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Business Transformation Consultant / Program leader

Work Experience

Wake Asset Management SA, August 2007 – July 2008
Chief Operations Officer, Hedge Fund Industry, Fund of Fund, Convertible Arbitrage

One year of Task Force in the Hedge Fund industry replicating successfully the experience acquired in other industries for an offshore Convertible Arbitrage Fund doted with max. $ 250 Mio AUM.
• Led a team of 6 officers from back to middle office, Software Development and IT roles
• Managed the implementation of a professional process driven culture to raise the company standards from craft to process enhancement in parallel with the implementation of a specialized financial platform for Hedge Funds called TRADAR handling trade capture, NAV and P&L
• Established the compliance role (MiFiD, SEC, money laundering) in the company.
• Realized the launch of new share classes and opened up a new prime broker relationship
• Introduced new valuation policy for OTC Products (Credit Default Swaps and Asset Swaps).
• Managed the relation with administrators, investors due diligence officers, prime brokers and offshore directors.

General Management Consultant & Co-Contractor, August 2005 - July 2007
International Venturing & Corporate Development, Change & Performance Management

Supported customers in facing their perspectives, finding their strategy, building their organization and managing their performance:
• Designed and implemented several performance improvement initiatives in several industries.
• Realized a feasibility study for the production of bio-fuels in Switzerland for an Oil company.

Swisscom Ltd, Strategy & Group Steering, Bern, Switzerland 2001 – 2005

Senior Venture & Business Development Manager, (2005)
Coached management teams and boards of directors of small Ventures with seeding components and led Business development activities:
• Incubated several start-ups with disruptive character using clear articulation of the voice-of-the-customer linked with fast prototyping techniques.
• Managed M&A operations including Due Diligences, Deal Negotiations & Closing.

Head of Group Venture & Investment Management (2004)
Managed simultaneously corporate development and M&A projects incl. Due Diligences, Deal Negotiations & Closing with teams of up to 60 people in Europe, Asia and throughout the USA.

Build-up & Participation Manager (2003)
Pioneered disruptive attacker business model, played an active role in the Board of Directors including extensive lobbying at all levels among the corporate senior executives ensuring proper interface between entrepreneurship and corporate rigidity.
• Supported the start-up CEO in his quest to pivot business model within the financial defined boundaries until achieving the real successful one.
• Oversaw the post-merger integration process and put the optimal Pan-European company structure in place in order to optimize tax, VAT and company steering.

Head of Group Strategic Performance Management 2001 – 2002
Organization's shaper and troubleshooter at Senior Executive level. Managed a team of 6 Performance consultants, led various task-forces with financial or organizational scope:
• Reengineered the group strategic planning process reducing the management burden by 40%.
• Reengineered top-down the management reporting system for the board of Directors and the Executive Board across the entire group and implemented a new incentive system.
• Supported the CEO during the restructuring of the Group Headquarters going from 450 FTE to 250 FTE, with a significant cost reduction without service level reduction.
• Moderated top management strategy and planning workshops with 12 CEOs and Executive VPs.

Swisscom AG, Network Services Division, Bern, Switzerland 1999 – 2000
Head of Performance Indicators and Controlling directly managing a team of 5 performance officers:
• Implemented and managed the first balanced scorecards as strategic planning & performance controlling tool for a division (4000 FTE, CHF 3.5 Bio Op. Exp., CHF 1. Bio Cap. Exp.).
• Led several work streams during the restructuring and carve-out of the Swisscom Group from an integrated to a holding structure.


Telecom PTT, Network Services, Branch Office Geneva, Switzerland, 1997 – 1998
Deputy Managing Director and Business Controller:
• Implemented a state of the art controlling for the branch office (CHF 9 Mio Op. Exp., 94 FTE), which has been later enforced as a standard within the entire region.
• Implemented the SAP R3 CO/FI/MM modules.
• Revolutionary financed and re-engineered the construction of a Fiber to the Home (FTTH) network (CHF 40 Mio Cap.Exp.). Spun-off within six month two cable TV networks (CHF 100 Mio NBV).


Tetra Pak International SA, Lausanne, Switzerland 1996 –1997
Financial Analyst - European Headquarter:
• Produced Management reporting and performed consolidation of the regional set of accounts.
• Gained insights about world-class financial structures maximizing tax shields.


PricewaterhouseCoopers, Geneva, Switzerland 1993 –1996
Senior - Auditing Business Department:
• Audited high-profile multinational manufacturing companies, international private banks, financial and government institutions.

Education

IMD, Lausanne, Switzerland, 2002 - 2003
Executive Master in Business Administration

INSEAD, Fontainebleau, France, 2001 (1 week)
Program Achieving Outstanding Performances

University of Geneva, Switzerland, 1991 - 1993
Degree in Economic Sciences, Focus Applied Econometrics

Skills

Leadership / Management:
• Chief Operations Officer of a $ 250 Mio Convertible Arbitrage Hedge Fund.
• Deputy managing Director of a network provider unit (90+FTE, CHF 200 Mio revenues).
• Task Force leader of teams up to 60 people and up to € 150 Mio impact.
• Various "Head of" positions with up to 10 direct reports with successful track record in ramping-up new roles.

Change management expertise:
• 4 years business transformation for a telecom group (15k FTE and $ 10+ Bio revenues).
• 3 years high tech international corporate and venture development.
• 2 years management consulting performance improvement in various industries.
•1 year industrialization of back/middle office processes in a Hedge Fund.
• 1 year process reengineering for the deployment of Fiber to the Home(FTTH) network.

Portfolio of main Projects / Initiatives / Transactions
• Project management for business transformation initiatives (major reorganization, carve-out, post merger integration, downsizing, ramp-up).
• Reengineering and management of strategy / planning processes for a blue chip.
• Implementation of performance management and incentive systems (Balanced Scorecards, Activity Based Costing, customization of the EFQM model).
• Industrialization of back-office and middle office operations processes for a Hedge Fund.
• Lead of M&A transactions, incl. due diligences and closing of deals.
• Incubation of start-ups, coaching of several board members.
• Involvement in several fund raising operations.
• Implementation of diverse IT Platforms (SAP™ Modules, Tradar™).

Soft skills:
• Open, very responsible, committed and competent, very efficient and goal oriented, positive to change.
• Ability to communicate easily at different all level (board members, employees), to give feedback positively and to learn from his mistakes.
• Team Energizer, Leader able to assume high level of responsibilities, able to coordinate a wide range of interest and to take decisions in a well-considered and confident way.
• Entrepreneur spirit, problem solver, clever negotiator in French, German, English.

International Exposure:
• Led negotiations with external counsels, advisors & targets in Asia/USA/ Europe
• Used to perform in multicultural environments (2 years MBA studies at IMD with 60+ different nationalities) so as with his Broad International network

Languages

French: Mother tongue,
German, English: Fluent,
Italian: some basics, very good understanding

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