In the light of our efforts to expand globally, we have recently established a subsidiary in White Plain, NY. Our new North American headquarters will support our distributors and customers in the US, Canada and México.

Fund2.Me was a Hong Kong based crowdfunding platform providing local start-up’s access to money and resources for Round 1 & 2 fundings. With a team of professionals, we supported founders like The Chinese Time Keeper, APP Edu & ERI to prepare their pitch & formulate short & long term business goals before and after their crowd funding campaigns.

Besides being one of the founders, I was responsible for the overall site development from an operational point of view including but not limited to

• managing the development team for the front- and backend end UI
• payment processes and management of crowd funding campaigns
• managing the compliance & regulations department
• donation & equity backing system.
• site security

The incubator and fundraising platform had to go offline due to some significant changes in the HK monetary funding policies.

As Regional Manager, I was responsible for the market entry & development to China & India. During my time at SATECO, I

• Successfully developed company’s market entry strategy into Chinese automotive market including but not limited to Market- and Competition Analysis, Break Even and ROI calculation.
• Incorporated company as a FICE in Suzhou China with a budget of € 600 investment.  Managed an overall revenue of € 4.5M covering China, India, and Korea.
• Established internal workflow and project management system based on Lotus Notes.
• Hired and trained local sales staff including engineering department.
• Implemented various marketing tools for Chinese market including but not limited to LinkedIn Groups, Newsletter, Chinese Website and Catalogue, which boosted confidence with local automotive suppliers to do business with our organisation.
• Supported local manufacturing facility in Guangzhou & Beihai – China with more than 2,000 Staff in trouble shooting & TS16949 Audits.
• Built strong customer base and strengthened relations with international OEM’s in China.
• Provided personal training to customer’s engineering teams as well as trouble shooting support.
• Developed customer base of Tier 1 suppliers, such as; VALEO, Delphi, TRW, and KOSTAL to name a few.

During my time with NOVADO it was a subsidiary of MBG International Premium Brands, which belongs to the Krombacher Group, the largest privately owned Beverage Company in Germany. Its purpose was to handle the merchandising business through local sourcing in China. With internal and external clients such as Perrier, Orangina and Rohde & Schwarz, the company’s annual turnover reached € 4.2 Million.

The idea of NOVADO was born in 2006 with a simple business plan I sent to 80 industrial and merchandising companies in Germany. Soon after MBG sent me to China with 30.000 EUR in my pocket to set up a local purchasing office.

Due to our success, we relocated our office to Shanghai in 2007 and NOVADO. Meanwhile we built a team with more than 12 purchasers which were responsible for a purchasing volume of more than 4.5 Mio. EUR.

Beside my full-time Job with Polaris Cap Factory I supported the companies owner in his main business at Eisbaer GmbH in in strategical questions, accounting and cash flow management.

Polaris Cap Factory was specialised in advertisement materials with a strong focus on headgear. When I started working as a freelancer, my focus as in customer acquisition as well as sourcing and purchasing. Within my time at the company we managed to increase the annual sales revenue from 20,000 EUR to 225,000 EUR.