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About us - Team
As a powerful team of experienced international management consultants, scientists and specialized professionals, we are supporting US- and European businesses in entering new marktes, in profitable business development and in problem solving. The majority of the persons listed below are not employees or shareholders of Euroserve Corp., but partners or affiliates of our Euroserve Network. Lawyers and CPAs/Tax Adivisors of our Network render their services as independent providers directly to the client.

Our experts are displayed by countries as follows. Some have offices
in several countries and/or cities:
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* Eastern US
* Central US
* Western US
* Canada
* Western Europe
* Eastern Europe
* Near East
* South America & Mexico
* Asia
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Eugen Hieber Eugen Hieber, MBA
Praesident

As an experienced international businessman for decades Mr. Hieber serves as Euroserve's president.
His experience, knowledge and capabilities as member of the board of directors in various national and international companies is of great value to our clients. Mr. Hieber is familiar with economic issues in Germany, Switzerland, USA, France, Argentina and India. Mr Hieber holds an advanced degree in Political Economics. font>
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Following: Eastern USA
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Koelb Alex Koelb, MBA
Chief Executive Officer
USA East-Coast

 After college, Mr. Koelb worked for 12 years with IBM and General Electric in Germany, Belgium, France and the US. After his career in management, Mr. Koelb established a software company and computing center in Frankfurt, Germany, which was later sold to First National City Bank. Thereafter he commenced his activities in management consulting. He has decades of experience and consults our clients in international banking, in business financing, in manufacturing industries, in hard software for information and telecommunication industrie, in sectors of automotive, electronics and energy industries.

Eva Winkler Eva Winkler, MBA
International Business Develoipment
USA East-Coast
Ms. Winkler holds an MBA degree from a German University and, with more than 25 years of experience, is an expert in analyzing, planning and implementing of entrepreneural processes. During her career she advised and analyzed hundreds of mid-size companies and start-ups and – if results were promising – negotiated and asserted financing by banks, venture-capital firms and other financial institutions.
Her capabilities include preparation of market entry strategies, organizing and implementing a US-sales office, foundation of company and financing of tasks and processes. She furthermore is experienced in international taxation between European and U.S. companies.
As a business development consultant she also serves our clients as an expert in due diligence, mergers & acquisitions and other fields of investment banking. Ms. Winkler has been working in the U.S. for more than 12 years; she speaks English and German

Michael Hentschel Michael Hentschel
International Finance
& Business-Development
USA - East Coast

 Mr. Hentschel and his team of six seasoned Corporate Finance specialists are experts in all types of enterprise finance, be it grants for research & development, venture capital, classic bank financing, private investor or angel-group funding or anything else.
With more than 28 years in planning and managing financial resources to make visions happen, Mr. Hentschel offers a wide range of expertise for start-ups or established businesses.
He has successfully achieved funding for rapidly growing venture stage companies to profitability, with a view to generating an attractive exit, building on an extensive background across multiple types of industries.
Mr. Hentschel is an exceptional strategic planner and hands-on organizational developer, a strong team leader with outstanding ability to organize, motivate and maintain world class talent with a deep, hands-on understanding of all aspects of finance, sales pipelines, marketing, business and corporate development.
Mr. Hentschel’s expertise is based on multiple management and financing assignments, e.g. as CFO where he raised $27 million for two venture companies in the past 2 years, as full-time employee in intense early growth situations, and P&L responsibility up to $425 million in VP Sales and general management roles.
His transactional experience includes: $50 million in financings as a corporate manager, over $70 million in financings as venture investor and investment analyst, over $30 million in financings as a corporate fund raising advisor, equity portfolio management experience with multiple high-tech venture investments. His results averaged 25%+ annual returns over 10 years at Schroder Ventures in personally-managed deals.
Mr. Hentschel attended Yale College with a full Economics Major course-load, worked 4 years as a professor of Executive MBA’s in “quantitative venture management tools” and published three 150-page books on financial and market prospects of new product.
Mr. Hentschel speaks English and German.

Ulrich Mrose Ulrich Mrose, M.Sc.
International Business Development
USA – East Coast

Mr. Mrose is an experienced expert in various commercial and technological areas. Before founding his own consulting firm, he worked for several international machinery companies in Germany and the US in several managerial positions.
He has years of international experience in importing & exporting, in marketing, as well as in configuration and adaptation of machinery and in certain fields of information technology, web-design and in using the internet as a global strategic business tool. He advises businesses of technological types of industry in regard with international business development.
In collaboration with our experts from other areas of consulting he also takes part in rendering services to municipal and state government organizations in sectors of economic development and investment policies.
Mr. Mrose obtained his Master degree in Electrical Engineering from a German university and speaks English and German fluently.

Dipl-Kfm Achim Albrecht Achim Albrecht, MBA
International Business-Development
USA - East-Coast

 Achim gained his first international business experience during his college years when he imported and marketed personal computers from Taiwan in Switzerland. He later worked as area manager Europe for a Swiss mechanical engineering firm as Sales Manager Europe, increasing revenues ny 40%. For a small Swiss telecommunications products firm he developed a plan to establish an overseas branch in India. After government approval he introduced and sold a convoy protection project (CPP) to an Indian government agency which led to immediate sales and further projects.
For DAIMLER-CHRYSLER in South Africa, he developed recommendations for senior management on marketability and production feasibility for the launch of a specialty-niche automotive product. His work resulted in approval and set-up of a marketing-plan for the chosen strategy.
In California he worked for DBA EXTROMARKETS in developing a used-aircraft pool for lease to private and public entities.
For CLASSIC HOUSE, California, he developed and managed marketing campaigns for office solution products for US and international distribution increasing revenues by 25% within first six months.
Achim attended universities in Switzerland and Germany and speaks English, German and French,

Frank M. Batchelor Frank M. Batchelor
International Business Development
USA- East-Coast

 Mr. Batchelor is a seasoned marketing expert with talents in establishing relationships at both the personal and the corporate level. He gained his expertise in various marketing and sales positions where he developed and managed international projects and partnerships.
He has international business experience in the Americas, Europe, Japan, and Australia. His ability to analyze and come up with valuable ideas that can increase competitive advantage and profitability is a core value of his services for our clients.
His core competencies comprise strategic marketing, start-up and management of international sales operations, OEM , VAR, distribution management, key account development.
EDUCATION: Massachusetts Institute of Technology – Sloan School, Master of Science – Management (MBA) Dartmouth College, Bachelors – Engineering Science.
Mr. Batchelor speaks English, is fluent in German and has a basic knowledge of French.

Kevin Roy Kevin Roy, MBA
Internet strategy & Website development
USA – East-Coast

 Kevin is the founding member of an executive team tasked with technical vision, prototype, implementation, and delivery of B2C and B2B client internet solutions. Responsible for all aspects of creation and development of internet, eCommerce, and eMarketing initiatives.
His firm is a full service internet strategy and development company that has created user centric internet and intranet sites for medium sized business as well as Fortune 500 companies. Their work has been featured on NBC and in the Boston Herald.
Responsibilities and accomplishments included: Identification and developed of ROI based solutions for client initiatives, design of a successful global commerce portals for Fortune 500 customer, development of lead generation and advertising tools for identifying business strategies and objectives.
Kevin and his executive team are tasked with technical vision, prototype, implementation, and delivery of B2C and B2B client internet solutions. Responsible for all aspects of creation and development of Bayline Media's internet, eCommerce, and eMarketing initiatives.
Before founding his firm, Kevin gaioned his experience in years of work for „eRoom Technology“, Cambridge, MA, where he served als Director Internet Marketing. "eRoom Technology" (acquired by EMC) created eRoom, a rapidly deployed and rapidly adopted Web-based collaborative workplace that enables distributed teams to work together to accelerate and improve development and delivery of products and services, optimize collaborative business processes, and improve innovation, problem-solving, and decision-making. Current customers include Raytheon, Intel, Ford Motor Company and Hewlett Packard.
Kevin graduated with distinction at Bentley College and studied Internet Usability at University of Massachusetts and Massachusetts Institue of Technology.

Dr. Bernd Janssen Dr. Bernd Janssen
international,pharma research
USA East-Coast

 Dr. Janssen has more than 25 years of experience in drug discovery, research management and international collaborations. Prior to founding Science&Management Consulting, a Massachusetts based firm that serves companies in Europe and the US, he held various leadership and management positions in the pharmaceutical industry, most recently as Director Medicinal Chemistry with Abbott Laboratories, and previously with BASF Pharma. As a graduate from the University of Bonn, Dr. Janssen earned his Ph.D. in Chemistry from the Ruhr University of Bochum (Germany). He has co-authored more than 50 basic patent applications and scientific papers, revealing his inventive contributions to Dermatology, Oncology and Immunology. He was also awarded the first BASF Innovation Prize for his seminal role in successfully moving a discovery project to the market. Dr. Janssen is member of several academic and industrial advisory boards.

James Conant James Conant
International Marketing & Public Realtions
USA East-Coast

 For more than 13 years, James Conant and his team of engineering and business experts have provided marketing communications and public relations services for a wide range of technology and consumer companies. These companies include manufacturers of electronic components, systems and subsystems, instrumentation for science, industry and medical, consumer and business software, and companies providing system integration, material testing and custom design services. Such services were rendered for companies from California to Massachusetts and from Europe to China.
Prior to that time he was Corporate Director of Marketing Communications with Keithley/MetraByte and Orion Research both high technology companies. Before starting USA Marketing Associates, James also worked for Analog Devices, Inc. in both Engineering and Marketing. James has 25 year of engineering, marketing and public relations experience. He has travelled worldwide, including The People’s Republic of China, Japan, Australia, Singapore, and Europe, providing technical and marketing assistance for various businesses throughout the years.
He has been a guest lecturer at Bentley College and Clark University on the subjects of Direct Mail Marketing, Public Relations, How to Develop a Successful Marketing Communications Plans, and analysis of Case Studies.
His education includes BSBA & BSEE programs at Northeastern University.
His firm focuses in working with established companies as well as start-ups that require professional marketing and public relations services, including Internet marketing, as well as traditional marketing.Their diverse public relations services have covered a breadth of industries, writing and publishing press releases and technical articles, on everything from Voice Activated Software to Automated Carwash Systems and from Remote Diagnostic Software on board the International Space Station to Instrumentation used to make Beer!

Jana Guerster Jana Guerster
Trade-Show & Marketing Services
USA East-Coast

 Ms. Guerster is a German citizen and renders trade-show & marketing services for foreign companies in entering or expanding in the US-marketplace. She offers support for preparing attendance at US trade-shows, for event management, office support and special project services like cold-calling actions, mailings, design of U.S. corporate ID etc.
Her scope of services furthermore includes English, German and Spanish translations, office management (accounting, marketing, virtual administration), staff search, comprehensive personal support in preparation and attendance at trade shows and conferences anywhere in the U.S., Canada and Mexico, e.g. SAE, Autointerior Show, Fabtech, Metalform, IMTS
Ms. Guerster gained her experience in previous positions with international companies, among them “EDS-Electronic Data Systems Corp.” where she worked as an Assistant-Manager in various administrative positions and in Human Relations.

