Professional Career

06/2006-12/2008 Senior Manager product development
Daimler AG, Germany and USA

Number of member responsibility: 80
Leadership of 3 product development teams in Germany and USA for new axle differential generation.
Member of 3 head project commitee for US$ 700 mil. project after strategy development.
Leadership of all Mercedes-Benz passenger car activities.
01/2005-05/2006 Senior manager power train & chassis
DaimlerChrysler AG, Germany and overseas

Number of member responsibility: 10
Leader launch power train & chassis new allwheel drive generation 4matic in S-class.
Leader industrialisation power train & chassis new C-class South Africa and Brazil (budget € 11 mil.).
Leader of big interdisciplinary project groups in Europe and overseas.
2003-2005 Senior Manager power train & chassis SUV
DaimlerChrysler AG, Germany and Brazil

Number of member responsibility: 10
Leader power train & chassis in vehicle project smart formore (budget € 42 mil.).
Leader plant extension and qualifying to tier1 system supplier in Germany and Brazil.
Leader industrialisation, Local Content and assembly power train & chassis in Brazil
2001-2003 Senior manager industrialisation automatic transmission
DaimlerChrysler AG, Germany and USA

Number of member responsibility: 10
Development master strategy "Worldwide transmission scenario" of restructure corporate transmission portfolio
Project manager Mercedes-Benz for technology transfer and capacity expansion
Corporate project management with Chrysler for greenfield plant "Indiana Transmission Plant 2" (800.000 units/y)
1995-2000 Manager projects overseas
Daimler-Benz AG commercial vehicles, Germany and overseas

Number of member responsibility: 8
Project manager greenfield passenger car assembly plant in Egypt (budget € 24 mil., workforce 240)
Manager product- and productions planning commercial vehicle licensees in Iran and Egypt.
Co-leadership Post merger integration teams for Daimler-Benz with Chrysler
1990-1995 Manager reporting & information systems subsidiaries M&A
Daimler Benz AG corporate holding, Germany and overseas

Number of member responsibility: 5
Team leader reporting- and information systems.
Development of new reporting-, documentation- and evaluation systems.
Creation of integrated business plan for joint venture Mercedes-Benz India with multi-month execution of commercial functions at greenfield site.
1987-1991 Manager business & organisation consulting
Daimler-Benz AG sales & marketing, Germany and Europe

Number of member responsibility: 3
Key account for organisation and IT of Mercedes-Benz France, Belgium, Nederland, North America and Japan.
Leader system- and data center planning for the implementation of new common IT systems in foreign sales subsidiaries.
1983-1987 Assistant vice president corporate communications
Daimler-Benz AG, Germany

Number of member responsibility: 1
Management of the office of the Senior Executive Vice President Corporate Communications.
Elaboration and research for all statements of the corporate spokesman.
concept work for big PR-projects (new CI, 100 years automobile, new sponsoring concept)
1981-1983 Manager Corporate Auditing
Daimler-Benz AG, Germany

Number of member responsibility: 2
Manager Auditing of data centers and bigger information systems in plants, sales subsidiaries and central functions.
1980-1981 Specialist methods finance and controlling
Daimler-Benz AG, Germany

Number of member responsibility: 0
Development of new target costing methods
Elaboration of guidelines for costing and accounting.
Interface to the IT system development.