OUR STORY
Joining forces to best serve you
'The Visory' was founded in 2022 by a group of C-level executives from international market leaders looking for an Executive Peer Level Network to exchange thoughts, ideas and convictions among thought-leaders, and leverage their years of extensive leadership experience to help brands and leaders champion their industries. We are keen to support you as a top-manager and business leader to cover the entire value chain of your business in a holistic, end-to-end consulting approach across functions, industries and leadership variables.
Klaus Entenmann
Key roles:
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CEO Daimler Financial Services and Mobility AG
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Member Of Board Standard Chartered Bank AG
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Chair Of Board Mercedes-Benz Finance Beijing
For over ten years, Klaus was the Chairman of the Board of Management of Daimler Financial Services AG and Daimler Mobility AG. Under his leadership the company financed every second Mercedes-Benz vehicle sold globally. During his tenure as chairman, Klaus ushered in a new era and transformed the company from a traditional vehicle financing bank to a provider of integrated financial and mobility services. He expanded on the financial services industry's main business with a digital strategy that included a wide range of cutting-edge mobility offerings. Furthermore, Klaus leadership was strongly focused on implementing a distinctive business culture with core values at the heart of his philosophy. Due to his commitment in 2018, the Great Place to Work Institute named Daimler Mobility the best employer in Germany and put it among the top 10 globally.
Advisory focus:
#Leadership, #Strategy, #Digitalisation, #BusinessModelInnovation, #GeneralManagement
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Industries:
#FinServices, #Banking, #Mobility, #EV-Charging
Stephanie Leue
Key roles:
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CPO Doodle
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Director Product & Design Contentful
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Leadership Coach
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As CPO of Doodle, Stephanie leads Doodle's product teams to transform the globally recognized brand into a SaaS business. Her expertise in B2B SaaS and track record in developing successful solutions are pivotal for success in today's competitive and hyper-dynamic markets. Stephanie excels at driving product-led growth and transitioning organizations to adopt a successful growth mindset, culture, and organization. She was leading Contentful's product teams during the upmarket transition and was key to the success of PayPal, building a successful payment solution for the German market. Stephanie's commitment to coaching and mentoring leaders in the tech industry reflects her passion for leadership, and her deep understanding of product strategy, operations, and digitalization, along with her interest in the platform economy, position her as a forward-thinking industry leader.
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Advisory focus:
#B2B SaaS, #PlatformEconomy, #D&I, #leadership, #Product, #DigitalTransformation
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Industries:
#eCommerce #Technology #fFinTech
Steinunn Arnardóttir
Key roles
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VP of Engineering SPREAD
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CTO & co-founder Lottie
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Senior Director Engineering Native Instruments
Steinunn comes with over 15 years of experience in the tech industry in Berlin and Silicon Valley as a leader, hands-on engineer, and researcher. Currently, she is the VP of Engineering at SPREAD, building an Engineering Intelligence Network. Previously, she was the CTO and co-founder of Lottie, a Berlin-based start-up helping kids navigate the digital world. Before founding Lottie, she was a Senior Director of Engineering at Native Instruments, a leading manufacturer of software and complementary hardware for music production and DJing, where she led a team of 80 engineers.
Steinunn acts as a mentor and advisor to early-stage start-ups and young professionals. Holds a B.Sc. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Iceland and an M.A. in Music Science and Technology and an M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering, both from Stanford University.
Advisory focus:
#Engineering #Leadership #Software #Start-up #Hiring #Strategy #Organization #Audio
Industries:
#MusicTech #EdTech #MediaTech #B2B #B2C #SaaS
Matthias Schäfer
Key roles:
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VP Growth Marketing at Roku (USA)
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Director Digital Channel / Online at Apple (US)
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Director Strategy&Ops eBay (Germany & US)
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As the VP of Growth Marketing he currently drives the acceleration of Roku’s device business, making it the leading Streaming platform in the US, Canada and Latin America. Before Roku, Matthias spent 7 years at Apple in various retail leadership roles, expanding Apple’s global DTC foot print - both online and physical retail. Prior to that, he tripled Jawbone’s online business in the Audio and Digital Health category after having spent 9 years at eBay, first laying the product foundation for eBay Germany’s stellar growth and then, after relocating to the US, managing the global product roadmap across 30+ local marketplaces.
