Our members

Our independent members offer their services as interim managers in almost all disciplines of the value chain. Each has extensive experience in his or her area of expertise. They support each other and enable everyone to benefit as needed from their own experience within the scope of their mandates. When required, companies can also draw on a pool of members for multidisciplinary challenges.

Hartmut Albers

Functions:
CEO, COO, CSO, Supply Chain Manager, Project Manager

Industries:
Transport, logistics, financial services, energy, network operators

Expertise:

Development, restructuring, turnaround, internationalization, process optimization, customer journey

Motto:
Clear objectives create transparency and commitment


Mohammed Assef

Functions:
Project Management, Ramp-up Management, R&D, Manufacturing

Industries:
Automotive/supplier industry, machine construction

Expertise:

Operational management & strategic consulting for new ramp-ups, taskforce / program management, business process optimization / transformation, PDP, SCM, QM, lean manufacturing

Motto: 
Vision by leadership - Identifying potentials and achieving them together

Roland Bachmeier 

Functions:

Supply Chain Management, Project Management, COO

Industries:

Automotive, supply industry, air- and defense industry

Expertise:

Strategic & operational management SCM (Logistics & Purchasing), process optimization supply chain and productional environment, taskforce, operational Management C-level, supplier management, global transportation management

Motto:
The world would stand still without Supply Chain!

Lutz Beutgen

Functions:
Operations Management (Engineering, Production & Supply Chain Management)

Industries:

Automotive / supplier industry, metal and plastics processing

Expertise:

Process optimization, cost reduction, delivery bottlenecks, production ramp-ups as well as site planning, relocation and closure

Motto:
"Nothing is as constant as change" (Heraclitus)

Jörn Borckenhagen

Functions:
Director Logistics/SCM, Plant Logistics Manager, Project Manager, Plant Manager

Industries:

Automotive / supplier industry, Engineering Systems Construction, Manufacturing Industry (serial, single-item), Armaments Industry

Expertise:

Supply Shortfall Management, Launch Management & Pre-serial Logistics, Supplier Management, Senior Level Logistics Management, Logistics Planning & Costing, Tender Management

Motto:
“Where others must run, I walk!”

Roland L. Emig

Functions:
CRO, CFO, CEO, PMO

Industries:

Automotive / supplier industry, machine construction, plant construction

Expertise:

Turnaround & restructuring, linking performance management and financial management, organizational adjustment, process optimization

Motto:
In calm weather, anyone can easily be a steersman - in wild water, it's more fun.

Dr. Axel Härtl

Functions:
Interim Management, Restructuring, Coaching

Industries:

Process Industry, Mechanical and Plant Engineering

Expertise:

Process Analysis and Optimization, Lean Management, Operational Excellence, Six Sigma Methods, Design of Experiments, Strategy Development, Change Management, Implementation of Measures, Restructuring

Motto:
Increased value creation and profit in manufacturing SME´s

Christian Jung

Functions:
CEO, CRO, CSO, COO, Advisory Board Member

Industries:

Mechanical & Plant Engineering, Automation, Machine Tools, Medical Technology, Automotive Supplier Industry

Expertise:

C-Level Management, Transformation, Restructuring, Turnaround, B2B-Sales, Business Development, Process & Business optimization

Motto:
Driving & implementing successful change

Frank Keussen

Functions:
Quality management, robust design, manufacturing processes, supplier development

Industries:

Automotive industry, electronics and semiconductor industry, energy sector

Expertise:

Quality management, supplier development, robust design, electronics and their manufacturing processes

Motto:
Invest in robust design, save on costs, gain in quality

André Krings

Functions:
 Plant Manager/ COO / Turanround / Relocation / PMI / Carve Out 

Industries:

Manufacturing Industry, Construction Equipment Industry, OEM, Machinery & Plant Industry

Expertise:

Plant Manager / COO / Turanround / Relocation / PMI / Carve Out 

Devise:
„Let‘s rock it“ | We talk Production

Jörg Löchner

Functions:
Finance Leadership and Project Management, Management Board

Industries:
Automotive, biotech, E-commerce, renewable energies

Expertise:

Supporting companies in change situations (M&A Transactions, PMI, IPO, Restructuring), setting up and developing financial organizations, modeling business processes as well as digitalization and IT integration

Motto:
Deliver

Dr. Bastian Marheineke

Functions:
Sales Management, Transformation, Turnaround

Industries:
Automotive / supplier industry, semiconductors, machine construction

Expertise:

Development / repositioning of companies and sales organizations, international expansion, process optimization and digitization, interdisciplinary and intercultural management

Motto:
We are all Sales!

Thomas Meyer-Dethlefs

Functions:
CEO, COO, Managing Director, Plant and Operations Director, Advisory Board Member

Industries:

Electrical Engineering and Switchgear Manufacturing, Mechanical & Plant Engineering, Metal Processing, Chemical & Process Industry, Steel & Non-Ferrous Metals, SME and Family-Owned Businesses

Expertise:

Operational Management, Turnaround & Restructuring, Industrial Regeneration and Retrofit Programs, M&A (Due Diligence, Post-Merger Integration), Lean Six Sigma and Operational Excellence, Change Management, OT Security

Motto:
Understand before you change – leadership means taking responsibility

Roger Schmidt

Functions:
CEO, CRO, COO, CSO, Management Board, Project Manager PMO & Transformation

Industries:

Machine construction, plant construction, automotive / supplier industry, automation technology, packaging technology, printing and coating technology

Expertise:

Turnaround & restructuring, business development, internationalisation, process optimisation, digitalisation and project manager transformation

Motto:
If you change nothing, nothing changes!

Gert Spruner von Mertz

Functions:
CEO, CRO, COO, Technical Management, Program or Plant Management 

Industries:
Automotive / supplier industry, machine construction, metal processing 

Expertise:

Specialist for manufacturing companies in change situations - operational management and performance restructuring or process optimization, organizational development and agility

Motto:
performance.people.change – I make employees stakeholders

Olcay Süzeroglu 

Functions:
Project management and consulting in the process industry

Industries:

E-mobility, automotive/supplier industry, mechanical and systems engineering

Expertise:

Optimization of production processes, tool and production relocation, restructuring, product cost optimization, bottleneck management taskforce, start-up management and shop floor management

Motto:
Search and master your next challenge

Jörg Tylinda

Functions:
Supply Chain Management, Customer Service, Sales & Operations Planning

Industries:
Automotive / supplier industry, sanitary industry

Expertise:

Management of SCM positions in different levels, optimization of processes in the areas of customer service, production control and material disposition

Motto:
I come to leave


Alexander Venn

Functions:
Purchasing, Logistics and Materials Management

Industries:
Plant & machine construction, metal processing, manufacturing, services

Expertise:

Management, organizational development, strategy development and implementation, process optimization, project management, restructuring, post-merger integration

Motto:
„Well done is better than well said“ (Benjamin Franklin)