Member of the Vacuum Technique Business Area leadership team (~ USD 4bn P&L / ~ 12k employees) with global responsibility for the Scientific Vacuum Division.At Atlas Copco Scientific Vacuum, we help science improve our lives by developing and manufacturing high-technology vacuum pumps, vacuum equipment and vacuum systems that enable scientific research and deliver real-world solutions. Products are offered under the Edwards, Leybold, Gamma Vacuum, Montana Instruments and NOY brands to customers across the Analytical Instrument, R&D, Coating, Space, High Energy Physics and Quantum Physics market sectors.

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Member of the supervisory board (Aufsichtsrat) of Leybold GmbH overseeing our largest factory, sales and legal entity operations in Germany.

Nowvac aims to change the way vacuum technology is bought and sold online. Our mission is to accelerate the vacuum industry’s transition to the digital world. Our vision is to bring the best minds together in the industry, giving them a place to share information, technology and ideas in pursuit of discovering new frontiers in science. Nowvac is a simple to use, online vacuum tech social marketplace; we make buying vacuum technology a reality online.

Leading all Leybold operations from sales, service and remanufacturing of vacuum equipment to design, engineering and assembly of vacuum systems & solutions in North America (Mexico, USA and Canada) with full profit & loss and balance sheet responsibility. Leybold is a leader in a USD 2bn market for industrial and scientific vacuum technology in North America.Key achievements included:+ Delivered strong and profitable 2-digit growth rates, 3 years in a row in a well established industry and challenging market environment.+ Formulated and implemented a new Mission, Vision and Strategy to grow into untapped markets and strengthened our footprint in well established environments.+ Successfully integrated Leybold into the Atlas Copco Group post-merger / acquisition in September 2016.+ Transformed our North America organization to an open, transparent and collaborative value-driven culture defined through inclusive & inspiring leadership from the whole team and empowered through contemporary communication tools and practices.+ Digitized the way we collaborate, work, market, sell and communicate, driven by our shared belief that there is always a better way to do things.+ Transformed a legacy marketing & communications organization to a pure ROI data-driven marketing mindset along the entire customer journey, digital and analogue to ensure Leybold is where our customers are.Our mission is to bridge the gaps between B2C and B2B sales to a H2H = Human to Human mindset, the way we do business and the way our customers experience doing business with us, across all industries we play in:+ Space and Aerospace Technologies+ Steel, Heat Treatment & Metallurgy+ Automotive, Battery & Electronics+ Semiconductors, Solar & Display+ Food & Beverage Processing & Packaging+ Analytical Instruments & Medical Devices+ National Labs, R&D & all Universities+ Hyperloop, Transportation & Infrastructureand countless more

Leadership of business development team for Leybold worldwide(+1.600 employees / global organization).Leading the segment's business development to identify, prepare and support growth opportunities - both organic and inorganic (including i.e. green and brown field approaches, M&A, JVs, strategic partnerships):+ One of the key strategic partnerhips developed was to establish Leybold's today leading role as vacuum system expert and supplier for all major Hyperloop projects from California to the Middle East.+ Another cooperation established was with the leader in B2B Augmented Reality services, Re’flekt GmbH to empower Leybold to become the first player in the industry to pioneer augmented reality solutions for sales and service.Identified alternative business models (incl. new sales channels, such as e-commerce channels and digital strategies) and alliance opportunities, which led to:+ A successful re-launch of Leybold's website and online shop in September 2016+ One of the first strategic long-term cooperations of Google with a German SME+ The launch and expansion of Leybold's social media presence + The development of a pure ROI driven Marketing & Communications strategyConstantly suggested and supported innovation in approaching markets and customers by developing existing and new markets and applications, products and business models.Lead during M&A process (both transaction and integration phase, including the identification of targets, their evaluation, deal-preparation, closing, post-merger integration), which ultimately led to the very successful divestment of Leybold from the Swiss Oerlikon Group to the Swedish Atlas Copco Group in September 2016, where I led integration projects post merger until taking up a new responsibility to lead the North American business for Leybold in early 2017.

Leadership of Oerlikon Leybold Vacuum Greater China organization (3 legal entities / 6 locations in China & Taiwan).Member of Board of Directors at Oerlikon Taiwan.Driving organizational and structural design of legal entities to increase efficiency.Full Profit & Loss and Balance Sheet responsibility for 3 legal entities with direct reporting line to regional president and functional reporting line to global segment CFO.Planning of budgets and forecasts, long-term business plans and their compliance.Leading, stabilizing and developing the finance and IT team (15 direct reports).Set-up compliant processes, including policies and directives for entire Greater China.Set-up an internal control system (ICS) to monitor effectiveness of compliance.Set-up regular management reporting with daily, weekly and monthly reports and organized monthly management team reviews.Regional risk management, including financial and operational risks.Relationship management with local authorities and governmental institutions as well as banks, lawyers and auditors.

Global responsibility for the segment’s cash position and liquidity incl. bank accounts, credit and guarantee lines and all sales finance activities for a business of CHF 2bn sales in 2012 with more than 6.200 employees across 45 legal entities on all continents.Start-up and Leadership of a then new Textile segment Finance, Treasury and Risk Management organization with direct reporting line to segment CFO with 22 functional reports globally.Implementation of a global investment controlling process to steer and optimize all of the segment’s 45 legal entities worldwide.Implementation of a weekly and monthly cash-flow forecast process and related reports.Definition and implementation of a new risk management process and reporting process towards the group.Segment wide responsibility for all internal audit related topics, incl. management of all corrective measures.Member of Financial Leadership Team of Oerlikon Textile.

Ownership of all management reports, sales and cash-flow forecasts and their respective IT-systems (especially IBM Cognos Controller and Microsoft Sharepoint)Roll-out of a balanced scorecard for the segment and business unit management teamMigration of former financial reporting and consolidation tool to new Cognos Controller 8. Spent 10 months at the group’s headquarter in Switzerland to drive and support the project lead for the global Oerlikon groupSet-up working capital controlling reports and processes and defined and tracked actions with 5 business units during monthly status reviews on siteDesigned and installed operational excellence KPI boards for each factory worldwide (36 boards at 19 locations) to create worldwide common understanding of operational excellence, using the same KPIs to measure progress.The initiative received a “Global Leadership Award” from Oerlikon Group

Trainee in M&A at Oerlikon SpaceTrainee in Finance & Controlling at Oerlikon Textile