Michael guides large companies through the complexities of cross-border financial and operational transformation as well as post-merger integration.
He has more than two decades of professional experience as a business and financial advisor and an interim manager. Michael has a particular focus on acting as interim CFO for multinational corporates. He was previously with Deutsche Bank as a relationship manager in the corporate and investment banking and workout department. He also has experience in stakeholder management and has accomplished many refinancings.
Michael holds an MBA (Diplom-Kaufmann) from the School of Business Economics at Otto Friedrich University in Bamberg, Germany.
Key Engagements:
- Served as an interim Group CFO for a global leading provider for hearing aids (as wholesaler and retailer)
- Served as an interim Group CFO for a global market leader with wholesale and retail in the medtec industry
- Served as an interim Group CFO for a global leading CDMO in the pharma industry
- Served as an interim CFO for a large distributor and retailer in the automotive industry carved-out from a family business and merged with other PE-owned companies
- Served as an interim CFO for an international producer and retailer in the jewelry business. Building new Finance organization, setup new reporting framework, budgeting process, working capital management, PMO / cost management
- Served as an interim Group CFO for an international market leader in the areas of infection prevention, hygiene and preservation
- Served as an interim CFO for a European wholesaler. Building the bridge between an initial family business sold to a private equity firm
- Led numerous stakeholder negotiations in transformation situations
- Led the transformation of an international shipping group and international industrial goods producer; designed and subsequently implemented necessary changes in the group
- Implemented restructuring and post-merger integration concepts
