Professional Career
01/2013 | Owner and founder Mertens Interim Management, Europe thomasmertens.com Creative developement and implementation of growth and go-to-market strategies. Leadership development and business coaching. |
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06/2011-12/2012 | Sales Director - OEM NVIDIA GmbH, Europe Number of member responsibility: 43 Responsible for a group of top global OEM accounts for European markets. Market introductions and sell-out growth of products based on NVIDIA Technology: Notebooks, tablets, smart phones, PC and all-in-one PC |
08/2006-06/2011 | Director of Sales Central Europe NVIDIA GmbH, Central Europe (Germany, Austria,Switzerland and Eastern Europe) Number of member responsibility: 12 Responsible for the Central Europe Sales and Marketing Team covering Germany, Austria, Switzerland, and Eastern Europe. Built and lead the geographically spread Sales and Marketing Team for the channel: 12 direct reports including contractors |
05/2003-08/2008 | Head of Sales Eastern Europe NVIDIA GmbH, Russia, Ukraine, CIS, Eastern Euope Number of member responsibility: 5 Complete market development and entrance in the target Region. achieving market leadership by - First customer acquisitions for Asian partners - Installation of a marketing and sales team in Moscow, 5 heads - Installation of 3 contractors for Poland, Czech Rep., Bulgaria |
06/2000-05/2003 | Sales Manager D, A, CH NVIDIA corp. (USA), Germany Number of member responsibility: 3 Foundation of NVIDIA GmbH as the first employee in Germany Acquisition of leading PC manufacturers ,distributors and retailers. Brand building for NVIDIA and Geforce from a pure components maker in the background to the favourite end-customer brand Development of the indirect sales partner process |
11/1992-06/2000 | International Sales Manager ELSA GmbH, ELSA AG, Europe Successfull development of the foreign business of a purely Germany focussed company. building all customer relations including global OEM design-wins with Hewlett-Packard, France. Negotiating GPA and HUB contracts. |
07/1992-10/1992 | Project Engineer, Project Manager KKS GmbH, Germany Leading the development of a data requisition and calculation computer for Opel (GM). Successfull project presentations at Opel and acquisition of new projects |
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