Summary of Experience Profile home

1)

1976

Graduation as Mechanical Engineer
Process Engineering at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zürich

2)

1976 - 1980

Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich
Focus on scientific career
  • R & D work in Thermo & Fluid – dynamics
  • Various scientific publications, consultancy work for the industry, PH.D.

3)

1981 - 1984

Projectengineer in an Engineering division of a large manufacturing group (CH):
Indepth experience as Design and Project Engineer, focus on ore benification processes and numerical calculations in fluid & thermodynamics.

4)

1984 - 1988

Manager of Sales, Projectmanager in a midsized company for Engineering & Contracting (CH, NL):
challenging change to oil industry and offshore technology successful experience in Sales and Project Management of technical, commercial and cultural complex projects (France, UK, USA, North Africa, Japan, China)
Typ. Project profile 1 year, 20 Mio USD

5)

1988 - 1992

Head of Corporate Engineering in a large pharmaceutical group:
Change from Senior Project Management focus to Senior Line (functional) Management tasks.
As Executive Vice President, reorganisation of Corporate Engineering, responsible of technical clearing and execution of an annual investment budget of over 500 Mio CHF; functional budget volume of department approx. 20 Mio CHF.

6)

1992 - 2000

Deputy General Manager, CEO of a midsized group, active in electrotechnical engineering, electrical components and special machines (CH):
Taking over full entrepreneurial leadership and responsibility in a family owned group of small companies (consolidated annual turnover 50 Mio CHF), managerial experience in Business Administration,
Manufacturing and related functions.
Experience in merging and restructuring of 2 family owned groups to a new entity of 100 Mio CHF turnover, with subsidiaries in USA, F, D, Taiwan, Singapore

7)

2000 - 2003

President of a Division in an leading group for passive components (D):
Senior Management experience in a large group. Transfer of production from high labour cost countries (D, F) to low labour cost countries (CZ, India, PRC)
Restructuring in Germany and France.
Turnover approx. 120 Mio Euro.

Key creditable performance:

1. Tenacity to fix nasty scientific engineering problems
2. (just a good Engineer in a large organisation)
3. Execution of a pioneering deep water anchoring concept with a floating production system in budget at quality and on record time
4. Restructuring and redirection of two major endangered investment projects. Reorganisation of complete Engineering department
5. Fast acceptance and leadership in a totally new environment
6. Same as 5; flawless strategic roadmap, restructuring projects on time and in budget.