Business Areas
I have been active within the following industries:
- Automobile Dealer
- Art
- Banking system technology
- Coffee Houses
- Drainage clearing/cleaning
- Electrical Industry
- Electricity Generation
- Electronics Industry
- Event Organiser
- Financial Services
- Holiday Parks
- Household goods production
- Information Technology
- Manure and planting pots and containers
- Mechanical Engineering
- Oil exploration
- Production Line Technology
- Public Relations
- Security Service Technology
- Service Industry
- Textile Industry
- Railway Production
Achievements
My work has brought me to…
The USA, Saudi-Arabia, Jordan, England, Russia and Korea. From 1991 until 1998 I was Head of finance in a corporation responsible for among other things, the introduction of a group financial controlling system for 100 subsidiaries and for the due diligence in respect of the take over of approximately 70 companies as well as having in parallel the responsibility for various other management positions. I oversaw the stock exchange listing of three companies, one of which was listed simultaneously in the USA (Nasdaq), Amsterdam and in Frankfurt.
Activities after retirement
At the end of 1998 I went into retirement, with 35 years management experience I became very bored, so to beat the boredom I have spent the past years almost without interruption, performing interim management and similar management tasks.
Listed below are the tasks and positions held since the Jan 1st 1999:
- 7 Supervisory board mandates
- Conversion from german HGB to US GAAP
- Audit
- Stockholder structure investigation
- Organisation of general share holder meetings
- Development of an MS Excel® based reporting application for planning and forecasting including balance sheet result calculation compared to budget
- Multiple introduction of this reporting system
- Cost analysis
- Examination and assessment of Business plans
- Multiple projects as an interim manager in commercial activities
- Introduction / Improvement of Controlling Systems
- Company revitalization
- Preparation for stock exchange listing
- Advice and support of start-ups
- Development of a calculation systems
- Rating consultation
- Introduction of risk management systems
- Out placement consultation
- Assistance and consulting support for student dissertations on the subject of interim management
- Assistance and consulting support in respect of change management
Appointment locations in placement order sequence are as follows:
Neuss • Stuttgart • New York • Dearborn/Michigan • Neuss • München • Neuss/Düsseldorf • Stuttgart • Frankfurt • Laichlingen • Moskau • Jordanien • Saudi Arabien • München • Denver/Colorado • München • Hannover • Celle • Berlin • Hamburg • Berlin • Arnsberg • Charlotte/NC • Neuss-Düsseldorf • München
From mid 2001 until February 2003, I held the position of Commercial Director for a worldwide distributor of household goods production (Berndes) in addition I have between May 2004 and February 2005 resolved various personnel problems at a daughter company of this distributor located in Charlotte, North Carolina USA which had been of concern to the Holding company in Germany. Thereafter I was appointed Commercial Director of Aglukon / Haug (fertilizer) in Dusseldorf. Currently I am CFO for the San Francisco Coffee Company (SFCC) in Munich, Germany.
Listed below in alphabetical sequence are the businesses I have supported since my retirement:
Aglukon Spezialdünger GmbH & Co KG • BE Semiconductor Industries • Berliner Elektro Holding AG/adcapital AG • Berndes Beteiligungs GmbH • Berndes Cookware, Inc. • Berndes Haushaltstechnik GmbH & Co. KG • BEWAG, Berlin • Bombardier GmbH • dvs Datenverarbeitungsgesellschaft - Sparkassenorganisation mbH • Elcosta Security Systems GmbH & Co. KG • emprise Management Consulting AG • Erlebnispark Haslinger Hof • euromicron AG • Executive Interim Management • Fink Import • Gruppe 7 IPO GmbH • r@teGo • san francisco coffee company • transtechnik GmbH • Unit Energy Europe AG • Wilhelm Haug GmbH & Co. KG • Zahnärztekammer Berlin