Matthias has lived and worked in various European countries, Mexico and the US. He is known for his strategic thought leadership and execution horsepower. He leads with integrity and heart - ‘doing right' by customers, employees and shareholders.
Advisory focus:
#Internationalization, #Marketing, #Comms, #Ops
#GoToMarket, #Product, #Strategy, #Leadership
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Industries:
#eCommerce, #Retail, #Marketplaces, #Media
#CE, #SmartHome, #HealthTech, #Advertising
Olivier Grémillon
Key roles:
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CEO at Vivino
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Vice-President Global Segments at Booking.com
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Managing Director EMEA at Airbnb
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For the past ten years, Olivier has worked in the tech industry, first in travel, then in the wine e-commerce sector. At Airbnb, Olivier launched the service in France in 2012 and led the EMEA region during the high-growth period of the company. In 2017, he joined Booking.com, where he led the hotel chains business as well as the non-hotel business. In 2021, Olivier joined Vivino, the leading wine app, as CEO to leverage the community of 60 million users and monetize the service.
Olivier has also served on numerous boards at public and private companies as well as at non-profit organizations, most recently at Homeserve plc, a FTSE100 company recently taken private.
Advisory focus:
#Strategy, #Marketing, #InternationalExpansion, #Growth
Industries:
#Tech, #Travel, #eCommerce, #Marketplaces
Nina Krüger
Key roles:
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CFO Kleinanzeigen.de
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CFO Recommerce Vertical Adevinta
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Diversity & Inclusion Sponsor
Nina has had a variety of roles within the Finance teams at eBay subsidiaries in Germany and the headquarters in the US. As CFO of eBay Kleinanzeigen, later Kleinanzeigen.de, Nina was part of the management team in its transformational phase. Under Nina's leadership the team became an increasingly important business function, driving innovation and growth within the corporation. She played a key role when eBay sold its classifieds businesses to Adevinta in 2020/2021. During Adevinta’s transformation from local to global teams she became the CFO for one of the three vertical units, the Recommerce vertical.
Besides the leadership of the Finance, Analytics, Strategy and Legal teams she started Kleinanzeigen’s mindfulness program and sponsored local D&I activities.
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Advisory focus:
#Leadership #Agile #Financial Planning #Analytics #Diversity&Inclusion
Industries:
#eCommerce #Marketplaces #Classifieds #Mobility
Dr. phil. Kerstin Liesenfeld
Key Roles:
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MD Excellence in Mind Executive Coaching
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Chair of the Board Andrea-Kuhl Stiftung
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Founder/Chair of Liesenfeld Research Institute
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​Kerstin is a living bridge between science and practical application. As scientist and top executive coach, she is in pursuit of authentic personality development. Kerstin is the founder of the neurofunctional COLOUREM® coaching method, which she has been using for years to support top executives and next generation leaders on their development path on various issues relating to transformational change, healthy potential development, and leadership excellence.
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The Doctoral Harvard Scholar, personality psychologist (PhD) and economist (Master), trained Master Executive Coach, NLP-Master, Eden Energy Medicine Certified Practitioner, certified in Psychomotoric Trainer and licenced EOS Personality Diagnostics Trainer also teaches as an Assistant Professor at Tufts University, USA. Kerstin’s professional expertise includes her many years of work in the fashion industry, being the CEO of two private clinics for prevention and rehabilitation and her work as Chair of the Board of the Andrea-Kuhl Stiftung. She is an investor in HealthTech, Virtual Reality and AI-Deep Learning Start-ups, supporting cutting edge ideas to promote inspirational, sustainable learning.
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Advisory focus:
#Leadership, #ExecutiveCoaching, #NLP
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Industries:
#HealthTech, #AI, #MachineLearning, #VR, #Fashion
Marcell Vollmer
Key roles:
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CEO MV Procu / CEO Prospitalia Group
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Chief Innovation Officer Celonis
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CDO SAP Cloud Business & COO SAP Ariba
Marcell is a known speaker at conferences and an active social media influencer with more than 135k followers on LinkedIn and close to 100k on Twitter. Before launching his own VC fund (MV Procu GmbH), Marcell acted as CEO at Prospitalia Group, a Private Equity owned group of businesses that provides a procurement marketplace and partners with the healthcare industry. Marcell was a Partner & Director at BCG and the Chief Innovation Officer at Celonis, the world’s leading process mining software company, where he supported customers and partners in developing and executing digital transformation initiatives. Marcell brings more than 15 years of successful digital transformation and procurement optimization experience gained at SAP in various roles as Chief Digital Officer, Chief Operating Officer, Chief Procurement Officer, and Senior Vice President at SAP. He has also managed various strategy and implementation projects at PA Consulting Group and DHL Express.
