Anders Kottenauer Email & Phone Number

Linköping, Östergötland County, Se

CEO of a publicly traded technology company (Nasdaq First North) providing complex positioning and motion solutions (involving electronics, software, material science and mechanics), serving a large global customer base (EU, NA and APAC) of well known OEMs and research institutes in industries such as medical devices, life science, semicon and optics. The business involves multi-site R&D, direct and indirect sales, marketing, and muliti-site operations.Have managed a significant turnaround of a loss making business into a 10x higher revenue, high organic growth and high profitability business. The turnaround has included change of overall strategy, change of go to market model, R&D restructuring and re-build, product portfolio expansion, overall organizational and cultural changes, improved processes and closing and successful integration of M&A targets. The transformation has also included significantly improved financial planning forecastand cashflow management, raising significant amount of capital from mutual funds and other institutional investors as well as repositioning and re-branding of the company in the financial markets.

Akron, Oh, Us

General Management with full P&L responsibility of a global business unit that include sales, marketing, product management, engineering/technology, operations and finance functions operating with sites and teams in North America, Europe and Asia. The business unit is involved with complex customized performance critical thermal management solutions (hardware/electrical/software) for large OEMs within medical devices, analytical instrumentation, telecom and certain industrial applications.Have managed a significant turnaround of the business in terms of growth and profitability which has moved the business from very low organic growth into strong market growth outperformer in parallel with very strong profitability improvement. The turnaround has included full integration of several businesses, footprint simplification which has included manufacturing and engineering site moves during a very short time period, significant change of business unit management and strengthening of overall leadership, expansion of functional capabilities, implementation of global processes for project management, business control and forecasting and build-up of a global OEM customer base across regions.

Akron, Oh, Us

Global product management role with direct reports in regions, that included responsibility for gross margin, strategic priorities and manufacturing planning.Achieved strong growth and significant clarity of strategy, product portfolio and product lead time improvements. Multiple functional interfaces in different global locations that required very strong collaboration capabilities and cultural understanding.

Vélizy-Villacoublay, Fr

A PLM (Product Lifecycle Management) software sales and consulting company, part of the Dassault Systèmes Group, the world’s leading PLM solutions provider. The customer base is mainly within medium to large size companies within industry segments such as automotive, aerospace, fabrication & assembly and power & process.P&L responsibility for Transcat PLM AB, direct subsidiary of HQ in Paris. Direct management of sales representatives (direct sales) and IT consultants and overall responsibility for operations and finance.

Stockholm, Se

Security systems business entity within the ASSA ABLOY Group.Responsible for sales and marketing and overall responsibility for order, logistics and purchasing departments (outsourced electronics manufacturing).Also managed large security system platform development project involving internal developers and external consultants. The project included development of new system software, embedded software and hardware.Temporary P&L responsibility as part of the interim business unit manager position.

Overall business responsibility for new sales and aftermarket for cars and commercial vehicles for Western and Southern Sweden.

Södertälje, Se

Support and Business development for distributors and direct controlled sales companies in Middle East, Africa and Asia. Work partly performed in parallel with university studies.

Master Of Science, Finance, Economics

Master Of Engineering, Electrical/Computer Engineering

Mba