• Entrepreneur at heart, building businesses around a value driven approach and thus achieving the next level of corporate growth. Empowering management teams to act confidently on international management stage.• Experienced industry advisor and executive for private equity funded businesses in transformational state. Expert for corporate restructuring and leadership in traditional and regulated business environments.• Controlling savvy corporate architect for medium sized businesses in high growth scenarios on a global scale, building on expansive sales and innovative product management strategy.• Operational Excellence: Funding and constructing factories in China and India under German quality management objectives.• Industry leading executive in the water and the lighting industry. Longest serving CEO in the valve business in Germany. Extracurricular engagements:• Guest professor at Tongji University Shanghai for wastewater management and sewerage• Philanthropic founder of Rose foundation to build education infrastructure for impoverished street children in Hyderabad, India.