Professional Career

07/1992-08/1998 Senior Credit Consultant, Treasurer
Bayerische Hypotheken- und Wechsel-Bank AG (heute: UniCredit Bank AG), Germany, Munich

Workout/intensive care of credit exposure to selected corporates as Senior Credit Consultant; MBO/LBO-structuring; Transformation of Irish legal entity into capital market participant with inaugural debt placements (bond/commercial paper) and IT implementation (trading/risk) as Treasurer.
09/1998-03/1999 Head of Debt Capital Markets Siemens Financial Services
Siemens AG, Siemens Financial Services, Germany, Munich

Issuance of innovative bonds (e.g. revers convertible bonds) and syndicated loan facilities; rating agency relations.
04/1999-09/2004 Corporate Treasurer and Senior Vice President
Infineon Technologies AG, Germany, Munich

Carve out of dispersed local finance teams to one international team for a successful IPO (FFM/NY), establishing readiness for a centralized treasury/inhouse bank (people, processes, partner) serving subsidiaries globally; co-developed SAP-LP for liquidity management; provided adequate equity-/bond-/bank-/project-funding during years of financial stress; project management for headquarter financing and construction. Board member of various international operating and finance subsidiaries.
10/2004-02/2011 CFO und Senior Vice President Automotive, Industrial & Multimarket
Infineon Technologies AG, Germany, Munich

My focus was on significant improvement of profitability, working capital and cashflow in seven business units of the AIM-division; project lead for M&A, restructuring-/turnaround-/productivity improvement- and cost cutting projects at divisional/business unit level. Board member of various international operating and finance subsidiaries.
11/2008-02/2011 Head of Strategic Controlling and Senior Vice President
MAN SE, Germany, Munich

I focused on value based management and the establishment of a centralized high performance controlling and risk management team; program manager for process improvement-/cost reduction- and working capital-reduction projects in headquarter and divisions including revision of target setting process; established controlling framework for project/serial business; successfully implemented an integrated risk management system aligned with COSO (compliance/internal controls/audit/controlling); co-lead post merger integration of acquired Brazilian truck business; co-steered outsourcing of group IT-Systems (desktop/infrastructure).
03/2011-12/2012 CFO and Member of the Board of Directors
3W Power S.A./ AEG Power Solutions B.V., Luxembourg, Zwanenburg

Focus on turnaround management, restructuring of businesses, development/ improvement of corporate functions corporate finance, controlling, accounting, treasury, investor relations, legal and IT (SAP process harmonization and upgrade groupwide) of a listed company (FFM/Euronext) in preparation for a take private transaction/sale to an investor.
02/2013 Executive Partner
HFM Henschel Finance Management GmbH, Germany, Munich

Finance executive for strategic taskforce- and project-management including ad interim management of functions as change manager.