Biography
Work Experience:
Since 2012: Active investor in automotive/mobility start-ups (6 ventures currently); close cooperation with Earlybird (largest German venture capital fund) as co-investor and venture partner and at Improved CF (M&A boutique) as an associate partner for automotive/mobility topics
1993 – current: Bain & Company Germany, Inc. (Munich, London, Tokyo, Zurich)
1993 – 1995: Management Consultant
1995 – 1998: Manager, Project Leader
1999 – 2005: Vice President and Partner
2006 – 2011: Director and Senior Partner
2012 – 2013: Advisory Partner (40%)
since 2014: Senior Advisor for Automotive and E-Mobility topics
1995 – 2004: Member of the German Recruiting Team
2000 – 2010: Member of the German Professional Development Committee
2001 – 2007: Head of the German Organizational Practice
2002 – 2005: Co-Head of the German Industrial Goods & Services Practice
2002 – 2011: Head of the German Automotive Practice
2005 – 2011: Head of the European & Global Automotive Practice
Focus: Corporate and BU Strategy, Operations/Restructuring, Private Equity
Industries: Automotive (OEMs & Suppliers), General Industry, Aerospace, Telecom
Geographies: Worked on site in Japan, the US, the UK, Italy, and China
Other: Managing/leading large, international teams for the last fifteen years
1990 – 1993: Daimler-Benz AG, now Daimler AG (Stuttgart)
1990 – 1991: International corporate trainee program
1991 – 1993: Member of the debitel management board
1992: Promotion to Daimler-Benz Area Manager (“Abteilungsleiter”)
1987 – 1990: Messerschmitt-Bölkow-Blohm GmbH, now part of Airbus Group (Munich)
Project Engineer in the Electronics and Defense Division
Focus on radar and other sensor development / software simulation
1984: Sikorsky Aircraft / United Technologies (Westport CT, USA)
Three months internship program in their helicopter division
IPTN/Nurtanjo (Bandung, Indonesia)
Two months internship program in their civil aircraft division
Education:
1972 – 1981: High School (“Gymnasium”) in Hamburg, Germany
1981 – 1986: Technical University of Munich, Germany
Diploma in Aeronautical Engineering with honors
Credits in Business Administration
1987 – 1990: Gerhard Mercator University Duisburg, Germany
Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering (magna cum laude)