John P. DeVilars John P. DeVilars
Managment Consulting in Renewable Energy and Ecology
USA East Coast

 John P. DeVillars is a Founder and Partner of his consulting company and Managing Partner of its affiliated investment group. He currently advises brownfield developers and environmental and renewable energy companies in the areas of project management, financing and capital sourcing, regulatory approvals, community and government relations and business development.
From 2000 to 2003, Mr. DeVillars served as the Executive Vice President of Brownfields Recovery Corporation (“BRC”), a Boston-based real estate investment and development company that focuses on environmentally impaired properties. He remains very active in BRC’s current development project – a 1200-acre industrial port facility in St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands – where, among other services, his firm is involved in site planning, project management, permitting, and the incorporation of green building standards and the use of renewable energy (wind, solar, biomass) and distributed generation into the development plans.
From 1994 to 2000, Mr. DeVillars served as the New England Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, where he directed the operations of 800 employees and a $400 million annual budget. Under his leadership EPA New England was recognized as a national leader in smart growth, regulatory reform, environmental technology, and brownfields development, winning more awards for successful reform than any other EPA office.Br> Mr. DeVillars previously served as Secretary of Environmental Affairs for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Chairman of the Board of the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority, and Chief of Operations for Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis.
From 1991 to 1994, he was Director of the Environmental Services Group for Coopers & Lybrand where he initiated and led the firm’s environmental management systems group. He has received numerous awards for his environmental service, including the President’s Award of the Nature Conservancy, given annually for national leadership in environmental affairs.
Mr. DeVillars holds an MPA from Harvard University and a BA from the University of Pennsylvania. He serves on the Board of Directors of Clean Harbors, Inc. and the Massachusetts Environmental Trust as well as several other privately held energy and environmental corporations and non-profit organizations.
From 1999 to 2003 Mr. DeVillars held the position of Lecturer in Environmental Policy in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and continues to lecture at MIT, the Harvard Graduate School of Design and the Kennedy School of Government.

Peter J. Deschenes P.J. Deschenes, EEM, BS.
Managment Consulting in Renewable Energy and Ecology
USA East Coast

 Peter-John is a founder and partner of his consulting company. He has consulted to numerous start-up environmental and energy technology companies seeking to launch new technologies or to enter new markets. His work includes the development and execution of marketing strategies for environmentally preferable product and service companies and the assessment of environmentally performance products.
He helps senior managers and executives make informed decisions on business strategy and product marketing. Mr. Deschenes has worked with clients in a diversity of industrial sectors to provide environmentally sound business solutions. His clients have worked in real estate development, real estate investing, building products, waste management, agriculture, industrial manufacturing, aerospace, power generation, energy technology, industrial recycling and pest control.
Prior to joining BlueWave, Mr. Deschenes worked at the Yale Center for Industrial Ecology, where he conducted research on industrial ecology as a driver for economic development in Puerto Rico, working closely with the Puerto Rico Industrial Development Corporation and the Luis Muñoz Marín Foundation. In addition, he helped develop an environmental sustainability assessment for the corporate headquarters and manufacturing facility of Hamilton Sundstrand in Windsor Locks, Connecticut.
Outside of work, Mr. Deschenes is the Chair of the Environmental Business Council’s Young Environmental Professionals Committee, and participates in a subgroup of entrepreneurs from the MIT Enterprise Forum to investigate renewable energy start-up opportunities.
Mr. Deschenes holds an MEM from Yale University and a BS in Forestry and Mathematics from The University of the South. Mr. Deschenes is certified by the U.S. Green Building Council as a LEED Accredited Professional.

Paul Lavallee Paul Lavallee, MBA
Venture Capital
USA East-Coast
Paul Lavallee brings more than 30 years of extensive experience both in the software business and in industry as a CIO and as a materials manager certified at the fellow level by APICS. Lavallee has served as a director on several boards and advisory committees of both pre-IPO and publicly traded companies, including ChannelWave (adquired by ClickCommerce), Eyretel (LSE: EYR, recently acquired by Witness Systems), MarketMax.com (acquired by SAS), JGI, WebDialogs, Nevum, WebMap, Salesnet and Parity Communication and MARC Global. He has engaged in consulting and full time projects with a number of software companies and has been part of the roadshow in 3 of his 5 IPO's (SSA, EMS, FirePond, PrimeResponse, Eyretel) as well as a number of M&A transactions (ASE, founded by Lavallee, acquisition by SSA, SSA acquisition of JGI and other channel partners, PrimeResponse acquisition by Chordiant, SNAP acquisition by Dunn & Bradstreet, ProjectCool.com acquisition by DevX.com.) Paul served as interim EVP with MARC Global and Salesnet and helped raise follow-on rounds at each by improving pipelines and sales execution. He was the Americas president at PrimeResponse (acquired by Chordiant - NASDAQ: CHRD) where the team he formed increased sales by more than 500% from the previous year's total performance facilitating a successful IPO. Paul has affiliations with: DPMA, MESA, APICS, Mass Venture Forum, Mass. SW Council, CEO & Entrepreneur Club, Brown Venture Forum, NAA. He holds an M.B.A. from Providence College and a B.S. in Business Administration from Roger Williams College.

Thomas Ward Thomas Ward
International Beverage & Food Markting
USA - East-Coast

 Mr. Ward is the founder and a principal of his marketing consulting firm. He is active with consulting clients of the firm, such as Campbell Soup, Kraft Foods and Nestlé Waters as well as with start-ups and ventures including Life-Force Laboratories and Al's Beverage.
Before starting his firm, Mr. Ward was a founding member and Vice President of Dove Consulting Group, now part of Hitachi Consulting. For many years, Mr. Ward served as the Managing Director of Dove's B&F practice. He worked on projects in 42 countries, with clients including Anheuser-Busch, Bass, Cadbury Schweppes, Molson Breweries, PepsiCo, Philip Morris, Procter & Gamble, and Quaker Oats.
Mr. Ward was one of the founders of the Pepsi-Cola International Management Institute (PCIMI), which developed industry-specific management software and systems for soft drink bottlers, distributors, brewers and other international beverage companies. He was also active in the development of a similar corporate education initiative for Cadbury Schweppes, the Cadbury Value Network. Mr. Ward started his career at another Boston-based consulting firm, Harbridge House, Inc., where he worked from 1976 to 1981. There he was a member of the policy consulting group and worked primarily for the U.S. government on the disposition and management of public lands, minerals and water resources.
Mr. Ward received his bachelor's degree from Harvard College in 1975 and a master's degree from the Harvard Graduate School of Arts & Sciences in 1976.

Anika Zitzow Anika Zitzow, M.Sc.
International Food Marketing
USA East Coast

Anika manages her own export promotion firm and advises European food companies with market research, market analysis and marketing consulting in entering the US marketplace and other international markets.
After graduating in Germany with an MSc. degree in agriculture, she worked for 6 years at CMA, Central Marketing Organization of the German Agricultural Industries. In the context of export promotion she managed seminars and events for companies of the German food and beverage industry and for German retailers and farmers. Furthermore Anika was involved in numerous projects as point-of-sale and trade shows in South America, North America and South-East Asia, where she provided liaisons between exporters, importers, retailers and consumers of German foods and beverages and where she was responsible for coordinating market research in various countries.
Anika speaks English and German and holds a masters degree in agricultural science from a German University.


Gregory Moore Gregory Moore
International Beverage & Food Markting
USA - East-Coast

 Mr. Moore is a founder and principal of a successful marketing consulting firm. Mr. Moore has over fifteen years of hands-on beverage consulting experience with a focus on market and channel expansion, commercial and innovation strategies and route-to-market programs primarily in Europe and the U.S. Previously, Mr. Moore was the Director of the Beverage and Food Group at Dove Consulting, now Hitachi Consulting.
Mr. Moore was the office manager and senior team member in San Francisco, CA and London, UK. Mr. Moore has led a number of successful projects to develop selling and distribution strategies and expand brands presence into impulse (e.g. C-Stores, bars, liquor, mom & pop), grocery, and club channels for leading beverage and impulse snack companies in the United Kingdom, France, Italy, Spain, Poland, Mexico, China, Japan and the United States. Sample Clients are: Campbell Soup, Molson, Coors, Nestle Waters, Diageo , Eastman Kodak.
Mr. Moore received a MBA from the Monterey Institute of International Studies and a B.S. from the University of California, San Diego.

Anja Bernier Anja Bernier
International Marketing Consulting
USA East-Coast

 Living in Boston since several years, Anja was born and brought up in Germany. She attended and graduated in "international business" at Dortmund College, Germany and at the Amsterdam School of Business (HES) in the Netherlands.
During her career Anja has worked in 5 different countries on 3 continents - USA, Germany, the Netherlands, Switzerland and Australia. She is fluent in German and English and also speaks some Dutch. Before becoming self-employed, Anja worked for important international food companies like KRAFT FOODS, DANONE and MUELLER-Group. In recent years Anja had held sole responsibility for establishing the US-Subsidiary of a large German consumer goods company. She is focused on consulting for entering of or expanding in the US marketplace and also is active in merger & acquisition.
Anja constantly holds lectures at leading US-business schools. She is a member of the German-American Business Council Boston, the American Marketing Association, and is an "Accredited Associate" of the Institute for Independent Business.

Raya Asfour Raya Asfour
International Beverage & Food Markting
USA - East-Coast

 Mrs. Asfour is a Senior Consultant with several years of beverage consulting experience working with PepsiCo International, Nestle Waters of North America, Molson Coors Brewing Company, and Silver Eagle Distributors. Previously she was a Consultant for Meirc Training and Consulting in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. She has also worked on the Consumer Insights Team at PepsiCo International and as a Senior Research Analyst of the Beverage and Food Group at Dove Consulting. Mrs. Asfour has worked on international market entry strategies, brand assessments and sales force training in the U.S., Europe and the Middle East. Mrs. Asfour received a MBA from the Jones School of Management of Rice University and a bachelor's degree in International Relations from Tufts University

Julian Taylor Julian Taylor
advertising - public relations - strategic marketing
USA East-Coast

 Julian and his team at JSC renders services to companies in Life Sciences, Technology, Business-to-Business, Coinsumer and Manufacturing. They know that if they would say "We understand your business" you wouldn't believe them, and rightly so. However, "we know that the most successful companies focus on their markets, rather than just on their products". When Proctor & Gamble, Microsoft and Mercedes Benz obtain even a half-percentage point of share-of-market, profitability substantially increases. That's because they dominate their market segments, and their long-range planning is designed to keep them there. We can help your company do the same. Before we create an advertisement, distribute a press release or design a web site, we need to understand where you are in your market, and why your customers buy from you. We ask the following questions:What do your customers want and need? What must be done to satisfy these wants and needs? What is the size of the market? What is the growth profile? Then we build a strategic plan, encompassing all the techniques available to you. We prioritize activities, so that timing, marketplace conditions and competitive positions are exploited to the maximum. Most importantly, we help you develop the most advantageous position in your markets. And you can take the results to the bank.

Eva Winkler Christian Donner, M.Sc.
Internet-Design & Consulting
USA East-Coast
Christian is a seasoned Information-Technology engineer and management consultant. During his 20 years of professional software development and technical management experience both in Europe and the US, he has successfully delivered projects for the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Standard & Poor's, Law.com, Sun Life Financial, Casinos Austria and Raiffeisen Bank. Among other firms, he rendered consulting services to Amtrak, American Honda Motors, fuelspot.com, IBM, Law.com and RobotUnits.
Combining two very different business models, he provides IT and software development services and also assists European high-tech companies with marketing, sales and public relations efforts in the US - or vice versa - generating symbiotic opportunities for all parties.
Christian also appeared as a public speaker at the International Actuate User's Conference 1999, the Websphere Boston User Group Meeting 1999 and the 27th Internationalization and Unicode Conference - 2005 - Real-World Challenges in a Multilingual and Multilocale Web CMS Project.
He studied Electrical Engineering in Vienna, Austria, and majored in Industrial Electronics and Control Engineering.

Betsy Harper Betsy Harper
Recruiting for Sales Managers and Sales Staff
USA East-Coast

Betsy's firm 'Sales and Marketing Search' provides contingency search services in the USA for sales and marketing positions from entry level to VP. If needed, we will also help you define the position required for your company, as well as write the job description to be used as a hiring document. We source qualified candidates from our own proprietary database and directly from companies. All candidates are interviewed at our offices in Beverly, Massachusetts. As part of the process we offer meeting scheduling within your company; recommendations and commentary; reference checking; offer presentations and package negotiations. From our first meeting to the day your new employee starts, we help you in all aspects of the hiring process.
We design compensation plans for the job required and candidate needed. Because we talk to hundreds of candidates weekly, we have the latest compensation data - what people are actually being paid for the job they are doing.
Betsy also has a professional affiliation with 'The MIT Enterprise Forum', a volunteer, non-profit organization based at MIT whose mission is to promote and strengthen the process of starting and growing innovative technology oriented companies. They provide services and programs that educate, inform and support the entrepreneurial community. Many Sales and Marketing Search clients are active members or have affiliations with MIT and the Enterprise Forum.

