Experience

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  Sanford Rose Associates Fallen Timbers

  • United States
  • Biotechnology Research
  • 1 - 100 Employee

  • Managing Partner

    • Jul 2008 - Present

    Helmut held senior management, CEO positions during the last 20 years of his career. His expertise is in identifying top-performing talents, as well as organizing business start-ups, formulating/executing business turn-arounds, leading organizational change, lean implementation, team building, leadership coaching, value innovation and market space creation.Helmut understands the power of Finding People Who Make a Difference® for his clients. Helmut possesses a Bachelor degree in Mining, a Masters degree in Ceramic Engineering, he completed business and administration studies all at Universities in Essen, Germany. In his free time, Helmut enjoys traveling, hiking, skiing and seeing different parts of the world. He likes to study and implement different types of management and the art of leadership, relationship and creativity providing directions, confidence and capabilities with a high degree of success. Helmut will help to make you and your business more successful.

  • Managing Partner

    • 2008 - Present

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  Lafarge/Braas Ceramic Division

  • Managing Director and CEO

    • Jan 1992 - Dec 1998

    Managing Director & CEO of RuppKeramik GmbH, a Subsidiary of Lafarge/Braas GmbH, in Buchen Odenwald, Germany; developing RuppKeramik to the Number 1 Clay Roofing Tile Producer in Germany by building 5 new manufacturing facilities and acquiring 1 major clay roofing tile company. Total Revenues of Euro 100 Million.1994 – 1998 Chairman of The Board Tonindustrie Heisterholz in Germany, a clay roofing tile division of Lafarge/Braas Dachsysteme.

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  Boral Bricks, Inc. and Boral Industrie, GmbH

  • Managing Director and CEO

    • Aug 1978 - Dec 1991

    VP Engineering, VP Sales & Marketing, VP Manufacturing to Executive VP & Divisional General Manager Boral Bricks, Inc. Augusta, Georgia USA; helping to make Boral Number 1 in the US Brick Industry by acquiring 5 brick companies and building the most efficient, productive and lowest operating cost 135 million brick producing facility in North America during 1979.Managing Director & CEO Boral Industrie GmbH in Duesseldorf, Germany; acquiring building material companies, a total of twenty plants, and managing the entire operation throughout Germany and The Netherlands.

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  Keller H.C.W. GmbH

  • Executive VP & General Manager

    • Jan 1970 - Aug 1978

    I was hired in Germany to run Keller's Operation (The Keller Corporation, Inc.) in Pennsylvania, USA. Building the company from 5 employees to a major equipment and brick production facility supplier with 50 employees. Between 1970 and 1978 The Keller Co. had built 12 brick production facilities and became the Number 1 Supplier for Brick Equipment and Entire Brick Production Plants in the US.