial strategy. Additionally, I proactively identify and address operational challenges, risks, and opportunities to drive the success of the business.
Achieved record results, both operationally and financially. Re-scripted the strategy, re-aligned the brand and built a motivated and successful corporate culture. • P&L– including meeting targets for Income, Profitability, EBITDA, Net Working Capital, etc. • Develop and implement a strategy and annual business plans for Sensient and build an effective pipeline of sales opportunities • Built trust relationships with shareholders, business partners and authorities. Focused on the development of individuals, ensuring that employees utlize their full potential • Provide strategic and sustainable advice to the Board
Implementation of new Global Strategy and Go-to-market (GTM) Structure resulting in financial success and a foundation for growth and success. • Developed key customer and stakeholder relations within a complex environment • Fostered an entrepreneurial and high performance culture Achievements: Changed and executed a new global strategy for RDM, achieving financial success and setting the business for future growth.
Re-aligned manufacturing units nationally, selling the business from the JSE to LSE listed company, achieving a doubling of the share price • Execution of a systematic pipelining sales approach • Structured the GTM blueprint, strengthening competitive advantage • Improved risk, control and oversight processes
Implemented a turnaround strategy growing the business significantly in 8 years, leading the Southern Africa acquisition and growth strategy • Grew market share through innovative solutions to major brands • Met corporate reporting requirement, ensuring compliance and risk mitigation • Build a high performance culture with effective management teams
Built an agricultural startup into a company with strong brand positioning • Implemented scalable systems, market strategy, manufacturing and raised working capital • Build multiple revenue streams, B2B and B2C