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Interim CEO with a focus on SMEs and South America

Interim CEO with a focus on SMEs and South America

  • Management tasks in medium-sized companies
  • Crisis management and restructuring in SMEs
  • Growth and market access in South America

"As interim CEO, my focus is on SMEs and South America."

Qualifications

Internationally experienced Senior Manager with many years of experience in more than ten South American countries - Multicultural competence - Diplom-Kaufmann (LMU) - International Management Training - Controller's Diploma - Lecturer - Foreign languages: English, Portuguese, Spanish

Stations

Freudenberg Group (Chemical Specialities - Sealing & Vibration Control Technology) - Donauer Solar Technology - Frauenthal Automotive - Fresenius University - TCI Management Consulting

More about the interim manager

The interim manager is an internationally experienced executive (managing director, CEO, CFO, CRO, project manager) with special expertise in change management and crisis management.

As a trained businessman and controller, his range of activities has become increasingly broad and international over the course of more than 30 years of professional experience. Above all, he is driven by the desire to take on responsibility. The desire to make things better still drives him today.

Having lived in South America for many years has taught him that people and companies can be successful even in highly volatile environments with energy, flexibility, common sense and assertiveness. He has initiated and implemented changes responsibly and successfully in more than 50 national and international projects. A key factor in his success has always been that the interim manager succeeds in taking people along with him in these change or transformation processes.

SMEs are a matter close to his heart. The individuality, flexibility, capacity for innovation and, above all, the direct and open cooperation exert a very special attraction on him. You can still really make a difference in the SME sector. Not with "clever sayings", but by lending a hand (and a head). SMEs have their own corporate culture, and values (such as loyalty) are very important in SMEs. Medium-sized companies offer an enormous variety of entrepreneurial activities. He uses his knowledge and experience to achieve this.

Every CV has them, and so do companies: special situations. They can be positive or negative; in any case, they are exceptional and occur rarely (sometimes only once). These situations usually cannot be planned and often cannot be foreseen. The interim manager considers himself lucky to have experienced a whole series of such special situations. He derives important management qualities from this experience: not getting into an operational rush, but calmly and decisively setting the direction and leading the way. Only demand from others what you are prepared to give yourself. Then every change is not just a risk, but above all an opportunity.

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Created by Charly Kahle
Last updated on 17.04.2026

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