Advisory focus:
#AI, #Sustainability, #ProcessMining, #Procurement, #RPA, #Automation, #SupplyChain, #Digitalization
Industries:
#Tech, #Software, #HealthTech, #Healthcare, #B2B, #Marketplaces, #VentureCapital
Daniela Muendler
Key Roles:
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Member of the Management Board Bahlsen
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CEO Lottowelt AG
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GM LVMH & Douglas
Daniela is driven by the desire to make a difference in people’s everyday lives. She held several CEO and board positions in market-leading consumer goods and retail companies (e.g., LVMH, Douglas, and Bahlsen). She is the founder and CEO of Samplistick, a consumer-driven impact start-up to enable responsible consumption in the beauty industry. Daniela creates value by building better business models and successfully leading organi-zations through different stages of development (foundation, growth, transformation, and crisis).
She is a Member of the Board of the female top business network Generation CEO e. V. and acts as a senior advisor, mentor, and keynote speaker. Her engagement has been recognized by
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Strive Magazine: "Top 10 Female Business Influencers"
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Capital & Welt: "Top 40 Under 40"
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Edition F & Handelsblatt: "25 women for DAX CEO in 2025"
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Advisory focus:
#Transformation, #Leadership, #Impact, #Positioning, #Sustainability, #Diversity, #Branding,#FamilyBusiness
Industries:
#ConsumerGoods, #Retail, #Beauty, #Food, #Lifestyle, #Luxury, #StartUps
Tim Heldmann
Key roles:
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CMO Polestar
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CMO Clas Ohlson
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Global Brand Managment Red Bull
As the former CMO for Clas Ohlson, Tim spearheaded the commercial division, overseeing brand experience, marketing, media, retail experience, sales, pricing, loyalty, CRM, and product experience. Before his tenure at Clas Ohlson, he served as the CMO for Polestar, where he successfully established the global brand, marketing, and retail organization, implementing a customer-focused approach for the launch of a new electric car brand. His role at Polestar involved leading substantial commercial transformation projects, encompassing digital transformation, marketing transformation, agency landscape transformation, and people transformation across various markets.
Tim is particularly adept at developing consumer-centric and data-informed marketing and sales programs. Known for his creative thinking, being a strategist by necessity, and pragmatist by choice, Tim is deeply passionate about driving sustainable growth and simplifying complexity
to achieve a unified vision.
Advisory focus:
#Leadership, #Strategy, #Growth, #BrandBuilding, #Marketing, #DataDrivenMarketing, #Comms, #PR
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Industries:
#Retail, #Automotive, #Mobility, #FMCG, #CPG, #Beauty, #OmniChannel
Robert Hansen
Key roles:
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Deputy CTO at Tenable
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Chief Info Sec Officer at Human Health Org
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CEO&Founder SecTheory/Falling Rock Networks
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Robert has been a technology executive and digital security expert for businesses across the globe for nearly three decades. He has led security and product strategy for companies like Human Health Organization, WhiteHat Security, SecTheory/Falling Rock Networks, Realtor.com, and eBay Inc. Most recently, Robert sold his corp. intelligence and asset management to Tenable. As a penetration tester, Robert found vulnerabilities in the back-ends of 2,100 banks, flight control systems, water and power industrial control systems, the Pentagon, and much more. Robert is a serial entrepreneur and an advisor to many companies. He is a member of several professional organizations and advisory boards, including TechStars Cloud, Capital Factory, Arkose Labs, data.world, and American Binary. Moreover, Robert is a sought-after speaker, delivering keynote speeches at numerous conferences worldwide, including at the White House.
