Newfoundland, New Jersey, United States
PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY Experienced leader, strategics, decision maker and get it done person: * Leadership: Helping people to perform above expectation. * People Focus: Understanding, training, coaching, and team building. * Convincing: Prepared, focused, dedicated, and cooperative. * Strategic: Analytical, quantitative selection, decision making and execution. * Customer Focus: Clients first, customer service, people caring, positive attitude. * Knowledge: Building and sharing knowledge in multiple dimensions. * Managing: Detailing the overall task to manage individual units. * Energy: Personal presence, persistent, enjoying and sharing. EDUCATION Technische Hochschule Darmstadt, Diplom Wirtschafts-Ingenieur: Comparable American degrees: Master of Science and Master of Business Administration. Constant participated in knowledge and personal development. Fluent in English/German/Spanish; some fluency in French and Portuguese; basic knowledge in Italian. SPECIAL AREAS OF EXPERTISE * Technology * Multicultural * Idea Development * Financial Markets * Industrial Markets * Consumer Markets
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Executive Vice President Lapp Holding North America Responsibility: Lapp USA, Lapp Canada, Lapp Mexico, Lapp Tannehill, Lapp Systems, Lapp Cable Works, Lapp Holding Professional Experiences with Lapp Holding North America (Florham Park, New Jersey) In 6 years with Lapp Holding NA a business turnaround for the six affiliated was achieved by: doubling the individual and overall revenues of the Lapp Companies, leading the companies from severe problems in 2002 to double digit returns, starting 2004 (2-3 times of the industry standard). Two most important affiliates, highly dependent on slowing down North American markets, were lead to new business areas, the revenues doubled and the profitability quadrupled. The business of Lapp Mexico came from a business loss situation to prosperous growth with high double digit returns. Lapp Mexico was awarded for the fiscal year 2007 as the best managed company of the Lapp Group worldwide. An acquired distribution company which was not able to service their acquisition loans was doubled in annual revenue and branched out for prosperous growth and high returns. A production plant with capacity utilization of less than half of one shift and as result of this producing high losses, today works on a tripled capacity and with three shifts. One loss leading affiliate (cable assembly business) was downsized brought to profitable growth and merged into Lapp USA.
EMTEC Group Luwdigshafen (Germany) Key achievements and goals were: setting up EMTEC Consumer Media as an independent Company; making a successful brand change from BASF to EMTEC at the consumer products, which was achieved with market share gain; restructuring the European affiliates into four key regions instead of 12 independent subsidiaries; starting up a now successful business in Asia, starting up a new company in the US; concluding a cost saving program of about 15 mill €, building a new and accepted market and sales strategy with focus on innovative and new products. Building an international team of highly skilled and motivated managers with increased responsibility, vision, persistence, financial know how, positive thinking, allowed the progress made, in a fairly complicate market and business environment. Responsibility for 200 employees in corporate and sales functions world wide, as 500 people in two manufacturing sites at EMTEC Consumer Media GmbH, reporting annual sales of about 300 mill €. Within the EMTEC International Holding I shared responsibility with two other presidents for 600 mill € revenue and 2600 employees worldwide.