Dirk E. Mahling Dirk E. Mahling, Ph.D.
Strategic Services
USA East-Coast

With more than 12 years in Management and Consulting, Dr. Mahling is an experienced strategist for ventures in business and technology. He has built profitable organizations in an array of industries, e.g. Capital Goods, Banking, Insurance, Hi-Tech Manufacturing, Publishing and Software. He worked with A.T.Kearney, Chicago, IL and Düsseldorf, Germany, Ernst & Young, Dallas, TX and Primix, Watertown, MA. He holds several degrees from the UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS, and the CAROLO-WILHEMINA UNIVERSITY, Brunswick, Germany. He is an Adjunct Professor with the University of Pittsburgh. Dr. Mahling is German and speaks English, French Dutch and Russian.

Bernie Mieth Bernie Mieth
Strategic Alliances
USA East-Coast

With over 15 years in the United States, Mr. Mieth has extensive experience in international market and business development. He worked with companies such as HONEYWELL, Digital Equipment Corp. and EMC Corporation where he managed Alliances and Business Development with corporate partners. In the United States, Mr. Mieth gained experience in various manufacturing and processing industries, in telecommunication, automotive and electronics.

Martin Plass Dipl.Ing Martin Plass
Manufacturing Industries
USA East-Coast

Mr. Plass has been working for more then 10 years in the US for Machine Tool and Equipment manufacturers. As Production Planning Manager, Project Manager and VP Production & Operations and through his consulting engagements in small and midsize companies, Mr. Plass has developed an excellent knowledge of industrial operations. As a German trained Machine Tool Engineer with additional education from Harvard University in Business Management, he is an experienced international consultant for technical and organizational support of sales and after sales activities as well as project management, spare parts and service organization.

Mitja-Alexander Linss Mitja-Alexander Linss
Marketing Strategist
USA East-Cost

 As a senior-level, international marketing specialist, Mr. Linss has extensive experience in business-to-business technology fields, especially in the area of information technology and information security. Mr. Linss consults for corporations in the European-American business environment and currently manages an international market research project conducted by IDC, a leading global information technology analyst headquartered in Massachusetts. Additionally, Mr. Linss consulted for the Kerry-Edwards Campaign, managing European media relations and the campaign's overseas voter program. Prior to establishing his consulting services in the United States, Mr. Linss worked at RSA Security, a market leader in information security, in an international marketing capacity based in Europe, where he managed international marketing campaigns across several European countries. Prior to RSA, he became an experienced media relations specialist while working at a leading German public relations agency, and conducted in depth political research during his tenure at the German Embassy in Paris and the German Federal Parliament. Mr. Linss holds a Master of Science in political science and economics from 'Johannes Gutenberg University' in Mainz, Germany. He is fluent in German, English and French.

William O'Brien William O'Brien
American and German Attorney at Law
USA East-Coast

Mr. O'Brien began his legal studies at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich, Germany. After graduating from the University of Munich, in 1986 with the equivalent of a German law degree, attended the State University of New York at Buffalo where he received his J.D. in 1988. William E. O'Brien law office is dedicated to providing legal services to domestic and international companies. We provide a wide range of corporate law services, such as, support of contract negotiations, corporate governance and formation issues. Our law firm is committed to addressing your needs in a timely, competent and effective manner. In particular, his focus is on: Intellectual Property Law and Corporate Law, but we also assist with personnel planning, selection and termination; obtaining corporate visas and immigration matters; and litigation of business matters.

Tycho Stahl Tycho Stahl, JD
German American Attorney at Law
USA East-Coast

 Tycho is an experienced German-American attorney. He represents U.S., German and other foreign public and private companies and funds and other investors in corporate and transactional matters. His areas of expertise include: mergers and acquisitions; financial restructuring; private securities offerings; including IPO, venture and private equity transactions.
He advises in international market entry; public company counseling, representing public companies in securities law and Sarbanes-Oxley compliance; commercial and licensing transactions; counseling of startup, technology and emerging growth enterprises in legal and business strategy; and commercial lending.
He has published related articles and has also been a public speaker on panel events of Harvard Startups in Boston/MA as a business plan advisor at the 18th annual Harvard Business School Venture Capital Conference in Cambridge/MA at events by the MIT Enterprise Forum; as guest lecturer teaching class sessions on private equity and venture capital finance in finance courses at the Boston University Graduate School of Management in Boston/MA. Tycho received his Juris Doctor from Georgetown University Law Center, Washington/DC in 1992. In 1987, he received an A.B. in history, magna cum laude, from Harvard University, Cambridge/MA. Tycho was born in Germany and is fluent in English and German, he serves on the board of directors of the German-American Business Club of New England and he is on the Board of the Harvard Club of Georgia.

Karl Hormann Dr. Karl Hormann
US Patent Attorney
USA East-Coast

Karl Hormann is an independent U.S. Patent Attorney with worldwide connetions and more than 25 years of industrial experience in intellectual property. He advises Euroserve's clients on all aspects of intellectual property law, including technology transfers and licensing. He specializes in prosecuting patents, trademarks and copyrights of a German-speaking clientele before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Intellectual property being often more valuable than tangible property, and usually indispensable for purposes of accessing the North American market, Mr. Hormann's services are of great importance to Euroserve's clientele.

Manfred Wiegandt

Dr. Manfred H. Wiegandt
US immigration Attorney
USA East-Coast

 Dr. Manfred Wiegandt worked for the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation before coming to the United States and is a fully qualified German lawyer as well as an American attorney. He advises on all aspects of US Immigration and Naturalization Law, an area of utmost importance for non-US citizens. Attaining work authorization and permanent residence permission in the US (i.e."Green Card") or naturalizing in the US has now become very difficult without the help of a specialized attorney. Dr. Wiegandt is a member of the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA). He holds a degree in International Relations from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy and speaks German and English in addition to French and Spanish.
Howard L. Levine, Ph.D. BioTech Consulting
USA East-Coast

 Dr. Levine has over 25 years of experience in successful product companies and is founder of BioProcess Technology Consultants, Inc., the leading CMC consulting group for the biopharmaceutical industry. Prior to founding BioProcessTechnology Consultants, Dr. Levine was Vice President of Manufacturing Operations at Repligen Corporation. There he was responsible for all process development and manufacturing activities, including production of therapeutic proteins, monoclonal antibodies and recombinant Protein A. Dr. Levine was previously Director, Pilot Plant Operations at Xoma Corporation where he was responsible for the development and manufacture of monoclonal antibody products for clinical trial. He has also held positions of in process development and manufacturing at Genentech and Amgen. Throughout his career, Dr. Levine has assisted in the development of over 20 different biological products and the commercialization of 3 of these products. Dr. Levine is currently a member of the Editorial Advisory Boards of BioPharm Magazine, BioProcess International, and Bio/Pharmaceutical Outsourcing Report. He is also a member of the Advisory Boards of Acretia Inc., Nexbio, Inc., and AsepCo. He has also served on Advisory Board of the Boston Area Chapter of the International Society of Pharmaceutical Engineering (ISPE) and was chairperson of the Parenteral Drug Association's (PDA) Task Force on Chromatography Validation. Dr. Levine has been an invited lecturer on manufacturing strategy, downstream processing, and validation, and commercialization of biotechnology products and is co-editor of a directory of biologics contract manufacturers. Dr. Levine holds a Ph.D. in chemistry from the University of Chicago and completed a post-doctoral fellowship at Harvard University.

Arthur Arsenault Arthur Arsenault
Certified Public Accountant
USA East-Coast
Arthurs firm provides all professional services related to accounting, taxation, compilation, review, and auditing, compilation of financial records into meaningful GAAP-compliant financial statements, limited-scope review testing, and complete audit attestation. The scope of services comprises:
Bookkeeping: Full-charge of bookkeeping services, including general journal and subsidiary ledger maintenance, bank statement reconciliation, and receivables and payables tracking and analysis. Cash Flow & Budgeting Analysis, Financial Forecast and Projections. Financial Statements: Preparation of professional, GAAP-compliant financial statements.
Tax Services include:
Tax Planning: Continuous monitoring of federal, state, and local tax law changes to minimize current and future tax liabilities.
Tax Preparation: Professional preparation and filing of all federal, state, and local tax returns.
IRS and State/Local Representation: Complete representation services before the IRS as well as state and local taxing authorities. Experience in negotiating Offers in Compromise with the IRS. Arthurs firm also advises in Accounting Software Selection & Implementation and renders Consulting Services to improve business operations and boost efficiency,

Jörg Blechschmidt Dipl-Kfm Oliver Klink
International Relocation
USA East-Coast
For European companies that want to transfer personnel to the USA, or that need to relocate staff within the USA, Mr. Klink is an experienced advisor due to his years of US-experience. We can advise our clients in related matters and also assist in finding appartments, homes or commercial real estate for manufacturing, administration, sales or any other business purpose. In this field we collaborate with the largest US organization that has numerous subsidiaries in all US states. Mr. Klink holds an MBA Degree from a German University.


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Peter Beierling Peter Beierling
International Manufacturing und Technology Services
USA Midwest - Michigan

 Located in Michigan, Peter and his partners firms provide support for companies wishing to carry out international business. They offer a unique approach to introducing your product to a new market area. Offering "one stop shopping" - from market investigation all the way to running production during the initial years of the new subsidiary's existence. From commission-based relationships, all the way to equity involvement in your new subsidiary, they can tailor the program to meet your requirements.
His firm provides full "virtual" supplier capabilities by linking together leading companies in all fields of industry with a focus on manufacturing technology . Through the development of close working relationships with companies of related areas, they provide the capabilities of the traditional Tier 1 supplier, without the overhead and bureaucracy traditionally associated with larger organizations.From aluminum to stainless steel, from forgings to precision thin-wall tubes, from IT to engineering services, they provide the services and products required. From aluminum to stainless steel, from forgings to precision thin-wall tubes, from IT to engineering services, GBS provides the services and products required.
Their Asia division is a joint venture with a US-China Business Support firm, a support organization providing a single point contact for companies to do business between China and the US.
Peter holds a dregree in economics from the University of Paderbon, Germany and at the beginning worked for Krupp Stahlexport. After that he gained international experience through: 2 1/2 years stay in Mexico City: Work at the ILO (International Labor Organization) of the UN; 5 years running the commercial side of the family machine tool business, specialized in the world wide sales of machines and devices; 1 year regional sales manager for LEICO (formerly Leifeld) covering overall sales of metal forming machinery in the Middle and Far East, Australia and the People's Republic of China; 5 years managing the subsidiary of LEICO in the US including the relocation from CA to MI - annual sales went from 3 to 18 Mill $ representing 45 - 50 % of the overall company sales; 2 years teaching and training adults in international business. Peter is fluent in German, English, Spanish and speaks basic French.


