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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.

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

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.

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.
• 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.

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