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Düsseldorf Area, Germany

Düsseldorf Area, Germany

Düsseldorf Area, Germany

• Team of executives and entrepreneurs who deliver innovative growth.• Know-how to develop companies in today’s business environment.• Overcome conventional thinking to create tailored ways to grow.

Ratingen, Germany

• Harmonizing the German entities within the neXus Group and group-wide coordination in the respective product portfolio• Implementing the Swedish card bureau service as a key element of the value change. Initializing the change from hardware vendor to service provider. Important Results:- Wining large media company as major and highly complex account for personalization of corporate ID as a service

Ratingen, Germany

Founder / Managing director• Managing director from 2009 – till December 2013. Full responsibility for all legal, financial and strategic decisions • Setting software requirements and designing a go-to-market-strategy• Organizational set-up incl. clear work processes and training of a future managing director.• Budget planning, cost control and initiating and enabling corrections where necessary.• Signing annual balance• Since January 2014 senior consultant for… Show more Founder / Managing director• Managing director from 2009 – till December 2013. Full responsibility for all legal, financial and strategic decisions • Setting software requirements and designing a go-to-market-strategy• Organizational set-up incl. clear work processes and training of a future managing director.• Budget planning, cost control and initiating and enabling corrections where necessary.• Signing annual balance• Since January 2014 senior consultant for specific projects• Important Result: Speed Biometrics GmbH is the leading supplier of self-service enrollment kiosk-systems with life-capture of biometric data for national ID. As a pioneer the company developed the first government-certified ID-Machine in Germany. Show less

Düsseldorf Area, Germany

• Turnaround management in 2005/2006, incl. change-management following a new strategic business setup • Introduction of an organizational structure• Important results: - Significant efficiency gains and cost savings­- Strong expansion of customer base / product portfolio- Growth strategy with the acquisition of a competitor - increased revenue from 2006 to 2012 over 300%- Sale of Intraproc to neXus Technology AB, Stockholm 11/2013

Munich Area, Germany

Key Account Manager• Key accounting o2 Germany (Telefonica) and Siemens ICM in Munich• Strong expansion of sales with o2 Germany through new projects and products• Winning projects with Siemens mobile• Important result: sales increase over 200% in two years

Munich Area, Germany

Product Line Manager Multimedia Messaging• Creating and marketing the MMS portfolio• Channel Manager for application partners• Running strategic „Messaging“ projects • Siemens spokes person at the Mobile Payment Forum „Mobey“Important project: : Lauching the first MMS-Service Centers for Siemens in Bahrain

Stuttgart Area, Germany

Project manager S-CARD Service GmbH• Project leader for projects in card based payments• Consulting corporate clients and banks within the Sparkassen financial group• Marketing strategy of the e-purse „GeldKarte“ for the Sparkassen financial groupImportant project: GeldKarte at cigarette vending machines- Coordinating all stake holders from suppliers, industry, politics and vending machine operators­- Project goal reached: since 2001 all cigarette vending ma-chines in… Show more Project manager S-CARD Service GmbH• Project leader for projects in card based payments• Consulting corporate clients and banks within the Sparkassen financial group• Marketing strategy of the e-purse „GeldKarte“ for the Sparkassen financial groupImportant project: GeldKarte at cigarette vending machines- Coordinating all stake holders from suppliers, industry, politics and vending machine operators­- Project goal reached: since 2001 all cigarette vending ma-chines in Germany use Geldkarte for age verification Show less

Ratingen, Germany

Head of Sales and Marketing (01/1995 – 12/1998)• Acquisition and managing medium and large clients• Expanding the international dealer network• Product marketing and development of communication strategyBusiness development Mexico (11/1993 – 12/1994)• Founding and Starting a subsidiary in Mexico-City (INTRAPROC de Mexico, Mexico-City)• Start-up work, sales of card personalization systems• Successful market entry