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Robert Rieder Robert Rieder,CPA International Accounting & Taxation USA - West Coast

 Mr. Rieder, President and CEO of his firm, leads a dynamic team of finance and accounting professionals. His European origin and fluency in English, German and French is an added benefit in helping international clients who want to establish a business base in the US. Robert gained his financial expertise during his work with a large international accounting firm and by several years in his role as a Chief Operating Officer of a Biotech company.
Esther Sum Rieder is a managing partner of the company and her Hong Kong roots and US education provide further international edge to Rieder & Associate’s service offerings. Her knowledge and expertise in insurance, small business loan services and fluency in both Cantonese and Mandarin enables us to help clients from Asia effectively.
His firm offers services in Book-keeping & Accounting Services, Audit Preparation Services, Interim CFO/Controller Services, Budgeting Services, Tax Services, Personal Finance and Notarization Services
His team can set up the entire business infrastructure from accounting/administration to HR and operations including, shipping/receiving/inventory for start-ups, serving as an interim back office and training of employees when start-ups are ready with their own back office.
Robert had attended HWV Olten, Switerzerland, he is a member of the Swiss-American Chamber of Commerce and speaks German, English and French. /font>
Achim Hoelzle, Esq. Achim Hoelzle, Esq.
German-American Business Lawyer
USA West-Coast

 Achim is a business lawyer qualified to practice in California and Germany. He provides European and US companies with corporate law services, such as drafting and negotiation of contracts for marketing and distribution, licensing, merger & acquisition, company formation and financing, management and staff personnel and related issues. He also has extensive experience in representing start-up companies in the IT and biotech arena in California and Germany. Throughout his career Achim has participated in venture capital investment transactions valued in excess of $300 million. His clientes greatly benefit from his vast network of worldwide contacts in the venture capital and private equity industry. Achim obtained his law degree at the university of Freiburg/Germany and was a visiting scholar at the University of California.

Dr. Matthias Steiert Dr. Matthias Steiert,
Biomedical Scientist
USA West-Coast

 Matthias is a biomedical scientist with extensive international experience in both, global pharmaceutical companies and start-up biotechnology enterprises He has a track record of raising research funds, is the co-founder of the European Network for Antimicrobial Resistance and Epidemiology (ENARE), is a specialist in biomedical applications of nanotechnology and and has an extensive list of publications in infectious diseases and cancer research. During the past 10 years he worked for Alnis BioSciences (CA), GlaxoSmithKline (Italy), and national and international organizations. During this time, Matthias built a network of worldwide contacts. Clients working with Matthias will benefit from his collaborative networks in the USA, Germany, Switzerland, Holland, Italy, Egypt, Dubai (United Arab Emirates), and China. Matthias was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of California at Berkeley. He obtained his degree in Biology at the University of Freiburg/Germany and holds a Ph.D. in biochemistry from the University of Basel/Switzerland.

Dagmar Dolatschko Dagmar Dolatschko
Translations, Localizations and more
USA West-Coast

Dagmar Dolatschko is the founder and president of her own international translation agency offering translation services for over 50 languages. Her Translators have both an advanced educational background in translation and a practical background related to the subject area. They are native speakers, many of them located in the respective countries, and are certified by reputable institutions overseas. Peritus' approach reaches far beyond the translation of words - taking a holistic look at internationalization: This includes a corporate or product name analysis service, the cultural adaptation of icons, images, and colors to make sure they are not offensive or misunderstood in another culture. In the fall of '97 she held a workshop on "Multilingual Web-Sites, Translation & Cultural Adaptation" in Chicago for the International Quality & Productivity Center. Mrs. Dolatschko has obtained her degree as translator/intepreter in Munich, Germany, and also holds an MBA-degree from College of Notre Dame, CA. For over 10 years, she has held a variety of international positions in import, export, and world-wide marketing management, including International Marketing Manager at MicroAge Computer Centers, Arizona (now a $5 billion Company). Furthermore, She served as president of the German American Chamber of Commerce in Arizona for two years. She co-founded the German-American Council for Business, Inc., and served as the organization's president for three years.

Peter Matthies Peter Matthies
Venture Capital
USA West-Coast
Peter has been involved in international technology and finance business for over 15 years. Peter started his career at Andersen Consulting in Germany. He later co-founded a systems integration and IT-consulting company, where he lead strategic IT and Internet projects for German corporations. After selling his share, Peter moved to California and worked as an IT analyst and US-correspondent. He founded a business accelerator in the Silicon Valley focusing on financing and growing German and American technology start-ups. Peter then became a Principal in the technology team for one of the world's leading Private Equity and Venture Capital firms, Apax Partners & Co, and for b-business partners, a leading pan-European VC firm. Peter served as president of the German Venture Capital Club and helped promote a corporate governance and financing environment based on integrity and mutual benefit. In addition to his professional work, Peter has held many speaking and panel engagements throughout Europe and the US. His views and approaches, particularly in periods of transition and distress, inspired businesses and individuals to embrace change. Peter published 2 books and over 100 articles on business, finance, innovative work environments, martial arts, technology and spirituality

Klaus Schmidt Klaus Schmidt, M.Sc.
Information Technology and Telecommunications Strategy
USA West-Coast
Klaus Schmidt offers in depth knowledge of the software and telecommunications industry gained in many executive positions for market leading companies in Europe and the US. As CEO of TeVeo, a Silicon Valley based Internet video company, Klaus was responsible for the implementation of new peer-to-peer video technology. He grew the company to become the # 1 video portal of the U.S. When he was general manager of Softbank Expos in Munich, a subsidiary of Softbank Japan, he was responsible for the success of high-tech trade shows in Germany including "Networld-Interop" and "Seybold Seminars". As Marketing Director for Lotus Development, he shaped sales strategies and market introductions for new and current products. Klaus Schmidt served as business architect and marketing evangelist at various start-up companies. He has strong analytical competence and strategic experience in the area of market penetration and development of new, competitive concepts. Klaus Schmidt holds a Master's Degree in Computer Science (Diplom-Informatiker) and a B.S. In Physics.

Dr. Bernard Putz Dr. Bernard Putz,
Change Management
USA West-Coast

 For almost 20 years, he has helped create changes that have directly increased profits, productivity, and employee and customer satisfaction. Holding an M.B.A. and a doctorate in Organizational Psychology, Bernhard is a corporate change maker who works with executives and their teams to implement leadership practices necessary for operational excellence and superior execution. In addition to consulting for Next Level Leadership, Bernard has lectured widely on organizational and leadership issues, and is the author of "Designing Cross-Functional Business Processes and Business Beyond Base Camp: A Tale for Business Leaders". Anyone knows that only those companies able to outperform their competitors will survive. Only a professionally designed and implemented alignment to change will achieve a successful positioning for the future.

Mathew Kundinger Matthew Kundinger
German-American Lawyer - Technical Consultant
USA West-Coast

 Mathew is an Attorney, an Engineer, an Author and a Public Speaker. Based upon a very broad educational background and extensive work experience both in the U.S. and Europe, he offers his U.S. clients as well as German speaking clients in Germany, Austria and Switzerland a variety of highly specialized professional services. His work is concentrated on business issues, contracts, inheritance matters and international law in general as it relates to German speaking countries, handling about everything for which a business person needs an attorney.
He also provides specialized services to other attorneys regarding translation, evaluation and interpretation of legal or technical texts written in German and evaluations of other German language papers. His legal/technical consulting firm puts the final finish and professional polish on operating manuals, repair and maintenance manuals, brochures and other documentation for machinery, equipment, consumer products and more. His main goal is to assist companies in German speaking countries by advising them on product liability issues and to review and revise their technical documentation to minimize their exposure to expensive product liability law suits. Or as they would say: "Verminderung des Produkthaftungsrisikos in den USA".
One aspect of all this is to constantly remind and educate his customers, especially their engineers and the entire technical team, that they have to shoot for "fool proof" products. If you manufacture any product in Germany, Austria and Switzerland, especially machinery, production lines, appliances or any products that are even remotely dangerous, and want to sell them in the U.S., you MUST have your supporting documentation reviewed by someone who has experience with these matters. Ideally this should be done by an attorney, an engineer and someone who is a great writer, so that in the end everything is easy to understand. It is very hard to find all of these qualifications in one person, but you found them here.


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Following: Canada
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Hubertus Liebrecht Hubertus Liebrecht
German Law in Canada and USA
CANADA and GERMANY
Toronto,Vancouver, Muenich

 Built on over fifteen years of experiene in the handling of German-Canadian and German-American legal and tax issues, Mr. Liebrecht and his colleagues are rendering first class legal services to businesses and individuals in company-law, tax-law.
The selection of the appropriate legal setup for an intended purpose is of utmost importance. Therefore it is recommended to contact them early on, preferably during the start-up phase. >br> His firm will also assist clients with all questions related to the sale of a company, the acquisition of shares, and the establishment of successor companies, with special consideration of tax issues.
Their proximity to the US border allows to also assist American clients who are using their services since many years in all regions of the United States.


Ian Anderson Ian Anderson
International consulting for life-science based industries
CANADA

 With a team of seasoned hands-on experts, the firm’s services spans a wide cross-section of technology-based industries, market niches and specializations. Mr. Anderson has seen just about any challenge that is out there, and knows how to get to the core problems and issues quickly.
The firm’s industry knowledge and technical expertise is considerable and includes proven performance working with companies and industry leaders in biotechnology and other life science companies, medical technology, chemistry-based products and innovation, informatics and scientific database businesses and many other advanced technology and crossover.
The main focus is set on helping business founders, their investors and boards of directors in science-based industries reach their goals - quickly, efficiently and effectively.
As expert problem solver and turnaround specialist Mr. Anderson understands the opportunities and challenges faced by new and "go-go" growth companies, and equally with more established, larger companies seeking new markets and business opportunities for sustainable growth and profitability.
The areas of expertise include: Support and direction to attract capital, customers or developing new, innovative sustainable business models for long-term growth potential. Development - nationally and internationally – of innovative new technology applications in unfamiliar or untested marketplaces. Support of equity investors in new ventures looking for expertise and assistance to make more strategic investment decisions while more effectively managing risk.



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Olaf Kretzschmar align=LEFT border= Olaf Kretzschmar
Rechtsanwalt
DEUTSCHLAND

 Mr. Kretzschmar specializes in international brand law, copyright and media law and offers legal support in all other sectors of business law as well.
In case of expanding your business in Europe, particularily Germany, he is an efficient partner for securing your firm’s name, brands, logos, copyrights, patents etcera which is important to accomplish before commencing actual operations.
For Germany intellectual property can be registered in Munich, Germany, for Europe at “HABM” (Office for Harmonization in the Internal Market) in Alicante, Spain, or globally in Geneva, Switzerland, at “WIPO” (Intellectual Property Organization), depending on the nature of a clients IP-strategy.
He furthermore advices clients in design and negotiation of contracts as well as in formation and internet-law issues. Additional information can be found on his website at www.ipservice-international.com.
Besides Germany & Europe, Mr. Kretzschmar's network also offers legal services in Australia and China, performed by his dependable and efficient colleagues in those countries.

Udo Granops Udo Granops, MBA
Management Consulting
GERMANY - Berlin

 Mr. Granops and his team of experts are specializing in the areas of international commercial real-estate, location & site scouting, economic development, international business development, multi-language investor-service, project incubation, corporate finance, risk-management and related areas.
He gained his experience during five years with international banks, working in merger & acquisition, funds & pensions, real estate investment, communal & municipal treasury consulting, trade & sale of ForEx, IRD, fixed income, debt capital markets, structured products, financial engineering of derivative instruments, structured bonds & loans. Furthermore he is a founder, partner and CEO of a laser technology company.
Mr. Granops attended a renowned German university and focussed on financial engineering, capital markets, corporate finance & industrial management.
He speaks German, English, Polish and has a working knowledge of French.

Wilfried Scholz Wilfried Scholz
International Management Consulting – Germany / China
GERMANY

 Wilfried Scholz and his team, including a chinese national with a degree in German language & culture, advises German and Chinese enterprises and start-ups in business-planning, marketing, collaboration and human resources issues.
In seminars and direct personal consulting, his and his associate’s know-how are contributing to profitable business expansion for his clients in both countries. For entering the chinese marketplace, his firm offers intercultural training as well as business-trips to China.
He informs about chinese infrastructure projects, planned construction projects, current developments within China’s market structure, privat and official tenders, purchasing and collaboration opportunities etc. His firm furthermore supports clients in obtaining government subsidies for China-related business ventures which can cover up to 70% of related funding requirements.
Regarding China-related ventures, his firm has sucessfully rendered services for an architectural collaboration, a trade-collaboration, a wind energy park, a biogas-plant, a German-Chinese educational institute, a German–Chinese import-/export-enterprise etc.

