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The specific role of Advisor includes consultation and active management on European Internet matters as well as all preparatory work for the market entry of an innovative Internet platform in Germany, Switzerland and Austria. I also accepted requests to serve as Executive Advisor to CSFB, Citigroup, Canyon Capital Advisors and Investcorp.

Recruited to this newly created position to initiate, develop and implement new growth strategies for the non-France based European Logistics, Forwarding and Distribution Businesses with annual Revenues of €uro 1.05 Billion and 4.000 employees.

I reduced EBIT Operating losses by 97.4% from € 17.4 Million to € 0.5 Million in 2006 vs. 2005 by driving profitable Sales growth, discontinuing select economically unviable customer agreements, improving Pricing across the territory and deploying technology and engineering to large scale Logistics Projects.

Following another (the second in 12 months) Group-wide strategy change coupled with numerous Management Board changes (the CEO was changed twice in 6 months and 8 of 14 Exec Committee members left the Group in 2006), the Group’s European organisation was changed yet again from a territorial to a functional structure.

Directed, lead and represented the interests of GeoPost in Germany with € 1.0 Billion in Revenue.
Year-on-Year achievements included 83% EBIT improvement, € 100 Million Revenue increase, and a Return-on-Sales improvement of 350 basis points. Developed and implemented a long-term strategic plan including leveraging Technology (RFID adoption), initiating Customer Retention Programs, installing an international sales force including Key Account Strategic Sales programs and improving Pricing capabilities. Conceived, developed and led the largest Group-wide Project to implement Mobile Scanning technology to 8,000 Couriers across Europe. During my tenure, DPD improved its Brand image from 26th place to 4th place of all German logistics companies. Leadership and Employee incentive/support programs across the organization were developed and implemented which included the creation of a company-owned Training academy.

Dramatically improved Path-to-Profitability across the Group of Companies in Scandinavia, Germany and the United Kingdom. Served on the Executive Management Board. Extended market leadership in Scandinavia and re-structured the company’s operations in the key markets of Germany and U.K. Tripled transactional volume in select markets. Secured continued triple digit-growth through strategic alliance deals (Yahoo!) in Scandinavia and extended market leadership. The Executive job was completed in 2003 and I was elected to Chairman of the Supervisory Board of German publicly listed daughter-company ricardo.de AG - a position I continue to hold to this day. During my tenure from 2001 to 2007 the revenue of Ricardo.de AG improved by 671% (from € 1.4 Million to € 10.8 Million) and the company’s value increased by 673% (from € 15 Million to € 101 Million in 2009) respectively.