More about the interim manager
The Interim Manager is a highly experienced international business executive, entrepreneur, consultant and teacher. He specializes in general management, M&A, marketing, sales, strategic procurement and large-scale project management.
The interim manager is intrinsically motivated. He has over 30 years of professional experience in a wide range of industries, functions and cultures. He is curious, has a wide range of interests and is always interested in new challenges. He is not interested in the greatest financial gain, but in professional satisfaction. He wants to have fun at work, to do new or better things - as a lone fighter, but preferably with a team of fellow campaigners. That's why he has been working as an interim manager and entrepreneur for 20 years. Because this is about creating something new and changing the old - as opposed to preventing or hindering. He is currently focusing on disruption, artificial intelligence and blockchain.
The interim manager was born in Germany and grew up in Central and South America (Colombia, Nicaragua and Argentina). He was professionally trained in Germany and North America and has subsequently worked for extended periods in all continents (except Australia). He is a native speaker of German, Spanish and English and has also worked in a French, Russian, Arabic and Chinese environment for several years.
He sees his core competencies in the following fields of activity:
- Building, expanding and turning around (technologically) sophisticated organizations
- Hiring, integrating and managing employees
- Presenting, selling and communicating (complex) products, Processes and systems
- Multicultural thinking and acting
In the past, the interim manager worked as a managing consultant at CresapTelesis, a strategy consultancy of TowersWatson (Frankfurt, New York) for top management consulting in strategy and organizational effectiveness for industrial companies and public administration in Europe and South America. His clients there included Lufthansa AG, Swiss, Exxon-Intercor Colombia, Triumph Motorcycles UK, Deutsche Treuhandanstalt and many others. Later, as Manager Strategic Planning, he was responsible for the portfolio and M&A activities of WorldCard International, a holding company of the Quandt Group (Bad Homburg) with company acquisitions, sales and mergers in Central and South America (in particular Mexico, Argentina, Chile), Europe, India and Japan. He then worked as Director General for DataCard Corporation (Minneapolis) for the development and expansion of DataCard Ibérica S. L. (Madrid-Lisbon) and finally as a board member for the development of FidelioNetworks S. A. (Madrid) and as Managing Director for the development of Postbank PoSTransact (Schwalbach), a joint venture between Postbank AG and FirstData Corporation.
Today, the interim manager is also involved in research and teaching as well as an entrepreneur. He is a lecturer for entrepreneurship at the University of Applied Sciences (Darmstadt). As an entrepreneur, he is currently an Associate Partner at Amontis Consulting AG (Heidelberg), a tech entrepreneur in the FinTech ecosystem in Frankfurt with Tech4Fin Germany and Factoring Blockchain Solutions. He is also on the advisory board of Meshed Systems (Munich). Previously, he founded an organization for global special events in London, was the founder of an electronic training platform for the Asian market in Hong Kong and founder of the electronic workshop application ClearMechanic Germany.
Others say about him: "He is a mixture of positive thinking, enthusiastic, resilient, open and able to work with different types of people and cultures, a mixture of Latin American joie de vivre and German/Anglo-Saxon work ethic."
In terms of how he deals with people in projects, he says: "Every person, whether employee or external, contributes to the success of a project or company and is therefore also responsible for it. In return, they receive the possible or necessary support from me, which in turn can be a mixture of professional and personal attention or other (e.g. financial or organizational) resources."
