Experience, in context.

1. 08/2025 – 09/2026strato7 GmbHCEO, subsequently Partner
2. 05/2024 – 07/2025fka GmbHManaging Partner Consulting

Built the consulting platform at fka and subsequently led strato7 as a consulting start-up, combining engineering expertise with advice to industrial and mobility companies.

• Built and qualified EUR 3.6m in order volume within 24 months and secured two long-term Sino-European positioning partnerships.
• Advised executives on market entry, growth and operating models, drawing on technology roadmaps and market research. Developed consulting services in sales transformation, regulation, sustainability, AD/ADAS data and AI.
• Developed an approach for European industry based on China Speed research: shorter decision cycles, earlier industrialisation and pragmatic risk management.

Electric light-commercial-vehicle and micro-mobility start-up facing severe financing and market pressure.

• Professionalised governance, the product portfolio, procurement and industrialisation. Built sourcing and partner structures in Europe, the Middle East and China; strengthened in-house development and manufacturing options.
• Led investor discussions concerning more than EUR 120m in potential funding and stakeholder communication during insolvency self-administration.

Precision blanks and advanced machining; responsibility for turnaround and repositioning.

• Restored profitable growth after restructuring. Revenue increased from EUR 18m to EUR 52m.
• Generated EUR 8.7m in new business in one year against a forecast below EUR 2m. Expanded into aerospace and machinery, Southeast Asia and North America.
• Reorganised operations, pricing and global sourcing. Built development partnerships and filed the company’s first steel-milling patent.

Strategy and sales consulting for industrial clients.

• Built new advisory services and a stronger key-account sales organisation. Won clients in Europe and Asia, gaining deep insight into aerospace, logistics, machinery and process industries beyond my core sectors.

Family-owned automotive supplier undergoing a strategic and ownership transition.

• Held commercial responsibility for approximately EUR 650m and led 55 sales employees across Germany, Mexico and the USA. Reorganised sales, added sales-service functions and strengthened senior customer relationships.

Global sales, marketing and R&D responsibility, with 95 employees at seven international locations.

• Built global key-account management and reorganised sales, pricing and KPI-based controlling. Material sales exceeded 400,000 tonnes; profitability improved by four percentage points.
• Established product management and integrated R&D. Broadened copper-alloy and coating portfolios, diversified customers, contributed to two M&A projects and relaunched the brand internationally.

International projects in lightweighting, automation and production systems.

• Managed >EUR 180m across 50+ programmes. Recovered underperforming projects and established a cross-company PMO, project teams and monitoring to improve delivery and risk escalation.

Five years in laser-welding production; then leadership in production planning, quality and technology.

• Relaunched Tailored Blanks with four new product lines, five implemented process-technology patents and expansion beyond automotive. Approximately EUR 240m in portfolio and new-product responsibility.
• Spent 2.5 years in Wuhan supporting integration linked to an approximately EUR 260m transaction. Built the Global Technology & Sales Circle and customer/university development partnerships.