Betsy Harper Sebastian Grillo
International Web-Design & Marketing
GERMANY

 Mr. Grillo and his team of Internet-Experts in Germany and in the USA renders competent and comprehensive advisory services and designs otpimized business-models for marketing by digital era methods. His experts offer a broad range of methods and instruments and thus are enabled to deliver an optimized mix of single solutions within a marketing-model package.The scope of his teams services is comprised of but not limited to Web Design, Intranet/Extranet Platforms, Content Management Sustems, E-Mail Marketing, Search-Engine Optimization and Video-Portals.
With his network in Europe and the USA he offers first-class international support for Market Entry and Market Penetration in those countries by means of his own Web Marketing and eMail-Marketing methods.
Furthermore in collaboration with other partners of Euroserve’s network his team also offers support for small and midsize companies in international marketing by finding isales partners, design of marketing collabtorations, trade-how support, organization of international business trips and more.
Mr. Grillo speaks German, English and Russian, has an education in wholesale and international trade and is a member of Marketing Club Germany.

Winfried Braun Winfried Braun
Management and Start-Up Consulting
GERMANY – Wuerzburg

 Since 1994 Winfried Braun adivises small & mid-size business enterprises and start-ups from commerce, industry and service-sectors. He gained his expertise during years of work as a business consultant and speaker for the Chamber of Commerce, for the Technology and Business Start-Up Center and for the Start-Up Service-Network of his home-town area.
Based on his work for those institutions, Winfried has valuable connections to official business-support & funding organizations as well as to banks and business associations in his area.
Winfried has extensive experience in consulting, in start-ups, take-overs and in redeveloping unprofitable enterprises. He was involved in establishing the following business support operations in his area: First patent information and research office, and in the development and implementation of an Internet-Portal for start-ups and take-overs. Winfried is collaborating with seasoned practitioners from management consulting, legal and taxation services.
After his education as an Insurance specialist, Winfried studied Business-Organization & Administration and obtained his degree with an ward as “best of class” from Bavaria’s state government. Winfried speaks German and English.


Klaus Oestreicher Klaus Oestreicher, MA
International Marketing Strategies
GERMANY

 Based on more than 25 years of experience, his clients find competent advice and support in all fields of international strategic marketing.
He and his parters in sevral other Europeaa countries support companies both in long-term Strategic Communications and marketing and in specific projects (e.g. adjacencies, expansions, new market entries, etc.).
Committed to strategic communication, he supports a client’s dissemination through communicating the high inherent values corporations offer to their customers. By providing the strategy, tactics, tools and channels, he helps Clients and their customers achieve two important end results – mutually profitable relationships and trust. These intangible assets lead to ongoing, long-term profitability as business grows.
With communications managed by his firm, reputation is enhanced, loyalty is generated, share of Wallet is increased, customer lifetime value is stimulated. His workidentifies measurable and controllable values. For each client, he identifies and communicates inherent core values, a process that improves performance in the eyes of stakeholders.
Klausattented universities in England and France. H speaks German, English, French and Spanish.

Reynier Funke Reynier Funke, M.Sc. elec, eng.
Management Consulting
GERMANY – Munich area

 Reynier is an experienced business planner, developer and strategist. Based on years of work for companies from many types of industry, which use information technology and telelcommunication, Reynier can draw from a very broad know-how base. After years of experience in Europe and the USA, e.g. as Director of Planning and Strategy at HEWLETT-PACKARD, and as Advanced Technoloy Manager & Director of Global Practices Knowledge Management at COMPAQ he advises companies in asserting innovative solutions for Marketing and Technology.
Reynier led cross-divisional and cross-functional teams successfully to common goals. He delivers hands-on experience with product introductions, partnerships and alliances, large bids & proposals as well as complex post-acquisition issues and the change management associated with the implementation of new business models.
Reynier attended INSEAD University, France, and Technical University of Delft, Netherlands.

Christian Gaede Christian Gaede, MBA
International Management Consulting
GERMANY - Munich

 Christian has years of experience in management consulting, particularily in automotive, consumer goods, logistic services, mechanical engineering/equipment construction and medical technology. He speaks English and holds an MBA degree from the University of Marburg, Germany.
His experience was developed by working for companies in mechanical engineering/equipment construction, in banking, audit and accounting. After having worked as a senior consultant for serveral management consulting companies, he started his own firm.
His areas of expertise comprise: Management strategies, marketing, sales & CRM, business re-engineering, administration and logistics, budgeting, turn-around management und continuous business development.
Among various other tasks, Christian has consulted on: Re-engineering of sales for a manufacturor of medical devices. Auditing of logistics organization & processes for a consumer goods manufacturer. Analysis of sales processes and functions for a cleaning machines manufacturer. Auditing of customer relations & achievement processes for an international automotive dealership. Design of a multinational 'B to B to C'-CRM management concept for a consumer goods manufacturer. Comprehensive auditing of a public movie marketing company - including risk management, complete company re-design and guidance during the implementation of an ERP-system. Design of a top-client lead generating concept for a mail, express and logistics services company. Auditing and complete re-organization of sales, administration, engineering, shop-control and quality management for a machinery manufacturer.

Uwe Schwermann Uwe Schwermann
HighTechConsulting
MScEE, MBA in International Management
GERMANY - Munich

 Uwe advises companies and start-ups in strategy, marketing and business development; client and performance-systems, market entry, globalization, collaboration and technology marketing.
He supports in content-oriented and processual issues for new business models and business planning by generating ideas, validations, analysises and estimates.
In technology management, he offers analysis and optimization of technology portfolios; procurement, specification of requirements and tendering of complex systems; efficiency and risk analysis of new technologies; organizing change management in regard with the implementation of new IT solutions; estimates and modeling of process expense (Activity based Costing); interim magagement.
Uwe gained experience as a sales manager for telecommunications systems and solutions, additional years as Key Account Manager, Head of Sales and Director Business Development at different companies in the Telco and IT industry, where he also directed projects like e-commerce platforms, market entry into foreign countries, strategic reorientation, restructuring of customer service offering, R&D and Marketing Cooperations.
Uwe Studied Electrical Engineering with thesis projects in Spain and USA and speaks German, English and Spanish.

Dr. Leonard Fopp Dr. Leonhard Fopp
Management Consulting

SWITZERLAND - Zurich


 Leonhard is the specialist and trusted advisor of family businesses for corporate development and succession planning. His clients are German and Swiss mid-sized companies.
Before he worked for several years for WINTERTHUR, a large Swiss insurance company, during most recent years in a management position. In a spin-off, he later became one of the co-founders and partners of SCG St. Gallen Consulting Group, whose clients were public companies and large privately owned enterprises. After 16 years and before being sold to a US conglomerate, SCG had more than 80 employees and 5 offices located in Switzerland and Germany. He then worked as a senior partner for Mercer Management Consulting, which focused on large international public companies.
Leonhard is familiar with working in intercultural environments and has consulted on more than 100 change management projects. He has developed capabilities in corporate governance by serving as a board member for mid-size privately owned enterprises.
In 2003 he established his own consulting firm. Leonhard obtained his docorate at the University of St Gallen, Switzerland. He is married to a Briton for more than 35 years and renders his services in English, French and German.

Tomas Prachensky Tomas Prachensky
Business Lawyer
SWITZERLAND – Zurich

 Mr. Prachensky, entitled to represent clients in all parts of Switzerland, is an attorney-at-law at a renowned Zurich law firm focussing on corporate law and related issues. Besides his legal advisory expertise Tomas additionally has years of experience in litigation, insurance and auditing. He mainly works in the areas of business law. Due to his broad experience in various legal areas he can render comprehensive personal services to his clients. In cases involving highly specialized and/or international issues he can use the expertise of his own extensive contacts network.
For enterprises or start-ups, considering to benefit from the highly advantageous taxation system of Switzerland, he offers all legal and business related services: Foundation of company, bookkeeping, taxation, restructuring, M&A and related other activities of any kind. Mr. Prachensky is a member of both the Swiss and the European attorney's association and a member of the Swiss-Czech Chamber of Commerce. He received his law degree from University of Zurich in 1992 and completed his bar exam in 1996. He speaks German, English, French and Czech.

Sabiene Muench Sabiene Muench
Innovative B2B-marketing & sales support
for sophisticated products & services
GERMANY - Nurnberg Area

 Since 2000, Sabiene and her firm renders innovative services for marketing products and services that require explanatory activities. Among other industries, their focus is set on automotive, pharma, consumer goods, chemicals, logistics, financial services and IT. They closely work with top level management, with departmental heads of marketing, sales, IT, manufacturing and processing, controlling etc. of enterprises upwards of 1,000 employees.
In their work they carefully interconnetc sales, marketing and strategy. By means of their basic know-how, independent from type of industry, they are capable of designing comprehensively integrated solutions with new views for new ways of action. Furthermoe, a large potential of valuable business contacts can be provided, securing competent and goal-oriented service.
Besides brokerage of valuable and exclusive business contacts for intercompany cooperations, the firm also offers various types of active collaboration in sales and/or marketing; from the design of task-oriented networking models up to a special strategy.
By building an intercompany-cooperation, you can strongly benefit by reducing expense and increasing synergy when entering new markets. They are being designed mostly between companies with products / services that complement or supplement each other, with different and non-competing products for a certain market, with competing or similar products for different markets and with products related to some other criteria.

Jan Kegelberg Jan Kegelberg
Management Consulting
GERMANY – Munich

 Jan, who holds an MBA-degree from the Unversity of Michigan, is a partner and the managing director of his Munich-based management consulting firm which focusses on developing strategies for increasing enterprise value and for securing durability of entrepreneural success. He and his partners have developed know-how and methods that reach beyond classic management consulting. Using their optimization methods, they generate value advantage, independent from type of industry.
Bevor starting his own consulting firm, Jan worked for mid-size multinational companies in the areas of logistics, manufacturing, operations and was a VP of a public German corporation where he was responsible for strategy, operation and management of an international logistics system. This system had obtained the ‘Logistics Citation’ from the German government.
As a consultant with 'The Boston Consulting Group' in Duesseldorf, Germany, Jan’s project focus was set on strategic and e-Commerce issues for industrial goods and financial services.
Prior to his MBA he worked as export manager for a German company where he had been responsible for planning and implementing the firms marketing and sales-network in Eastern Europe.

Erdem Karademir Erdem Karademir
International business development
GERMANY - Karlsruhe

 Erden and his firm renders professional advice and support in planning and implementing business development in foreign markets.
Core competences are in international marketing & distribution, outsourcing, merger & acquisition, foundation of company and basically in international business strategy. Geographic targets are the countries of the Near East, Turkey, Tunesia, Egypt and other north-african nations.
His firm is experienced in finding clients, in customer relationship management and in marketing. Targeting small and medium-size eenterprises wanting to enter foreign markets, he offers professional marketing in selected countries, search for promising business partners, assistance in coping with intercultural barriers; always assuring that clients recognize critical issues from the beginning.
Part of the firm’s staff have a background in industrial enginieering and information technology, thus enabling to deliver highly synergic consulting by interconnecting business, technology and data processing issues.
Erdem is turkish and studied industrial enginieering at University of Karlsruhe, Germany. His focus was set on political economics, international currency systems, marketing and asessment. He assisted in various projects of international project management and multi-project management. He furthermore gained experience by working for an aviations firm, several engineering firms from the avionics and space sector and for information technology firms.

