Experience

Holcim MAQER Ventures

• Switzerland
• Wholesale Building Materials
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Maqer at Holcim

  • Jan 2019 - Present

  Building the #InternetOfNeed for circularity of building materials, in logistics and manufacturing through open innovation. Building the #InternetOfNeed for circularity of building materials, in logistics and manufacturing through open innovation.



Holcim

• Switzerland
• Wholesale Building Materials
• 700 & Above Employee

• Global Digital Lead Manufacturing

  • May 2017 - Present

  Intrapreneur. Building digital products and ventures at scale. Focus on construction material circularity, concrete sales, cement manufacturing. Leading transformation and change in factories on data centric working. Helped establish a digital innovation team in the manufacturing BU.Case: #PACT connects more than 165 cement factories in 45 countries providing real-time data transparency, employee collaboration, performance gap analysis and quality predictions based on machine learning for operational decision making. Show less

• Senior Manager - Knowledge and Change

  • Jan 2016 - Apr 2017

  Built a global program for collaboration, knowledge management and best practice sharing in cement manufacturing from scratch, including 18 global digital communities of virtual experts and 60 ambassadors on the ground to drive work culture and make virtual teams a central element of the operating model.

• Global Head Thermal Technology

  • May 2013 - Dec 2015

  Built up a department of in-house specialist engineers to drive global factory performance through energy efficiency and procurement programs, innovations in automatic plant operation, operations data analysis and emission reduction.

• Senior Innovation Manager New Technologies

  • Feb 2011 - Apr 2013

  Built a department on business model and technology innovation to manage the corporate R&D program in thermal and electrical energy efficiency, resource management, sustainable cement manufacturing technology. Consulted country organizations to set up their innovation strategy and fed the innovation pipeline based on a technology radar and user research on the ground.

• Consulting Engineer and R&D Project Manager

  • Jan 2008 - Jan 2011

  Acquired and led consulting projects on energy efficiency and alternative fuels reducing production cost and environmental footprint. Led R&D projects in the same field and built 2 consortia for EU funded R&D projects.



ETH Zürich

• Switzerland
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Lecturer

  • 2007 - Present

  Nano materials and energy technology (BA, MA, PhD program)

• Research and Teaching Associate

  • Feb 2003 - Jun 2007