Basel Metropolitan Area
>20 years of experience as Senior C-Level Executive in 4 continents (Europe/US/Africa/Asia) • 12 years Senior Executive Management in UPS, Geodis, Consulting and Group Prodo • 11 years Midlevel Management through Day Interactive, Sun MicroSystems, Consulting and UPS • 4 years Senior Midlevel Management in UPS Key Compentences • Optimization expertise in highly margin-driven industries such as transportation, logistics and IT/Telecom, to be leveraged into sectors such as pharma, healthcare, construction, or MedTech • >15years of cross functional leadership experience gained through lead of committees, overall initiative control and responsible for strategy & budget, control process • Transition and change management lead including M&A / PM Integration, digitalization and governance • Balance Sheet and P&L optimization (Activity Based Costing) and simplification, consolidation • Leadership of divisions over 120 Finance HC with up to 6 direct reports International, Cultural, Organization, lived and worked, languages • Lived & Worked in Switzerland, Germany, Italy, France • Short Assignments up to 12months in Dubai, USA, UK, IT • Project work in Asia/USA/Europe/Africa • Fluent, trilingual German, English & French Education: Business School Basel, Commercial Diploma, Trade/Freight Forwarding. University of Plymouth, MA IBA focus Finance. Harvard Business School, Certified Diploma Disruptive Management Key Successes • IPO with Day Interactive in Switzerland as Corporate Controller, Due Diligence, (2001) • Set up and implementation of new Business Process Review Audit for UPS SCS WorldWide, with focus on Operational Finance, Budgeting, Expense Control and Governance & Compliance (FCPA regulated), (2008) • Administrate and merge of 35 entities into 5 remaining entities in the UPS Europe Region, (2010) • Transition in UPS Transportation Cologne, Impacting Billing Europe, Finance and European Air Network, (2013) • Lead PM Integration in Finance & Operation of Kiala EUR 100M for UPS France, 2017 • Lead implementation and set up of a new Signing Organization for Project & Asset Business & Investment Control for Geodis International, (2023)
Spearheaded financial transformation and integration of Groupe Portmann into the Swiss Post Cargo network. Ensured robust governance to enhance financial efficiency and overall productivity. Collaborated with cross-functional teams to streamline financial, operational and commercial processes and optimize resource allocation.
Board Consulting, Corporate Finance, Financial, Operational and Commercial Transition Projects. Lead Post Merger Integrations and Consolidations.
Assessing and reviewing the effects of transformational projects to guarantee their alignment with the company's objectives and goals.
Advising C-Level in operational/financial and commercial efficiency. Lead the Global Investment department identifying and mitigating risk.
Management Board of France Heading Finance Accounting and Procurement. Integration and Change Management
Animation and coordination of finance functions in France, the Netherlands / Belgium, Spain, Portugal, Nigeria and South Africa, Development of KPIs on commercial, operational and financial initiatives.
Management Board of Cologne Hub Control of the operational costs of AIR and Road Cologne Hub. Cost management of the European air transport network & Collect billing Europe