Joerg 'George' Sperling Joerg “George” Sperling
International Business Development
for broadband and related industries & products

GERMANY - Munich

 As founder and CEO of his Munich based consulting firm with satellite offices in Palo Alto, San Francisco and Tel Aviv, Goerge and his team assist late stage companies in all aspects of their European business development. Their focus is Europe's broadband industry but they have also had successfully completed assignments in related industries.
If a company produces semiconductor components, systems, software or offers services to customers in the broadband industry they open doors for their clients at Europe's leading handset manufacturers, system manufacturers and also at Europe's leading wireless and wire line carriers.
Recently his firm had also expanded into the enterprise market and started to assist companies selling products and services to Europe's leading top 500 corporations. They have close relationships with the C-level management as well as with the engineering and purchasing management at target customers and will utilize those to generate business for ther clients in Europe. “We get you customers but also OEM sales and distribution partners. "We can either be "your" office in Europe and function as such or assist your people ‘on the ground’ in Europe and complement their skills with our networks”.
We have also successfully built and established companies in Silicon Valley and offer to European clients to establish their local presence there. We assist in legal setup, finding office space, people and the right business partners. His firm also has teamed up with other consulting firms who complement their European network. Together with those they can also assist in the Middle East, the US and in Asia with clients business efforts.
The firm has a very broad network in the private equity community. On behalf of their clients they can utilize this network to assist with raising new capital. Besides raising money they also help their clients explore exit, merger and acquisition opportunities on a global basis. Their dedicated M&A desk assists during the entire M&A process from first contact to closing of the deal.

Bernd Bodmer Bernd Bodmer
International Business Development
GERMANY - Balingen

 Focused on setting up business in Europe for small and mid-size foreign companies, Bernd and his partners are experienced professionals for establishing sales channels through which new products can be introduced with relative ease. In simple terms, they reduce clients operational expenses and help them achieve success in a much shorter time while mitigating their company’s risk. Since Bernd’s network collaborates with lawyers and certified tax advisers, all of this is done with absolute legal security – most often with advantages regarding taxation.>br> Too often foreign companies move unsupported into markets which function according to different rules. Gaining access to market can take months, even years, if they don't have the contacts or knowledge in the local market. His clients gain the unique advantage of having their products sold in their own name by a group of experienced, multilingual, local professionals, without the risk and expensive overhead costs of having to set up a European subsidiary operation. Clients can start their local subsidiary as soon as they have their first return on investment. From that point on, we have the resources to support you, from founding your own company to searching for and hiring the right team.
His firm employs a direct sales force that sells to top distributors and retailers on behalf of our clients. Their channel sales team is carefully managed and directed by experienced senior managers. In addition, his sales staff is supported in every way by administration and support services. His sales team meets with buyers face to face, creates awareness among buyers and establishes his clients' brands in the channel.
Bernd’s network consists of a highly motivated team of experienced consultants from various functional and industrial areas. All consultants are experienced practitioners, which guarantees professional support; and they are always specialists in their area of expertise: Sales, marketing, localization, advertising, accounting, taxation, financing and legal.

Vincent O'Neill Vincent O'Neill, PhL, DipEd, STL
International Management Coach
GERMANY - Munich

 Vincent is an experienced professional in consulting management and staff on integration of business and people systems in the course of international business developments such as takeovers, joint ventures, reorganizations, outsourcing, mergers, change projects.
His special focus is set on leadership & organizational development together with coaching, and in addition intercultural training, conflict management, negotiation and presentation skills.
Among other companies and organizations, he worked for Siemens Automobiltechnik, Siemens Power Generation, Siemens Business Services, Fujitsu Siemens Computers, Zeiss-Gruppe , Siemens VDO Automotive. He worked in India, France, Romania, Belgium, Italy and other countries.
Typical assignments included work in Change Management, Moderation of International Management Meetings, development of a new culture for a European-Japanese Joint Venture and more.
Having studied in Rome, London and Munich, Vincent obtained degrees in theology, psychology and in education. He is fluent in English and German, speaks reasonably Italian, and some Turkish, French, Spanish.


Alexander Baron von Engelhardt Alexander Baron von Engelhardt
German-American Business & Immigration Lawyer
GERMANY - Berlin
Alexander was born in New York City, USA and later relocated to Germany where he studied law at the German Universities of Marburg and Goettingen. Holding both a German and the American citizenship, he speaks both languages fluently and has a full understanding of transatlantic business cultures. His areas of expertise cover international business and corporate law, immigration law, tax law and civil law. He consults English speaking foreigners on related topics, including formation of company, design of contracts, state subsidies for start-ups, office registration, tax returns and bookkeeping, advise on work permits and citizenship and civil law issues. Furthermore, his work includes the representation of clients in court. Having first hand intercultural experiences, he is familiar with the problems a foreigner might have and how to cope with it. Alexander also works as a legal columnist, among others for www.justLanded.com.

Dr. Hans-Ulrich Wandel Dr. Hans-Ulrich Wandel
Management Consulting
GERMANY - Hamburg
Hans-Ulrich and his partners are consultants with a strong market focus. They combine financial with engineering expertise on practical solutions for entrepreneurs. Tailor-made solutions are being offered in: mergers & acquisitions, analyses and evaluation of technology & patents and market launch strategies. They also support medium-sized companies in business development, growth financing and company valuation and help to find suitable partners for strategic alliances and sales partnerships. Hands-on personal support for negotiations with investors is a further service. Project expertise exists in the following industries: Pharmaceutical Industry - Biotechnology - Medical Equipment Industry, Wholesale - Exports - Production - Logistics. Europe is their focus in providing access to markets outside Germany. They have project experience in Austria/Switzerland, France, Spain, Greece, Belgium and Scandinavia. Working languages are German, English, French and Spanish. Dr. Wandel's membership in the American Chamber of Commerce in Germany stands for their working relationships with the U.S. market

Henning Schroeder Henning Schroder
Business Lawyer
GERMANY - Hannover
Hennings law firm, whose associates / partners speak German, English, French and Bulgaric, is engaged in a diversified practice of business law oriented toward anticipating and solving client's issues in a creative and timely fashion. His firm represents a broad variety of mainly medium sized business clients in transactional matters such as mergers and acquisitions as well as all day-to-day legal affairs like labor law disputes or contracts. Tax advise and management consulting services are being rendered in collaboration with local network partners. International focus is mainly on overseas operations in the USA and Brazil, where his firm has established cooperations with local law firms. Henning’s firm represents clients from industries like automotive, mechanical engineering, plant construction, publishing & printing, wholesale & retail and information technology and others.
Furthermore, Henning’s firm collaborates closely with several associations, e.g. ‘Pro Hannover Region’, a non-profi organization representing 300 local companies and focusing on business development for the Hannover region.

Herma Meyenburg Herma Meyenburg, M.Sc.
Information Technology Marketing
GERMANY - Munich
After the successful completion of her studies in electrical engineering, with an emphasis on communications engineering and data systems technology at one of the Munich universities in 1987, she worked for nearly four years for a large Munich software house as a development engineer and project manager. In 1991 she changed to sales and worked nationally in the area of »Sales Support«, and from 1993 in the area of »International Product Marketing and Sales Support«. In 1994 she was given the responsibility of establishing the department »Marketing Germany« in order to reflect the importance of the company's German revenue share of 45%. From 1994 until 1996, parallel to her professional activities, she studied Marketing at a well-known Munich private academy. She achieved the national best grades and was awarded the »Master Prize« of the Bavarian State government. In 1996 she founded the »Meyenburg Managementberatung« (Meyenburg Management Consulting). The Meyenburg Managementberatung offers a range of consulting and other services to meet all the strategic and operational marketing needs of customers in the IT and Internet industries. The customer base comprises mainly German companies and German subsidiaries of foreign compa­nies from the IT industries, as well as firms from a variety of industries, for example well-known publishing houses, market research firms etc.

Benjamin Ditzen Benjamin Ditzen
International Recruiting
GERMANY - Berlin & Bonn

 Benjamin and his team have extensive international and intercultural recruiting experience. Their focus is set on recruiting international candidates.
Examples of recruiting projects are: U.S.-American Trainees as Sales Engineers, a Chinese Head of Manufacturing, Polish SAP-Consultants, a U.S-American General Manager, a Chinese Vice Director of Customer Support, a Visual Basic / .Net software engineer from Romania, a U.S.-American HR Director, Consultants in Energy Trading from Russia etc.
Core methods employed include e-recruiting and internet posting on special niche websites worldwide, membership in many international networks, intense exchange with more than 300 universities in various countries, his firm's website, frequented by around 20.000 job seekers monthly, and a network of 2.000 plus international candidates in their own database. In addition to recruiting, a broad range of services related to international and intercultural HR management are being offered. Industries served are in engineering, automotive, consulting, medical technologies, IT, pharma, food and international trade. Since methods of identifying candidates are up to 95% based on cost-efficient internet recruiting he achieves a high degree of success at very competive rates.

Christa Holzenkamp Christa Holzenkamp
Marketing Consulting
GERMANY - Cologne

 Christa advises and supports clients in market entry, development of strategic sales partnerships and all related business transactions - always under consideration of available resources: people, budget and time. One of her specialities is the development of innovative product and marketing ideas, combined with a strong focus on practical feasibility. She has comprehensive experience from her work with world-class companies like Mercedes-Benz Technologies, SER Technology, T-Mobile and others, where she was responsible for product portfolio management, development of product marketing, implementation of relationship-management between German and American partners, design and implementation of a worldwide intranet and a web-shop, development of a portal based on mobile data transmission etc. Furthermore, she is experienced in the transformation of business processes into new organizations after bankruptcy, M&A and re-organization.
Christa has practical know-how in information retrieval and classification, knowledge management, online shops, intranets / portals, management applications for systems, nets, security (SNMP, CMIP), office communication systems, networks (GSM, UMTS, GPRS, WAP, SS7, TCP/IP) and more.
She also has authored articles, e.g.: AIIM Industry White Paper on Records, Document and Enterprise Content Management for the Public Sector: "Capture, Indexing & Auto-Categorization" Intelligent Methods for the acquisition and retrieval of information stored in digital archives. 2002 ( ISBN 3-936534-01-2). Furthermore Christa works as a public speaker in conferences on topics like network marketing, online sales, desktop management, software distribution, systems management, intelligent search methods, held at Euroforum, CeBIT and other events. She attended the universities for applied sciences in Bremen and Kiel, both in Germany.

Roland Hensel Roland Hensel, MBA
Change Management
GERMANY - Stuttgart

 With more than 20 years in marketing and management consulting, Roland and his team successfully serves mid-size enterprises in a broad range of change management issues. Clients are being coached in designing, supervising and controlling the change management process. Results are individually taylored solutions that are being accomplished in collaboration with management, until mutually agreed goals have been achieved. Successful projects have been managed in regard with: Individual strategy, client-oriented organizational change, mobilizing employee potentials, redevelopment and crisis management, improvement of information management and controlling, cooperations & strategic alliances, implementation of process- and project-management, redesigning administrative processes, implementation of innovation management, introduction of marketing and sales measures. Additional services are being rendered in regard with: Improving negotiational success, improving sales by competence, emotional Power Marketing, permanent employee motivation and commitment, accomplishing change management projects quickly and with lasting effect.

Dr. Birgitta Stolze Dr. Birgitta Stolze
Life Sciences & Bio Sciences Consulting
GERMANY - Hannover

Dr. Birgitta Stolze is experienced in consulting, coaching, and temporary management services for companies in the field of Life-Sciences with the objective to lead innovations and ideas towards economic success. The scope of active support includes strategic development / financing, project management, technology advice and business reengineering, primarily targeting to early start-up companies. Dr. Stolze has obtained a doctoral degree in biology. She has nine years of experience in biomedicine, mainly in haematology and oncology. Parallel to her research work she completed a one-year management training and then worked for a consulting firm on business reengineering projects for health-care and pharmaceutical companies. She was responsible for process analysis, conception of process optimization and support for implementation. After that she joined a venture capital company focussed on Life Sciences with activities in Germany and USA as an investment manager. She was responsible for the acquisition, due diligence and support of early stage start-up companies.