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Advisory focus:
#AI, #Privacy, #Security, #Trust&Safety
Industries:
#eCommerce, #Banking, #Technology, #Travel #UtilityProviders, #Government
Pamela Hsieh
Key roles: ​
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Global Head of Online Alibaba.com
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EMEA Head of Marketing & BizOps Alipay
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Angel Investor & Board Advisor
With over 17 years of experience in the technology and fintech industry, Pamela is a dynamic leader specializing in go-to-market and digital growth strategies. Her expertise lies in bringing new brands to the market and scaling them up for success. As Global Head of Online and EMEA Online Marketing Manager Pamela led Alibaba’s global Online Marketing team to ideate and implement brand campaigns cross the key markets including US, UK, Australia and Brazil. As EMEA Head of Marketing and Business Operations and as part of the founding team, appointed by one of the Alibaba Group founders, Pamela helped launch Alipay in Europe. She defined and signed off the expansion strategy in priorities, metrics, roadmaps, budget, hiring plan and OKRs for the EMEA team. Pamela as an Investor, Mentor and Advisor dedicates a lot of her time on empowering entrepreneurs, start-ups and charities, with a focus on founders from underrepresented backgrounds. Moreover she manages personal investments in the equity market, properties, angel investment and art, with annual returns consistently outperforming the market.
Advisory focus:
#Gotomarket, #Management, #InternationalMarkets, #DigitalGrowth, #GeoExpansion, #Strategy, #BizOps
Industries:
#eCommerce, #SaaS, #FinTech, #Marketplace
Axel Fischer
Key roles:
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VP Samsung Semiconductor Europe
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GM Samsung Foundry & SLSI EMEA
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Member of the Board OSPT Alliance
As Vice President of Samsung Semiconductor Europe and part of the leadership team, he started new business groups from scratch and led those to become business units with major market share and revenue. In particular, the Foundry and SLSI divisions have experienced strong growth under his leadership, focusing on automotive, industrial, and consumer markets. His experience spans product creation, industrialization, marketing, sales, technical support, project management, operations, and quality assurance. He has broad experience, working with start-ups, medium and large enterprises, and channels. He served as board member, covering strategy, financial planning, and business development. Regular conference speaker. Prior to Samsung, he held management roles at Texas Instruments France and at Cypress Semiconductor relevant to marketing and sales.
Advisory focus:
#Leadership, #Strategy, #Ops, #AI, #Digitalization, #GeneralManagement, #Product, #SupplyChain
Industries: #Semiconductor, #Automotive, #Mobility, #Industrial, #IoT, #Telecom
Peter Grosskopf
Key Roles:
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Co-Founder at Unstoppable Finance / Ultimate
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CTO / MD at Börse Stuttgart Digital Exchange
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CTO / Co-Founder at Solaris SE
Peter is the Co-Founder and CTO at Unstoppable Finance, a Berlin-based company with the mission to empower people around the world to access, interact with, and unlock the financial opportunities of the decentralized economy by building Ultimate.app. Before that, he was CTO and MD at Börse Stuttgart Digital Exchange, the first regulated digital asset exchange in Germany. Before that, he was CTO and co-founder at Solaris Bank. Peter has a technology and entrepreneurial background. In 2008, he founded a software engineering consultancy with a focus on digitization projects and grew it to profitability with 30 employees. In 2014, he came to Berlin to become the CTO of company builder Hitfoxgroup and Finleap, which focuses on fintech. Blockchain and decentralization fascinated him from the moment he got in touch at the end of 2016. Since then, he has shaped the vision to bring decentralized finance to reality.
Advisory focus:
#CTO, #FinTech, #DeFi, #Blockchain, #Digitalisation, #Coaching, #Web3
Industries:
#FinTech, #Banking, #Blockchain, #Web3
Dennis Winter
Key roles:
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CTO at Solaris SE
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VP Technical Operations at Solaris SE
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Certified Business Coach
Dennis is a seasoned technology leader with a strong background in fintech, software-, and systems engineering. Currently serving as the CTO of Solaris SE, Dennis guides the company through complex regulatory landscapes and promotes technology as a key driver of sustainable investments. Prior to this role, he held several expert and leadership positions, including VP of Technical Operations, where he led a major transition of the company's entire tech infrastructure to AWS.
Dennis, being an Engineer by trait and heart, has a knack for explaining complex tech and product department workings to various audiences, including auditors, investors, and potential strategic partners.
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Advisory focus:
#CTO, #Leadership, #Strategy, #PlatformEconomy, #SoftwareEngineering, #Digitalisation, #Coaching
Industries:
#FinTech, #Banking, #B2C, #B2B, #Cloud
Simon-Curt Harlinghausen
Key roles:
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Managing Director Miele X Amsterdam
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CEO akom360 / CTRO Publicis Group
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Advisory Board Member
Since 1994 Simon operates, develops and creates digital impact for organizations all around the globe, like BMW, Mercedes, Miele, Samsung, SAP, Targo Bank, Krombacher, Publicis Group and Meta. Since 2021 he leads and manages the Digital Hub of Miele in Amsterdam and with it the consumer facing divisions around eCommerce, Data, MarTech, Automation and Customer Engagement.
