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Financial and strategic expert

Financial and strategic expert

Work Experience

2004 - present Company name withheld
e-mentoring & consulting services to large & medium corporates (staff 7, 2 countries)
Chairman & COO
• Responsible for sales, business development, operations & finance
• Developed innovative e-mentoring service for high potential managers
• Developed partnerships to create a “full-service” offering
• Raised 2 financing rounds
• Areas of consulting expertise
– KPI & ROI measurement of corporate training programmes
– compensation strategies & implementation
– blended & constant pipeline recruitment
– mentoring/training programme development for managers

2002 - 2004 Company name withheld
Risk management solution provider (staff 135, 4 countries)
COO & CFO (including ad-interim Country Manager Switzerland for 8 months)
• Professionalised a rapidly growing company, positioning it as a serious player by:
– re-energising, repositioning and refocusing the company and its solutions
– recruiting & training new senior management team to drive company forward
– restructuring processes and procedures (excluding software development)
• Responsible for all financial operations incl. funding- and cost savings initiatives
• Negotiated and approved all large (CHF 0.25 – 1.5m p.a) client & supplier contracts
• Grew sales in Swiss country organisation by 40% to CHF 8m
• Responsible for all HR activities including people & strategy alignment, training &
personnel development, recruitment, compensation, HR processes & reporting

2002 Company name withheld
Strategic Management Consultancy (staff 1,700, 25 countries)
Senior Consultant
• Developed a world-wide market entry/penetration strategy for the service division
of a German engineering company

2001 IMD, Lausanne, Switzerland - Full time 12 month MBA Programme

2000 Company name withheld
Former worldwide top 10 strategic consultancy (staff 10,000, worldwide presence)
Manager within Financial Services Division
• Developed the business case, identified products & processes to set up a new Swiss
private bank in Zurich, Switzerland
• Helped implement a valued-based management concept in a leading German
reinsurance company
• Developed an in-house strategic tool for binding insurance agents & brokers to
primary insurers

1997 - 2000 Company name withheld
Insurance Underwriting Agency of the Lloyd’s Market (Capacity £ 50m, 4 countries)
CFO & Director Business Development, following management buy-out
• Core member of management buy-out team with responsibility for finance, cash-
flow, due-diligence & funding
• Developed and implemented a comprehensive turn-around strategy involving
Financial, Business Development & HR disciplines, resulting in a 20% cost reduction,
a 10% increased profit margin and improved working capital management
• Developed and negotiated an e-commerce joint-venture for advising and selling
Lloyd’s personal and small business insurances over the web
• Day-to-day operational responsibility for Germany (sales, underwriting, claims)
• Developed tools to automate queries, quotes, offers and policy documentation
• Developed & implemented HR strategy to weed out poor performers & retain good
performers during difficult turn-around period

1996 - 1997 Company name withheld
Former top Lloyd’s of London Managing agency (staff 2,500, capacity ca. £ 750m)
European Financial Controller and Assistant to Director of Business Development
• Helped develop a new business development programme for European subsidiaries
• Undertook due-diligence work of the European subsidiaries for buy-out team
• Prepared & analysed quarterly reporting of European subsidiaries for the Board
• Improved financial controls & processes, including fiduciary cash management

1992 - 1996 Company name withheld
Big 4 professional services firm (staff 130,000, worldwide presence)
Chartered Accountant – audit and business advisory within Financial Institutions
• Major audit assignments: Legal & General Insurance, Barclays Life Assurance, Close
Brothers, National Bank of Pakistan,
• Major specials: bank in administration, various fraud investigations & due-diligence


Education

2001 IMD, Lausanne (full time MBA)
1992 - 1996 Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (Chartered Accountant)
1991 - 1992 Trier University Business School
1989 - 1991 Imperial College London (B.Sc. Biotechnology)


Skills

Finance and Strategy

Languages

English, German

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