Simone Hoerrlein Simone Hoerrlein, M.Sc.
Life-Sciences, Biotech- und BioNanotech-Consultant
GERMANY - Munich

Simone is specialized in consulting investors in the fields of pharma, biotech and bio-nano technologies, but also work for enterprises, start-ups, organizations and media in life-science.
She continuously supervises developments in life science, focussing on R&D, M&A, patenting & licencing and thus is highly qualified to deliver analyses of public and privately held companies in pharma, biotech, nanotech and medtech. Always critically and constructively considering product and patent portfolios she delivers first class results for her clients.
Well know in the industry by her publications in online and print media, she is a highly recognized professional. To just name a few, her publications appeared in biotech-experte.de, Der Aktionär, Medmix, Going Public, Midas Research, red-shoes.de, cortalconsors.de and wallstreet-online.de. She is editing her own newsletter "Bio & BioNano InvestorNews", developed from a former cooperation with BoerseGo.de.
After obtaining her university degree, Simone worked in instrumental, chemical and biochemical analytics. She is a competent professional in various areas of biomedicine, with emphasis in molecular biology, human genetics, cell biology, receptor studies and individual cancer therapy.
She is well informed about current R&D activities in bio-medicin and bio-nano-medicin emphasizing on innovative technologies, technology-platforms in diagnostics and therapy and in promising new classes of active substances and their efficacy.

Dr. Ilme Hinkel Dr. Ilme Hinkel,
Life Sciences & Bio Sciences Consulting
GERMANY - Mainz

 Based on expert know-how and performed with a hands-on approach, Dr. Hinkel and her team renders services in scientific and technological als well as in management related issues for Life Science and Bio Science ventures. Her scope of services comprises:
Search, matching and organizing the introduction of partners for collaboration with new projects. Executive and staff search.
Temporary management services: Design of application-oriented concepts, research for finding applicable European government grants and subsidies, temporary management of European projects.
Advise and practical support in developing demand-oriented new products, procedures and services.
Pre-sales-consulting by designing and implementing successful marketing concepts. Support by interactive and interdisciplinary communication, asisstance in technical training of end-user staff.

Dr. Heike Esch Dr. Heike Esch,
Life-Sciences & Bio Sciences Consulting
GERMANY - Berlin

 Dr. Heike Esch and her team assist foreign Life-Sciences companies to do business in Germany and other Europen countries, pro-activley supporting Business Development and Sales & Marketing tasks. Services for Life Science companies range from finding new clients, finding international partners for distribution, cooperation and supply, market and literature research, profiling of competitors, analysing most recent results in in research and development and in marketing trends to collaboration in evaluating new technologies, the preparation of business or marketing plans and related objectives. Dr. Esch holds a doctoral degree in biology from the University of Berlin, Germany.

Alexander Kopriva Alexander Kopriva
International Business Strategist
CHINA - Hong-Kong, FRANCE - Paris, UK - London
Alexander is a strategic advisor with over 25 years' business experience and 6 years as a successful IT industry analyst for Gartner Group, META Group and eCommerce Strategies. He and his Partners have subsidiaries in London and Hongkong are specialising in strategic consulting, financial engineering and business development. Alexander has specialized on IT for competitive business advantage, which covers electronic commerce (EC), business processes re-engineering, and knowledge management. His background includes numerous global consulting assignments for both international end-user organizations and software vendors. His previous industry experience includes the IBM mainframe and midrange platforms. Alexander is a Swedish and Austrian citizen and is fluent in English, German, French and Swedish.

Britta Schneider Britta Schneider, MBA
International Excutive Search
FRANCE, Paris
Britta is an experienced specialist for searching and finding executives. She developed her know-how base during many years with a large, world-wide operating executive search firm, where she also managed the establishment of several international branch offices. In collaboration with her partners from international coaching and change-management, she covers the complete scope of service from finding and recruiting to coached integration. Besides other sectors, Britta and her team have special experience in pharma, automotive, machinery and life-science technology. Prior to her executive search career, Britta worked in management positions for several renowned enterprises in corporate fincance, project management and personnel-controlling. Internationally, she was responsible for media-planning, marketing and sales. Britta holds an MBA degree from a German University.

Dr. Alexander Schuster Dr. Alexander Schuster
International Project Management
Intercultural Business Communication
FRANCE, Paris

 Alexander is an experienced business coach, specializing in international project-management and intercultural business communication. He builts his success on many years of management experience in large and worldwide operating conglomerates. As a manager of many international project teams he always focused on existing potentials and mutual common-ground experience. He had far reaching responsibilities in co-managing two mergers. In collaboration with his partners from executive and staff search and change-management, he covers the complete scope of service from finding and recruiting to coached integration. Besides other sectors, Alexander and his team have special experience in pharma, automotive, machinery and life-science technology. He attended the universities in Munich and Erlangen-Nurnberg and also the 'University of the European Federation' in Germany.


Dr. Wieland Geese Dr. Wieland Geese
Auditor, Tax Advisor
FRANCE, Paris & Lyon
Dr. Wieland Geese is an auditor, tax advisor, expert comptable and commissaire aux comptes. His dual professions make Dr. Geese a specialist, not only in consolidations and the auditing of French and German financial statements, but also in international tax law and auditing.
Offices are in Paris and Lyon - France. He and his partners specialise on auditing, tax law, and general business matters for more than twenty years.
He and his partners also specialize in Anglo-American companies with branches in France. Equally, companies seeking a partner in France or wishing to invest in a French company are in good hands with his team.
The firms employees are trilingual (French, German, and English).


Béatrice Marzano Béatrice Marzano
Attorney, Auditor, Tax Advisor
FRANCE, Paris & Lyon
Béatrice Marzano is an attorney, auditor, and advisor on French tax law. She advises mainly mid-size companies, seeking practical solutions in preparing financial statements, taxation, and structuring transactions under corporate law.
Her education as an attorney, advisor on French tax law, and auditor enable her to make a solid contribution to your company's success in the fields of taxation, corporate law, and labor law. In addition, Ms. Marzano is well-experienced with government administrative offices and agencies in France.
Offices are in Paris and Lyon - France. He and his partners specialise on auditing, tax law, and general business matters for more than twenty years.
She and her partners also specialize in Anglo-American companies with branches in France. Equally, companies seeking a partner in France or wishing to invest in a French company are in good hands with his team.
The firms employees are trilingual (French, German, and English).


Johann Plumioën Johann Plumioën
Certified Public Accountant, Auditor, Tax Advisor
FRANCE, Paris & Lyon
Johann has over twelve years' experience as a Certified Public Accountant under U.S. law and a tax advisor and auditor under French law. He has spent four of the last ten years in Germany and the United States and specializes in auditing, U.S. GAAP, IAS/IFRS, and the consolidation of American and German companies.
Offices are in Paris and Lyon - France. He and his partners specialise on auditing, tax law, and general business matters for more than twenty years.
He and his partners also specialize in Anglo-American companies with branches in France. Equally, companies seeking a partner in France or wishing to invest in a French company are in good hands with his team.
The firms employees are trilingual (French, German, and English).


Isabella Catania Isabella Catania
Attorney at Law
ITALY, Milano

 As a German attorney, Isabella is working in Milano, Italy since 2003. Together with her experienced Italian colleagues from corporate accounting, taxation and auditing she renders top quality professional services for entrepreneural activities in Italy and abroad. Thanks to this combination of specialists, all services for legal, tax, management and corporate auditing matters necessary for starting up, increasing and managing business activities in Italy and internationally can be obtained from one team.
Isaballa is offering consulting services for enterprises that are planning the formation of a company, the establishment of a subsidiary, a merger & acquisition or any other business activity in Italy or abroad. Furthermore, she and her colleagues offer services in the field of outsourcing. Consultations can be rendered in English, Italian or German language.


Giuseppe Uslenghi Giuseppe Uslenghi
Strategic & Operational Consulting
ITALY, Rome

Giuseppe specializes in helping companies in the development and implementation of new strategies and performance improvement programs that leverage the use of technology. This typically includes evaluating strategic options, planning and setting up new ventures, and implementing major change. Giuseppe is a former Partner of Arthur D. Little and has covered senior international positions at A.T. Kearney, CSC Index and Nolan Norton & Company. He has 20 years of experience in industry and consulting in Western Europe and North America. Giuseppe and his colleagues have experience in consumer goods, pharmaceutical and chemical companies, banking, manufacturing, global automotive manufacturing, dairy products, internet and e-commerce, restaurant chains, work agencies and global high-tech firms.



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Dr. Daniel Porcedda align=LEFT border= Dr. Daniel Porcedda
Management Consulting
UKRAINE - Kiewe

 A citizen of LUXEMBOURG, Dr. Porcedda lives in Kiew since 1998 and started his consulting firm in 2002 based upon experiences from co-founding a business enterprise in Kiew, and from his work in an Ukranian Law Office.
Dr. Porcedda and his team are experienced consultants for companies planning business activities in Ukraine.
The scope of services is comprised of: Business planning, conducting negotiations, office service, communications, supervision of outsourced manufacturing processes, foundation of company, establishing and managing a Ukraine business presence, translations & localizations, marketing, staff & executive search and –training in Urkainian cultural and business issues.
Besides consulting, practical support in implementing a business in Ukraine is also offered.
Through memberships with "EBA" (European Business Association) and UCCI (Ukrainische National Chamber of Commerce, Dr. Procedda’s firm is well connected to valuable business resources and political organizations.


Wolfgang Doll Wolfgang Doll
Advertising - public relations - strategic marketing
RUSSIAN FEDERATION, Moscow
After having received his college degree in Linguistics, Literature and Political Sciences, Wolfgang was employed by one of the largest Corporate Idendity Agencies in Germany. Parallel to this assignment, he worked as Director for the Center of Business Communication located at Lake Starnberg, Bavaria. There, he had developed the corporate idendity strategies for MAN, Die Vereinte (a large Insurance Conglomerate) and the German Federal Railroad. He then worked as Manager Advertising and Information design for SIEMENS AG in Munich, Germany, where he later established his own advertising firm D.M. Werbung GMBH in 1992. From 1995 he additionally began working in Russia as a consultant for marketing communication. There, in Moscow, he co-founded "Doll & Partners", an advertising agency focussed on marketing, corporate idendity and sales promotion and the entry of international firms into the Russian marketplace.


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Axel Steller Axel Steller
Life Sciences Management Consulting
United Arab Emirates – Dubai

 Mr. Steller and his team with are experienced management consultants in many life sciences sectors. His firm focusses on consulting doctors, haelth clinics, private and government health services organizations as well as all types and sizes of companies with products or services in health care.
His firm advices on setting up business in Dubai and other Arabian Golf nations and on how to benefit from various advantegeous free trade zones of this area.
Business clients can make use of te firms expertise in all types of advertising, marketing and sales of health care related products in med-tech, bio-tech, pharma or anything else related to life sciences issues.
Mr. Steller, who speaks English and German, gained his experience in years of work for renowned health-care advertising and marketing companies, and also an information-technology company with know-how in customer relations management, supply chain management and planning/implementation of ERP-systems /font>

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Karlheinz Haumann Karlheinz Haumann
Management Consulting
Sao Paolo, Brazil

 Karlheinz Haumann’s Consulting firm assists companies in entering the South-American marketplace or in business expansion for those firms that are already established in this area. Based on years of experience as a manager in Brazil, particular talents exist in combining planning and implementation for change management initiatives.
The scope of services comprises: Market and feasibility studies, localization studies, verification of business restrictions and conditions, product registration, business permissions, foundation of companies, M & A; search for local business partners including licensees, legal help through our lawyers with contracts, taxes, permissions, registrations; import/export service including logistics, industrial turn key projects for factories or production lines with know how transfer, commercial turn key projects for sales and distribution organizations, search for suppliers of raw material, components, and finished products. temporary or permanent administration (accounting, treasury, controlling) and management (director level) of companies or business units during start up, vacancy periods, recovering, consolidation. executive search.
Through offices in Germany and Latin America with skilled and experienced managers and staff he guarantees quick and efficient service.
Since 1997 he manages a special project on behalf of the German Chamber of Industry and Commerce of the city of Essen, which is called COMPANY POOL BRAZIL / MERCOSUR and by which members can find business partners in South America.
Mr. Haumann has extensive experience as a manager and was previously working for the following companies: Fichtel & Sachs Germany, as Manager Technological Developments, Amortex (Sachs – Brazil) als Managing Director, ACMC (Sachs – South Africa as Managing Director, IUSA (LUK Mexiko) as Managing Director, and Roland Berger Consulting, Brazil, as Managing Partner.
Mr. Haumann attented Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany, and speaks German, Englisch, Spanish, Portuguese and French.