Furthermore, Simon is a serial founder, well known global speaker and moderator, and advisory board member. His deep digital knowledge, his visionary skills and strong execution performance paired with sheer focus, energy and dedication helped to write a broad success story within all his engagements.
Advisory focus:
#Leadership, #Strategy, #Digitalisation, #Simplification, #Restructuring, #Automation
Industries:
#Electronics, #MediaTech, #MarTech, #Mobility, #EV-Charging, #Retail
Christian Gerwens
Key roles:
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SVP Sales & Retail Miele
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General Manager Miele Germany
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Certified Professional Coach (iPEC)
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Christian has a strong track record and experience in leadership and strategic business development. Christian has worked for more than 30 years in different leadership positions within the Miele company. In his current role as Senior Vice President Sales and Retail International, he is responsible for the International Sales Strategy, International Key Accounting, Export, Latin America, Own Retail, Business Architecture, and Training. He currently also serves as the General Manager of Miele Germany. During his previous regional role, he looked after the Americas, Australia, and South Africa. During this time, he founded the latest Miele subsidiary in Brazil. Christian is highly experienced with transformation, exit strategies, and setting up and managing high-performing sales organizations. Christian also acts as a Certified Professional Coach (iPEC - ICF accredited) where his strengths of business acumen and leadership converge.
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Advisory focus:
#Leadership, #Strategy, #Ops, #Coaching, #Sales #KeyAccounting, #GeoExpansion, #BizArchitecture
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Industries:
#ConsumerProducts, #Retail, #HomeAppliances #IndustrialAppliances, #B2C, #B2B, #OmniChannel
Dr. Matthias Leonardy
Key roles:
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CEO INTERIM.legal
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Chief Legal & Compliance Officer ebay Germany
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MD & General Counsel HDF Kino
As Chief Legal & Compliance Officer of ebay Germany, Matthias guided ebay through the most significant time of industry disruption and growth. In this role, he acted both as General Counsel and as Business Ethics Officer. Later in his career, he was the CEO of GVU, Germany’s No. 1 content protection company, and also co-led Germany’s No. 1 association for movie theaters as MD of HDF KINO. As Founder and CEO of INTERIM.legal he supported the legal operations of blue chip tech companies like BOSCH, CEVT, and Optimizely. In this role, he has also set up, restructured, and led legal and compliance departments, and risk management systems for clients such as Share Now, IGEL Technology, OMIO, Vitesco Technologies, and FALKE.
Advisory focus:
#Legal, #Compliance, #Organizational Excellence
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Industries:
#Automotive, #Mobility, #eCommerce, #IT, #Tech, #Media, #Commerce
Dr. Martin Schössler
Key roles:
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CEO Causa
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EIC Business Coach European Union
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Member of the Board World Frontiers Forum
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Focusing on strategy and positioning, Martin has advised leaders in challenging business and public sector environments for many years. As founder and CEO of CAUSA, he leads a boutique consultancy that helps leaders across Europe make an impact at the intersection of the private and public sectors, with a focus on innovation, high tech, and industry transformation. Previously, he was Head of Public Sector Advisory, Europe, at Frost & Sullivan and Senior Manager at The Economist, part of the Economist Intelligence Unit. He is a board member of the World Frontiers Forum, Boston, a jury member of “Jugend forscht” and a frequent speaker and publisher on public-private collaboration, urban transformation, and the changing nature of value creation in leading economies.
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Advisory focus:
#IndustrialCompetitiveness, #FutureUrbanity, #PR, #IndustryTransformation, #LeadershipPositioning
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Industries:
#PublicSector, #Services, #Industry4.0
Georg Steinberger
Key roles:
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President IDEA & Chairman of the Board FBDi
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VP Marketing Avnet
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Chief Editor of Markt &Technik
Georg is a life-long admirer of microelectronics and the electronics world at large. As Vice-President Marketing for 23 years, he has supported Avnet’s expansion across Europe and evangelized tech distribution, supply chain and market analytics. Before Avnet, he was one of the leading tech editors in Europe and Chief Editor of Markt &Technik and Electronic Sources. With 35 years of experience in nearly all angles of the electronics industry, Georg has been the voice for distribution in Europe since the late 90s and chaired a variety of industry associations. He is still President of the International Distribution Association (IDEA) and Chairman of the Board of the German Distribution Association FBDi). Currently, he is an industry consultant on Supply Chain Digitalization in the electronics industry.
