Global specialized consulting company with offices & consultants located Cologne, Philadelphia and Shanghai supporting companies in Market & Business Strategy, New Business Development and Commercial Excellence.Over the past 20 years Daydream served > 120 customers, 30% being part of the TOP 100 chemical companies in the world as classified by ICIS

At Chemverde I work since 2009 as market expert and business advisor. I provide well known specialty chemicals producers and start-ups with hands-on strategic and operational support, drawing on my extensive experience and network in the specialty chemicals industry. Some examples of assignements:• Strategic market analysis and assessment of business opportunities for plant based chemistry ( resins, polyols, solvents, surfactants, binders, cross-linker) • Strategy definition, Business Plan & Roadmap for surfactants in markets like crop protection, construction, coatings or synthetic lubricants) • Multiple New Business Development projects • Critical review of the life-cycle analysis of first generation biofuels, a study financed by the French environment agency ADEME.

Ceramhyd has been a clean tech company that developed a proprietary ceramic ionic exchange membrane technology with applications in the field of hydrogen production, fuel cells, chlor-alkali industries and water treatment through electrolysis. RWE Innogy was the main industrial investor.

·Responsible for the strategy by technology segment & region and the key market development projects linked to the business worth 85 million € in turnover.·Set up and drive innovation projects and identify new business opportunities in the civil engineering / construction market.·Renewed market strategy set up & execution based upon innovations in environmental friendly products.

·Responsible for the sales & marketing of products to the top players in construction Chemicals worldwide.·Market development to enter new fields in the construction industry.

·Responsible for the global marketing strategy of chemicals to a diversity of industries ( Biotechnology, Food, Pharmaceutical (API), Industrial Formulators incl. Construction Chemicals), worth 60 million € in turnover.·Initiator and main driver in the acquisition of a competitor ( including the due diligence process)·Set up and managed 5 technical symposiums

Initially in Food Additives , later Paper Chemicals and Specialty Chemicals