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MANAGER PROFILE
Interim CEO for international SMEs in production and trade

Interim CEO for international SMEs in production and trade

  • Growth in regulatory demanding industries (healthcare, life sciences)
  • Establishment and expansion of sales networks in DACH, UK, Asia and USA
  • Troubleshooter for overcoming acute and structural crises

"As interim CEO, I support international SMEs in production and trade"

Qualifications

MBA - Graduate Business Economist - Languages: German, English, French, Italian, Spanish

Stations

Tovenca - Schaerer-Mayfield - Multi-Color-Corporation - Topwell - Genoud - Clean-Air-Service

More about the interim manager

The interim manager is an experienced C-level executive for restructuring, turnaround and realignment as well as crisis management. His industry focus is on large, internationally active medium-sized companies. His particular focus is on regulatory demanding industries such as healthcare and pharmaceuticals. The Swiss national is usually mandated as interim CEO or division head. Due to his multilingualism (German, English, French, Italian, Spanish) and intercultural experience from assignments in Europe (DACH), the UK and the USA, the Swiss national is predestined for international assignments. The expert has been working independently as an interim manager since 2004.

In his most recent assignment (starting in 2022), the interim manager is leading the expansion of the sales and distribution points in Europe as European President at a British healthcare company and is also responsible for the digitalization of order management. Prior to that, as interim CEO of a Swiss publishing house for high-quality print products, he realized the turnaround and successfully built up new business in Asia (Korea, Singapore). For a US company in the cleanroom technology sector, he successfully expanded the branches in the DACH region after the company had been acquired a year earlier and had to undergo a challenging post-merger integration.

Finds solutions that enable sustainable improvements

Whether crisis, restructuring or realignment: the interim manager is characterized by his long-term and sustainable thinking. His "can-do"- mentality favors the turnaround. As a trained businessman, generalist and sales professional, he grasps situations and drivers very quickly. With his profound, international marketing and sales experience, he creates customer-focused market concepts. In addition, he is constantly continuing his education and is a sparring partner in the areas of order management, digitalization, regulations, standards and ESG projects. He quickly finds his way around a complex regulatory environment and is able to maintain very good relationships with stakeholders.

The interim manager is a natural, strong leader with a great deal of empathy. He strengthens and develops individuals and organizations and promotes the self-motivation of teams and individuals. Due to his career, multilingualism and international experience, he communicates at eye level and with the necessary empathy at all hierarchical levels.

His clients value his analytical expertise and ability to develop strategically optimal solutions. He contributes to the team both operationally and tactically. He pursues realistic planning and attaches great importance to appropriate control. This results in solutions that enable sustainable improvements.

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Created by Charly Kahle
Last updated on 17.04.2026

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