Experience

AG Cilander

• Switzerland
• Textile Manufacturing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Chief Sales Officer (CSO)

  • Jan 2022 - Present

  - Industrial, Sports, Interior & Architecture, Fashion - Responsibility: Sales & Marketing - Key accounts, direct customers, distributors and agents - Sales realignment for better brand awareness and product reach - Development and implementation of new, continuous sales processes based on ISO 9001 - Relaunch and online sales of the PLANOFIL® & Brennet brands - Turnover: CHF 50 million - Employees: 23, 4 direct reports - Industrial, Sports, Interior & Architecture, Fashion - Responsibility: Sales & Marketing - Key accounts, direct customers, distributors and agents - Sales realignment for better brand awareness and product reach - Development and implementation of new, continuous sales processes based on ISO 9001 - Relaunch and online sales of the PLANOFIL® & Brennet brands - Turnover: CHF 50 million - Employees: 23, 4 direct reports



Sefar Group

• Switzerland
• Textile Manufacturing
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Market Manager Filter Components EuMeLa

  • Mar 2015 - Dec 2021

  - Automotive IATF 16949, Medical ISO 13485, Acoustic, Appliance, Aerospace- Responsibility: products, sales & marketing- Direct customers, subsidiaries, distributors and agents- Development and implementation of new, end-to-end sales processes- Requirements management: systematic collection of customer requirements for the purpose of configuration and calculation of the sales products- Turnover: CHF 75 million- Employees: 8, 6 direct reports

• Sales Manager Filter Components EuMeLa

  • 2009 - Mar 2015

  - Responsibility: sales & marketing- Direct customers, subsidiaries, distributors and agents- Sales control center: overview and management KAM with KPIs- Market analyses: strategic directions for new products and services- Market and sales development- Turnover increase from 23 to 47 million CHF- Employees: 6, 4 direct reports

• Key Account Manager Healthcare & Filter Elements

  • 2007 - 2009

  - Medical ISO 13485- Responsibility: major customers such as Roche, Abbott, Fresenius, B. Braun, Baxter- Turnover: CHF 12 million

• Manager Production (Finishing)

  • 2004 - 2007

  - Responsibility: production, development and laboratory- Benchmarking: comparison of different production locations with standardized KPIs- Employees: 50, 6 direct reports

• Manager Production (Weaving)

  • 1998 - 2004

  - Responsibility: production, development and coordination of plants in Heiden, Widnau & La Tour Du Pin (FR)- Development of production strategy - costs and efficiency- IT projects: implementation of BDE and ERP software- Automation, rationalization, quality and efficiency increases- Sensor technology: optical sensors for monitoring critical process variables- Employees: 130, 8 direct reports