Karl Michael Grimm

About

* Executive with nearly 10-year experience in the automotive industry and further many years in other industries. * CFO / Executive Director with strong business focus, including business unit & functional management. * International leadership of teams across EMEA, North America and Asia. * Responsibilities and experiences in Finance and Accounting, Treasury, Controlling, Product Costing, IT, Risk Management and Compliance / Internal Audit / Insurance Coverage, Human Resources, Legal, Purchasing, Logistics and M&A / SPV´s. * Restructuring management in extreme business environments. * Working in Corporate, Private Equity and Owner managed environments. * Highest level of transparency, integrity and ethics in all aspects of decision-making. * More than three years member of Steuerausschuss des VDA Verbands der Automobilindustrie. * Member of supervisory board of PSD Bank Nürnberg eG.

Experience

• Interim-Manager at Director Finance of a company in the lodging industry, which manages several PropCo´s
  Aug 2023 - Jul 2025 · 2 yrs

• Interim-Manager at most recently as Interim-CFO of a company in the lighting business with 6 foreign subsidiaries
  Nov 2022 - Jul 2023 · 9 mos

• Executive Director Finance and Accounting / Leiter kaufmännischer Bereich at Preh Group
  Jan 2011 - Apr 2019 · 8 yrs 4 mos

  Preh Group as Tier 1 automotive supplier being also active in e-mobility has locations throughout the EU, North America and China altogether with more than 7,000 employees and achieved in 2018 an annual turnover of 1.3bn EUR.

• Head of Finance Department / Leiter Finanzabteilung at Koenig & Bauer
  Apr 2009 - Dec 2010 · 1 yr 9 mos

  Koenig & Bauer Group is worldwide one of the largest manufacturer of printing presses. In 2010 KBA had more than 20 legal entities throughout Europe, North America and Asia. At that time KBA achieved with about 7,000 employees an annual turnover of 1.2bn EUR

• Consultant at x
  Sep 2007 - Apr 2009 · 1 yr 8 mos