**Experienced CEO and Board Director** with extensive intercultural leadership skills and proficiency in the Chinese language, particularly in the capital goods industry, plant engineering, mechanical engineering, special machinery, tool and die manufacturing, mold industry, plastics industry, recycling, plastics processing, and plastic packaging.**Key Areas of Expertise:**Business Management: Successfully managed and grew multimillion-euro businesses as CEO of global market leaders in turnkey solutions and machinery, overseeing multiple entities in Europe, the USA and Asia. **Sales and Marketing:** Expertise in global sales and marketing management, strategic positioning, value-based management, and the introduction of value-based pricing models, along with international key account management.**Market Strategy Development:** Designing and implementing strategies for premium suppliers to penetrate and lead in competitive mid-markets, developing business models for cost-effective solutions to capture significant market shares.**Strategic Implementation:** Skilled in strategy development and execution, change management, and the international transfer of value-added processes. Setting up global production planning and control systems.**Turnaround Management:** Proven track record in managing turnaround situations effectively.**Performance Management:** Overseeing shareholding management and performance for multimillion-euro businesses across Austria, China, the Czech Republic, Germany, Mexico, and Ukraine.**Innovation Management:** Establishing systems and strategies for innovation, focusing on digitalization and virtual services in mechanical engineering, machine building, and tool and die manufacturing.**Start-Up Support:** Successfully managed start-ups and greenfield projects, building businesses from scratch for private equity firms and family-owned enterprises.**Sustainability Initiatives:** Development and implementation of global sustainability programs, providing solutions for energy efficiency, material conservation, scrap reduction, closed-loop solutions, and minimizing CO2 emissions.Keywords: CEO, Vorstand, Geschäftsführer, Managing Director, General Manager, Business Development, Leadership, CSO, COO, Senior Executive, Board Director, Chairman of the Board, Supervisory Board, Aufsichtsrat, Certified Supervisory Expert, Sales Director, Vice President Sales, China, Chinese, Asia