More about the interim manager
The interim manager is an internationally experienced executive with extensive experience as a troubleshooter. For a major international corporation in the energy sector, he has repeatedly led faltering major projects to success. Whether a company sale, M&A, expansion, joint venture or transformation: the interim manager is adept at turning the most difficult business challenges into opportunities and successfully implementing them. With a keen sense for sustainable win-win situations, he brings even the most difficult negotiations to a positive conclusion. After working abroad and on project assignments (USA, Middle East, Europe, Asia, Africa), he can also score points with his extensive intercultural experience. The interim manager now offers these skills not only to corporations, but also to medium-sized companies and investors.
The interim manager is a real team player. Through leadership without formal authority, he motivates a wide variety of characters and implements solutions in a timely manner. He combines German virtues with American nonchalance and optimism. His enjoyment of working with people, his passion for developing ideas in a team and leading them to success together characterize his personality and his professional and social skills. He sees change as an opportunity. New things interest and motivate him. His cooperative management style and ability to delegate effectively form the basis of his successful project work.
About the interim manager's career: After completing a degree in business administration, his career path took him into the energy sector. At a medium-sized German subsidiary of Shell and ExxonMobil, he soon took on management positions in the areas of joint venture investments and corporate affairs. His activities there were characterized by the liberalization of the energy markets and numerous transformation and adjustment processes. After moving to ExxonMobil, he headed the sales division for key accounts for natural gas in Germany with a market share of 15 percent. He later took on business development tasks in the European energy business.
This was followed by twelve years in the USA leading major projects and in change management at ExxonMobil. For more than a decade, his employer deployed him around the world to master the most difficult commercial challenges and establish strategically important business relationships. These included the sale of power plant interests in Asia and companies in Africa, negotiating highly complex energy projects with major business partners and advising on a wide range of international growth projects with high investment requirements.