Advisory focus:
#Electronics, #Semiconductors, #Distribution, #ESG, #SupplyChain,#Market Intelligence, #eCommerce
Industries:
#Industrial, #Automotive, #Manufacturing, #ElectronicComponents
Ingmar Krusch
Key roles:
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CIO Solaris SE
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Head of Technology ImmobilienScout24
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AI / ML Adoption Solaris Group Level
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Ingmar is a seasoned tech executive with a knack for transforming departments into fast-paced engineering units. As CIO for Solaris SE, he is responsible for leading and expanding the entire Solaris tech organization on a group level, driving the post-merger product platform integration, and leading the AI and ML adoption. Before Solaris, he led the AWS migration of the Scout 24 Group and, before that, the agile transformation of the Immobilien Scout 24 subsidiary. He has a profound engineering background in the Java/Linux ecosystem having worked as a full-stack developer and architect for many years.
Advisory focus:
#Leadership, #Strategy, #AI, #ML, #Cultural-Shift
#Agile, #Lean, #Engineering #GeneralManagement
Industries:
#eCommerce, #FinTech, #Banking #SoftwareDevelopment
Jan-Patrick Willmes
Key roles:
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SCM Leader Swiss Railways
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CPO Swiss Post
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ISC Leader (COO) Honeywell Life Safety EMEAI
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A positive, responsible & confident personality with a fine sense of humor and global mindset. Grown up in entrepreneurial family businesses in Cologne, Germany. Great experience as breakthrough & strategic thinker who loves working on challenges. Resilient, persistent, focused on targets and get results. Self-aware learner with leadership impact, customer and growth focussed, fostering teamwork and diversity. Change & Transformational Digitization experience in large scale project. A senior Executive for innovative supply base management building & sustaining high performance organizations. Achieving results by collaborative procurement value
creation. Driven and passionate buy-side entrepreneur. Leadership actively driving global teams directly and influencing x-functionally.
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Advisory Focus:
#Sustainabiity #SupplyChainManagement #Digitalization #Transformation #Change #Leadership
Industries:
#Manufacturing #Transportation #Logistics
Göran Göhring
Key roles:
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Founder & CEO STAGG & FRIENDS
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Member of Advisory Board ,Next Mobility Labs’
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Co-Autor and investor in +20 start-ups
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As CEO of STAGG & FRIENDS, Göran managed global communication projects for more than 50% of all DAX companies. Since 2020, he has transformed STAGG & FRIENDS into a remote-first company structured in Bricks, Bytes, Behavior in order to build a pan-European business organization without branches. In parallel, he has participated in more than 20 start-ups and actively coached their founders in many ways in building their business models successfully. On the advisory board of the venture studio Next Mobility Labs, he is actively involved in the development of up to 15 start-ups with a focus on sustainable mobility. As an author, Göran deals with the digital transformation of medium-sized companies. He coaches young founders as a mentor at STARTUP TEENS and High Tech NRW.
Advisory focus:
#Leadership, #BusinessModel, #NewWork, #DigitalTransformation, #VentureBuilding
Industries:
#Communications, #Automotive, #Mobility, #B2B, #Mittelstand, #entrepreneurship, #Startups
Lothar Hoss
Key roles:
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CHRO DHL Worldwide Express
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CHRO Busche Mediengruppe
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Various C-Level functions in interim mandates
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For more than 18 years, Lothar has been advising numerous companies as an expert in transformation, restructuring, strategic realignment, growth, the set-up of new sites, carve-outs, and post-merger integration with a focus on people & culture, organizational development, and communication. His spectrum ranges from owner-managed medium-sized companies and PE investments to corporate groups with a company size ranging from 100 employees up to almost 10,000 employees. Prior to his work as an advisor, Lothar was CHRO of DHL Worldwide Express in Germany and CHRO of Busche Mediengruppe, among other responsible key roles. His clients appreciate his strategic and, at the same time, pragmatic approach. His creativity in developing solutions and his ability to balance the constraints of all partners involved and to develop opportunities from them have led to quick agreements being reached even in conflictual situations. In addition, he has extensive experience in change communication, which he uses to great effect.
