Mandates
A curated selection of mandates from the last ten years. Each row: industry, company size, focus, key result and PE relevance.
| Year | Industry | Size | Focus | Key result | PE |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Public IT / government | ≈2,000 staff | Turnaround & restructuring | 39m EUR receivables recovered, no more overdrafts (ITDZ Berlin) | no |
| 2025 | Healthcare (PE) | ≈2,400 staff | Group IT & exit strategy, AI-supported | Exit multiple +1.2–1.7, IT aligned to value (ARTEMIS) | yes |
| 2025 | Healthcare / social | ≈2,300 staff | Group IT & digitalisation strategy, AI | IT from cost factor to business enabler (Oberlinhaus) | no |
| 2024–2025 | Automotive / building tech | ≈53,000 staff | Carve-out & IT build-up (57 sites) | SAP S/4 platform to consolidate 17 ERP systems (Carrier) | yes |
| 2024 | Mechanical engineering | ≈5,000 staff | IT turnaround / vacancy bridging | Dynamics 365 Business Central live on day 1 (Utsch) | yes |
| 2023–2024 | Chemicals / pharma | ≈9,000 staff | Carve-out (8 entities, Europe) | Day-zero functionality & TSA secured, TOM built (ReciPharm) | yes |
| 2023 | Pharma logistics | ≈2,400 staff | Post-merger integration & cybersecurity | Major incidents 18 → 1, critical outages to 0 (AHD) | yes |
| 2018 | Coworking / real estate | ≈500 staff | ERP migration & process automation | SAP S/4 & CRM on day 1, scalability established (Design Offices) | yes |
| 2018 | Energy | Group | ERP consolidation & shared services | SAP R/3 → S/4 consolidated, productivity doubled (Gazprom Germania) | no |
| 2017–2018 | Mechanical engineering | ≈4,500 staff | IT turnaround & shared services | Stable operations achieved, SIAM introduced (KelvioN) | yes |
| 2017 | Automotive | ≈60,000 staff | IT due diligence | Solid decision basis & action plan (Dräxlmeier) | no |
| 2017 | Energy / utilities | ≈200 staff | Shared-services management | SLA structure redesigned, service management professionalised (Stadtwerke Bielefeld) | no |
| 2017 | Healthcare / social | ≈2,500 staff | Digitalisation | Paper-based core processes digitised (Bavarian Red Cross) | no |
| 2016 | Logistics / shipping | ≈2,500 staff | IT strategy | Digital transformation prepared in a consolidating industry (rickmers) | no |
| 2015–2016 | Software / IT | ≈700 staff | IT turnaround (hypergrowth) | Growth > 40% p.a. unblocked, major incidents 8 → 0 (TeamViewer) | yes |
Before (2004–2015): Group CIO of the ias Group plus 15+ further mandates and permanent roles in IT management, consulting and general management — incl. Gazprom Germania (shared services), bertelsmann arvato, BMW, Ampleon, Securitas Wertdienste (CIO), Hüngsberg.
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