Experience

Arxada

• Switzerland
• Chemical Manufacturing
• 700 & Above Employee

• Senior Director Global Marketing, Professional Hygiene

  • Feb 2023 - Present

• Head of Marketing Hygiene - EIMEA

  • Apr 2022 - Jan 2023



Ecolab

• United States
• Chemical Manufacturing
• 700 & Above Employee

• Vice President Integration CID LINES & Country Manager Switzerland, Exec. Committee member

  • May 2020 - Dec 2021

  Responsible for integration of CID LINES and creation of the global division “Global Animal Health”. Rewarded with the ECOLAB 2020 Commercial Excellence Award for the Global Animal Health integration.

• VP Marketing F&B Europe and Country Manager Ecolab Switzerland, Exec. Committee member

  • Aug 2018 - May 2020

  Additionally responsible for the functional leadership across all divisions in Switzerland. Re-creation of a strong team feeling within the Swiss Leadership team leads to the re-establishment of ECOLAB Schweiz as most profitable EU country organization in 2020.

• VP Marketing ECOLAB F&B Europe

  • Sep 2014 - Aug 2018

  Strategic leadership of the business segments Cleaning and Sanitation, PharmaCos, Agri and Engineering (revenue 600 Mio. $). Portfolio optimization (reduction of SKUs by 60%) and re-organization of the joined R&D- and MKT-Teams leads to boost of innovations sales.



Sax Farben AG, Urdorf

• Zürich und Umgebung, Schweiz

• CEO Sax Farben AG

  • Aug 2013 - Sep 2014

  Strategic and operative leadership of SAX Farben AG Strategic and operative leadership of SAX Farben AG



BASF

• Germany
• Chemical Manufacturing
• 700 & Above Employee

• Head of Global Business Segment Management Admixtures

  • Jul 2011 - May 2013

  Management of the largest global segment "admixtures" within BASF Construction Chemicals, revenue 1.2 bn$; Responsible for growth and profitability in key regions. Restructuring of country organizations (Japan China, Iberia, Italy) with regard to sales- and marketing-resources, refocusing on profitable growth in the emerging markets India, Turkey, Russia etc. through consequent focus on innovations and value-added selling. Strong personal grounding into the divers „customer needs“, due to permanent visits of local and global key customers. Show less

• Head of Marketing

  • Oct 2007 - Jun 2011

  Member of ExCom RBU EMEA, revenue 1 bn $, Leading extended Marketing team and rsponsible for innovation pieline, projects and roll-out



DEGUSSA FRANCE

• France
• Chemical Manufacturing

• Degussa Construction Chemicals France S.A.S., Evry, France, Directeur Technique et Marketing

  • Oct 2005 - Sep 2007

  Member of the ExCom (45 Mio. $ revenue), responsible for marketing and product development on country level. Implementation of the latest polymer-technologies against the initially strong resistance of the sales-force leads to revenue- and profitability-boost. Consequently focusing the whole country organization on innovation leadership. Member of the ExCom (45 Mio. $ revenue), responsible for marketing and product development on country level. Implementation of the latest polymer-technologies against the initially strong resistance of the sales-force leads to revenue- and profitability-boost. Consequently focusing the whole country organization on innovation leadership.



Degussa Construction Chemical

• Augsburg

• Degussa Divisional Research and Technology Transfer, Head of technology group "Inorganic binders"

  • Jan 2002 - Sep 2005

  18 co-workers in 3 labs, responsible for global R&D-projects in the area of dry-mix mortars. Development of the „Nano-Fill-Technology“ is he basis of the current „Nano“-premium-product-line of PCI Augsburg GmbH. 18 co-workers in 3 labs, responsible for global R&D-projects in the area of dry-mix mortars. Development of the „Nano-Fill-Technology“ is he basis of the current „Nano“-premium-product-line of PCI Augsburg GmbH.



PCI Augsburg GmbH

• Germany
• Wholesale Building Materials
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Head of basic research

  • Apr 2000 - Dec 2001