Director Private Equity Operations

I am an Operational Private Equity Director working closely together with the top management and investors to improve enterprise value. This includes corporate performance improvements as well as restructuring and turnaround management measures.

• Buchhaltungsmitarbeiter
• Controlling3 J.
• Einkauf (allg.)
• Einkaufsverhandlungen3 J.
• Finanzen (allg.)3 J.
• Geschäftsfeldstrategie
• Produktionsleitung3 J.
• Strategische Unternehmensplanung3 J.
• Strategischer Einkauf3 J.
• Tender Manager (Ausschreibungsmanager)3 J.

595 Solutions SRL Brasov Romania, Brasov, Romania
Managing Director, repositioning company’s operations and strategy as an interims Managing Director for a German Automotive Subsidiary in Romania.

Do Capital Partners GmbH, Munich, Germany
Private Equity & Operations Director (started as Associate): Working on turnaround investments, distressed M&A and special situations, strongly involved in the value creation process (family office – target business: 50m€ – 500m€ annual revenue).
Strategy and transaction
•Participate in various projects in the area of finance, business development and transactions, including the preparation of investor reports and financial statements
•Conducting market and competitive research for portfolio companies (commercial due diligence)
•Creating a business plan and developing a market entry strategy for the magnesium recycling industry (buy and build strategy)

•Developed an operational restructuring implementation strategy for underperforming portfolio companies which led to 10m€ annul P&L effect (operational due diligence)
Strategic and operational value creation and performance improvement (selected)
•Improved liquidity and cash management up to 90 days by renegotiating financial liabilities and payment terms as well as applying reverse factoring
•Redesigning a new target operating model for the portfolio company while reducing labor costs by 30%
•Enhanced efficiency by running an e-procurement and digitalization initiative including IT infrastructure, Manufacturing Execution System (MES), Enterprise-Resource-Planning (ERP) rollout
•Set up a new sales and operations planning and execution to reduce the cash-to-cash cycle by 25%

Kerkhoff Consulting GmbH, Duesseldorf, Germany
Management Consultant: Working on procurement, supply chain management and corporate performance improvement projects in the Central Europe region
Management consulting projects

•Led multiple workstreams within the project team as a subproject leader on a global supply chain optimization case (team 5 consultants)
•Moderated workshops to capture fields of action and identified saving potential and cost-cutting measures within the client's organization
•Reduced working capital by 20% through optimizing inventory level and realigning stock ranges and inventory strategy
•Increased operations efficiency by 25% through implementing a new route concept for the in-house transport on the shopfloor level
•Accomplished savings of 1.5m€ p.a. in the global logistics costs by redesigning the pricing model for the forwarder
Cross- functional projects (Kerkhoff Analytics GmbH)
•Product development of a spend cube standard, which increases project deliverable efficiency by 50%
•Standardized the ETL process for spend analytics including data request, data processing, and data visualization for all Kerkhoff's practices
•Applied big data analysis on enterprise spend data to create transparency including purchasing volume, supplier and category management

Procurement, Supply Chain Management, M&A, Management, Restructuring, Turnaround Management, Strategy, Operations