Karsten Richter

CTO bei SWD AG

Bern, Berne, Switzerland

About

Dr. Ansoff: Mastering Business and Product Development as well as Diversification with IP protection! I help you together with your team to develop and implement innovations to gain sustainable growth and margin. Business and Product Development in diverse industries and roles. Experienced in applying the Ansoff Matrix in your industry and market. Protecting the new business and/or product by IP.

Experience

  • CTO at SWD AG Stator- und Rotortechnik

  • Innovation Manager at Omya

    • Collecting and elaborating ideas out of core business • Creating of decision-making documents (Business Case) • Designing the idea collecting and management process incl. work shop with all involved departments

  • Head Of Engineering Suspension at DT Swiss

    • Leading the development team (8 employees) for Suspension (structural mechanics, hydraulics, high-precision components) • Strategic Product Manager Suspension (concurrently until 2017) • Implementation of the strategy (developed as the Product Manager) into a product roadmap & development project portfolio • Managing responsibilities from product definition to in-house production in Taiwan • Ensuring timely and cost-effective implementation of the product portfolio into innovative products • Project management of strategically important projects (e.g. digital controlled damping systems for adaptive chassis)

  • CEO at Cimcom AG

    • Responsibility for Profit and Loss (P&L) • Evaluation and implementation of strategy (based on SWOT, incl. Marketing) • Acquisition of customers and projects in Medical industry • Managing a company of 10 employees • Design and Simulation in Solid Works

  • Head of New Business and Product Development at mb-microtec ag

    Additional responsibilities (to New Business Development) • New Business Development trigalight: IP scouting, preparation, and implementation of IP rights acquisition to expand the market with own products and a new brand (www.swisatec.ch) • Financial innovation: sustainable increase of dividends (tax reduction) by initiating a patent box & creating necessary patents • Establishing the fundamentals in product development for systematic innovation development • Product innovation: doubling the brightness of trigalights® (including IP creation and validation of manufacturing processes) • Increasing value with new product (FPI) by expanding functionality while simultaneously cutting manufacturing costs by half (including IP protection and implementation of FPI into production) • Active IP management (IP strategy), incl. 12 patents in 3 years

  • Head Of New Business Development at mb-microtec ag

    New Business Development • SWOT analyses and recommended actions, • Analyses and clustering of companies and Start-ups • Preparation of M&A deals • Developing and presentation of basis for a decision for the advisory board • Searching for opportunities for organic growth