Advisory focus:
#OrgDevelopment, #People&Culture, #Leadership, #StrategicRealignment, #WorkforceTransformation
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Industries:
#Automotive, #Industry, #Manufacturing, #Logistics, #Media, #Chemical, #Energy
Janes Witcher
Key Roles:
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Chief Architect Legal & General America
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CTO Microsoft Federal Manufacturing
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Principal Strategist Microsoft Federal
Janes is an experienced technology executive with over 20 years of leadership in the tech industry. Currently serving as Chief Architect for Legal & General America, Mr. Witcher is responsible for overseeing transformation and modernization strategies for an $8 billion book of assets.
A military veteran with a commendable service record, his career includes key roles at Microsoft Corp and the founding of SanfordJanes Inc., a firm focused on startup advisory and offshore development services.
As the former Chief Technology Officer within Microsoft's Federal Division, Janes played a crucial role in establishing the company's first Federal Defense Manufacturing Subsidiary.
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Advisory Focus:
#Strategy #Leadership #DigitalTransformation #WorkforceTransformation #TechnicalSales
Industries:
#Government #Manufacturing #Entertainment #Startups #Technology #FinTech
Pascal Maygnan
Key Roles:
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International CFO at Oracle Cerner
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Financial Controller at Johnson & Johnson
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Certified Executive coach | Team Coach
Pascal is a seasoned CFO with over 25 years of global experience at esteemed companies such as Spie-Batignolles, Hewlett-Packard, Johnson & Johnson, and Oracle Cerner. He has successfully led multicultural teams of up to 70 people, partnering with businesses to implement profitable growth strategies. Notably, as the international CFO at Oracle Cerner, Pascal achieved remarkable results, increasing contribution margins from 20% to 40% on a 15% annually growing revenue within 5 years.
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Passionate about authentic leadership, Pascal serves as an executive and team coach, guiding leaders and teams in recognizing strengths, addressing limiting beliefs, and enhancing communication, empathy, and collaboration.
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Advisory Focus:
#Finance, #Leadership, #Coaching, #ChangeManagement, #GeoExpansion
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Industries:
#Healthcare, #HealthTech, #Software
Martin Brandenburg
Key roles:
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Chief Dev Officer & MD EMEA at DJI
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VP Intl. BD at Skydio
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Member of the Board Jedsy.com
After serving in various European and global management positions in the IT industry at Fujitsu, Siemens and DELL, Martin established and built the EMEA organization for DJI, the world’s leading drone manufacturer. Under his leadership as Managing Director EMEA became the largest region for DJI before he moved to the global position of Chief Development Officer for DJI’s automotive business unit. In 2020 he setup his one consultancy firm with the focus on helping companies scale in Europe and has since successfully founded the European entities for Skydio and Boston Dynamics and provided consultancy services to class leading organizations such as Wingtra, Twinsity and Karriere Tutor. Martin sits on the Board Advisors at Jedsy.com and continues to support various Tech start-ups such as Skysafe.io as a mentor, advisor and investor.
Advisory focus:
#Gotomarket, #Strategy, #Management, #Leadership, #BusinessAlliances, #Mentoring, #GeoExpansion
Industries:
#Tech, #Drones, #Saas, #Robotics, #IT, #automotive
Alexander Schwarz
Key roles:
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CEO NIO Europe
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GM Airbnb DACH / Head of Strategy PayPal
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Member of Advisory Board AI Business School
As CEO of Europe at NIO, he was responsible for NIO's Europe expansion, bringing both premium-quality, top-notch eMobility and innovative power infrastructure projects to Europe. Before NIO, he acted as CEO for Airbnb DACH. He was key to Airbnb's strategic expansion within one of the Top3 most important regions worldwide. He headed the Airbnb Office in Berlin, which was in charge of the largest geography in Airbnb, from the French to the Chinese border. He has held several executive positions at PayPal, helping the global FinTech corporation become the dominant player in the market. He sits on the Board of Advisors at the AI Business School and acts as a start-up investor and mentor.
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Advisory focus:
#Leadership, #Strategy, #Ops, #AI, #Digitalisation, #GeneralManagement, #PlatformEconomy, #Web3
Industries:
#eCommerce, #Automotive, #Mobility, #Hospitality, #Marketplaces, #B2B, #EV-Charging
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