• Senior-level professional with more than 3 decades of general management, sales and marketing leadership experience in the life science industry.• P+L responsibility and sharp financial acumen demonstrated in both entrepreneurial start-up and mature blue-chip company settings.• Innovative change agent with record of success in turnaround management and strategic redirection of organizations towards profitability and dynamic growth objectives.• Analytical, process-oriented manager combined with hands-on mentality providing structure to rapidly evolving organizations.• Solid business leader with strategic vision and tactical ability to grow market share and develop new market opportunities. Effectively driving disease management programs to expand available market.• Enthusiastic leadership style and effective interpersonal interaction applied to encourage initiative and involvement of people; reputation for enforcement of individual accountability and building and retaining highly motivated sales and support teams and distribution networks.• Demonstrated success in managing all aspects of commercialization of highly complex products and solution sales across EMEA with marked sensitivity to cultural diversity and focus on customer satisfaction.• Extensive expertise in a variety of technical and clinical fields, including cancer diagnostics, public health screening, infectious disease, POCT in critical care settings, women’s health, nephrology and laboratory automation. • Highly energetic and accustomed to working towards challenging financial performance indicators and under high pressure.• International mobility, prepared to travel extensively, fluency in English and German.