Interim Manager: The picture showed a golden ceiling.
MANAGER PROFILE
Crisis-tested CRO for SMEs

Crisis-tested CRO for SMEs

  • Crisis management, reorganization, restructuring, repositioning
  • Restructuring in insolvency and sale out of insolvency
  • Negotiations with works councils and trade unions on redundancy plans, related reconciliation of interests and collective restructuring agreements

"As CRO, I show medium-sized companies the way out of the crisis"

Qualifications

Diploma in Mechanical Engineering and Production Engineering - Diploma in Industrial Engineering (both from RWTH Aachen University)

Stations

Merkel Freudenberg Fluidtechnic - Berkenhoff GmbH - Multitec-Jakob GmbH & Co. KG - Surface Technologies International AG

More about the interim manager

The interim manager is driven by the idea of supporting companies in crisis on their way back to sustainable and long-term profitability. He is able to inspire employees to save "their" company and secure their jobs in the long term. The change processes he initiates always leverage and utilize the potential available in the workforce. He pays particular attention to getting everyone involved on board. This is especially true when managers or shareholders lack acceptance of the seriousness of the situation. In order to resolve this cognitive dissonance before calling in an interim manager, he attaches great importance to case-specific communication.

The interim manager learned to combine technical and economic aspects early on in his career. It goes without saying that he always considers the business implications when making decisions about technical developments. As an interim manager, he concentrated from the outset on working in the sectors in which he had previously worked. This reduced the induction period and the time it took to discuss an initial concept and to go into detail.

The unique selling points of the interim manager can be summed up in a short formula: strong analytical skills, openness, goal-oriented communication in plain language - or as the Italian Jesuit Claudio Acquaviva put it: "Fortiter in re, suaviter in modo" (clear in substance, firm in tone).

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Created by Charly Kahle
Last updated on 14.04.2026

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CEO for insolvency in self-administration (mechanical engineering and toolmaking)

The client was the owner of a group of companies involved in toolmaking and the manufacture of components for machine tools. The company had two active and one inactive site in the Allgäu region. The interim manager took over the management ...

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Project manager for restructuring and reorganization in mechanical and plant engineering

The interim manager took over responsibility for the restructuring and reorganization of one of the two locations in southwest Germany for a company in the mechanical and plant engineering sector...
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Process optimization in the production of special wires

The interim manager was commissioned by a manufacturer of specialty wires. The company's products are used in wire erosion, electronics, welding and soldering. The aim of the interim mandate: A high level of plant availability was to be ensured in production...
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Restructuring and transformation of an industrial group

In May 2021, the interim manager was commissioned by a medium-sized industrial group based in Germany - Industrial Packaging and Industrial Handling...
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Production of pneumatic seals reorganized

A company for the production of seals for use in pneumatics (industrial and automotive) was experiencing a negative trend in results despite stable production conditions over a long period of time. The interim manager was commissioned to analyze the situation and set up a restructuring program...

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