Matthias Wunsch Matthias Wunsch
Management Consulting
Sao Paolo - Brazil

 Mr. Wunsch's firm is focussed on consulting companies in all areas of ‘businessintelligence’. They use a software that is being used by 60-percent of the most profitable global organizations . This software is used to optimize structure and performance of critical entrepreneurial functions. It spans multiple industries and many fields, including sales and marketing; budgeting and forecasting; planning and reporting; controlling financials; management cockpits; and balanced scorecards.
Based on their practical experience in this sophisticated field, his firm is a first class consulting partner for all issues of strategic and operational planning.
Furthermore, his firm also advises on international coaching, international networking, and other issues of management consulting regarding Brazil.
Previously, Matthias was Head of Market Research for BAYER Crop Science.
He speaks German, Englisch, Spanish, Portuguese and attended universities/colleges in: Bremen, (Germany), Cologne, (Germany), Duesseldorf, (Germany), Zürich, (Switzerland: School of International Business), FEA-USP, Sao Paulo (Brazil). He also is a member of VDI Brazil.


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China Business Development
Chengdu – Beijing - Muenchen

 Mr. Weimann speaks fluently Chinese, English and German, and builts on years of experience in management consulting in China.
He and his team are offering a comprehensive scope of services, including market research, business- and trade fair representation, executive and staff search & training, software advisory services, establishing and maintaining contacts with Chinese partners, advisory in business conflict management and also – through collaborative partners of our organization in China - advice in legal and taxation issues.
Before founding his consulting firm, Mr. Weiman gained valuable experience by working for companies of various industries, e.g. information technology and telecommunications.
Based on years as a Chinese language interpreter for several companies and for the Chinese Commercial Center, Mr. Weiman is familiar with Chinese business culture. and certainly can be considered being an outstanding expert for business development in China.
Dipl-Ing Michael Proell Michael Proell, M.Sc.
Business development and supply chain management
CHINA – Shanghai

 Active in China since 2001, Mr. Proell is managing his international consulting firm. His firm is primarily an international logistics consultancy with many years of experience in international supply chain management, focusing on the Chinese market. He and his experts have successfully managed business development and implementation projects for their customers. Due to their experience they can support clients in the design, implementation and management of their supply chain processes.
He and his experts are also rendering services for entering the Chinese marketplace, for establishing a registered branch office, for foundation of a company, for finding partners for sales and/or procurement and all the various issues related with such tasks.
He assists in marketing and sales as well as in finding the best of vendors for products, partes, materials and services.His clients receive valuable support in solving problems in regard with language barriers and/or legal and cultural relationships.For his clients he finds the appropriate solution on how to sucessfully implemement his entrepreneural activities.
His firm also offers to establlish and to manage a virtual branch office. A complete office infrastructure and workspace is available. In case a client does not want to hire staff, he can make use those of Mr. Proells firm.
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Ralf Schmidt Ralf Schmidt, M.Sc.
Waste Water & Drinking Water Technologies
CHINA - Beijing

 In China, Mr. Schmidt’s engineering firm has worked on projects in Beijing, Fongguan, Guangrao, Zhongshan, Quingdaoi, Chongking, Shenzen, Kaifeng, Shekao and Bingzhou.
Mr. Schmidt’s engineering firm consults and supports companies and municipalities who are concerned with the operation of water plants, e.g. improvement of the technical processes, increasing the efficiency for drinking water plants, for waste water treatment plants and for ground water cleaning.
Due to extensive experience of his engineers, his firm can solve even the most complex challenges. Particular capapbilities lie in a tailor-made solution of processes, that are adapted to local circumstances, but in the improvement of existing plants as well. In many cases it is economically very efficient to optimize existing plants by using their capabilities and capacity to the full extend, instead of building new ones.

Dr. Hong Zhang Dr. Hong Zhang
International Business Development
China - Beijing

 After 12 years studying and working in Germany, Dr. Zhang founded his own business development firm in Beijing, in 2002. As an European-Chinese consulting company, his firm completed a venture capital investment deal for Deutsche Telekom in China and advised several international companies on entry into the Chinese market. Furthermore, Dr. Zhang is chairholder and founder of Deutsche Bank Institute for Mergers & Acquisitions in Shanghai and publisher of an English-language book series “Investment in China”.
Before his study trip to Germany, he spent 3 years as consultant at the Development Research Center of the State Council and 1 year as manager at Chinese International Trust and Investment Company (CITIC), Beijing, China.
From 1997 to 2001, Dr. Zhang was director of corporate development at Bertelsmann group in Germany. He constructed/completed numerous new business models and M&A deals in Europe, the US and particularly in Asia. Among these was the successful investment in leading South-Korean internet company Daum Communications, whose market capitalization increased 100-fold 6 months after Bertelsmann’s investment.
During his Ph.D. program, Dr. Zhang took an active part in Commerzbank’s corporate banking projects and developed a mathematic network approach for modeling, structuring and analyzing of an affiliated group in order to scrutinize creditworthiness of any allied companies.
Dr. Hong Zhang holds the degree of Master of Engineering from Beijing Institute of Technology, China and a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Hannover, Germany. He speaks Mandarin Chinese, German and English.

Dietmar Ottowitz Dietmar Ottowitz
International Business Development
China – Shanghai

 In January 2003, Mr. Ottowitz established his consulting firm in Shanghai. Besides basic tasks like formation of company (RO, WFOE, JV, HK-Company), Bookkeeping, Translations, Trademark-Registratoin etc. his specialties encompass search and evaluation of local partners for supplies and contract manufacturing, the performance of purchasing services, quality management and import-export services.
In all fields of metal parts, bearings, stampings, fine blanking, plastic, rubber, gears, grey iron casting, die casting, cables, and switches, his services are of enormous benefit.
Mr. Ottowitz gained his expertise during his years as manager of purchasing and manufacturing for HILTI (Shanghai) Ltd., a renowned Swiss manufacturer of power tools. In China, he increased the localization shore of products from 20% up to 80%, built up the supplier base from 4 suppliers to 35. He was responsible for an annual purchasing volume of 38 Mio US$ and achieved savings of 15 Mio US$.
Mr. Ottowitz holds a Masters Degree in Business & Manufacturing from St. Gallen University, Switzerland, and speaks German, English and Chinese.

Mohammed Rehan Mohammed Rehan, MBA
International Business Development
Germany and India

 Mr. Rehan is a competent partner to consult other companies due to his extensive experience. He was born in India and graduated at the University of Lucknow, India. In 1986 he came to Germany to additional study Business Administration and graduated with an MBA-degree.
After years of experience as Sales & Marketing Manager and Business Development Manager for German companies he started his own consulting firm in Munich, Germany, where he also established an “Indo-German-Business-Table” to support economic cooperations between Indian and German companies.
Members of this Business-Table meet monthly in Munich. Companies from India and Germany have the opportunity to exchange their experiences with the other country, its culture and business behaviour. This Business-Table also enables participants to expand their own business network.
Mr. Rehan was among the members of a delegation of German officials and business executives who recently visited India, led by German Chancellor Ms. Angela Merkel some time ago.
The intermediation of intercultural competence is the focal point in his work. So he offers courses for interested companies which know how important is the knowledge about the cultural specifics of a foreign country. To be successfull in their international business, such Know-How is absolutely necessary.

Regina Busse Regina Busse
International Business Development
Pune, India

 Mrs. Busse along with her Indian business partners offers a one window solution for companies who wanting to set up in India.
The services provided are Market Entry Service, strategic consultancy and assistance in ongoing Management by outsourcing of finance, HR and payroll. Mrs. Busse is holding an Economic Diploma (MBA) with focus in marketing and international Management. She gained experience working as product manager for the Yellow Pages; she offered German companies a market entry in the UAE market as Consultant and worked as Controller for DaimlerChrysler in Dubai. Today she lives and works in Pune, India and offers her international know how to Indian companies who want to enter the German market as well as international companies being interested in the Indian market.

Mandar Purandare Mandar Purandare, Metallurgist
Translation & Localization
Vendor and Customer relations
INDIEN – Pune

 Mandar Purandare had started his translation and localization firm after years of experience in various technological sectors.
He previously worked as a metallurgist in several types of industry and as an Internet specialist for two outstanding companies: At www.webex.com, a firm that has grown into the worldwide leader in online meeting applications, with 64% market share. More than 3.5 million people use WebEx every month to communicate and collaborate online. And at www.emptoris.com, a firm specializing for optimization in strategic sourcing and in solutions for supply and contract management.
Mandar is a highly qualified expert for all enterprises that need technical, scientific, commercial or any other type of translations as well as localizations for technical information, documents, operating manuals, software, collatoral, brochures or anything else and/or seek contacts to clients/customers, vendors/suppliers or any any type of Indian organization.
Mandar had attendet the Governments Polytechnical College of Pune, he speaks fluently German and English, also Dutch and Polish. His network of colleagues enables him to also offer services for other languages. /font>
Manjeet Oberoi Manjeet Oberoi
Attorney at Law and Management Consultant
INDIA - Delhi

 For companies wanting to enter the Indian marketplace, Mr. Oberoi and the lawyers of his firm, which was established in 1988, are experienced legal advisors and are rendering services in:
Corporate Law:
Foreign direct investments, joint ventures agreements, contracts, commercial law, merger and acquisition, due diligence work, banking & finance.
Intellectual Property:
Trade-mark issues, patent search, drafting of applications, status tracking of trade mark or patent application, documentation relating to patents.
Drafting & Notarization :
Re-validation of documents in India under Indian law, paralegal services, litigation support of all nature, translation services.
His lawyers include various experts like a former Enforcement Directorate officer with experience in customs issues, for litigation and all other types of legal issues. Mr. Oberoi’s law firm has close ties to another law firm, and in association with them, they are able to cater to cities like Bangalore and Hyderabad.

Martin Seybold Martin Seybold, LL.M.Eur
Attorney at Law and Management Consultant
CHINA – Beijing

 Director of Seybold & Partner is Martin Seybold, Ph.D. Martin Seybold is a Member of the Board of Lawyers in Munich with a specialisation in international economic law (LL.M.Eur.) Beside German he speaks English, Chinese and French. Based in Beijing’s first businessdistrict he advises foreign firms doing, or wishing to do business in China and helps Chinese Firms doing business in China.
During his legal traineeship at the economic department of the German embassy Mr. Seybold gained his first experiences in the problems foreign owned companies are facing on the Chinese market. As Legal Counsel at the Headquarter of the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft, one of the world's major international research organisations, he was responsible for all legal matters concerning Sino-German technology transfers.
Within the Fraunhofer Venture Group, a special department in charge of the commercial utilization of research results through spin-offs, Mr. Seybold set up new innovative companies. All employees of Seybold & Partner speak fluently English or German and Chinese. In order to perform our clients' needs in Germany Seybold & Partner cooperates with Julian Grabosch, a lawyer with his own law firm based in Munich) and in trademark matters with Olaf Kretzschmar, a lawyer with his own law firm based in Kiel.

Alexander Kopriva Alexander Kopriva
International Business Strategist
Paris, London, Hong-Kong
Alexander is a strategic advisor with over 25 years' business experience and 6 years as a successful IT industry analyst for Gartner Group, META Group and eCommerce Strategies. He and his Partners have subsidiaries in London and Hongkong are specialising in strategic consulting, financial engineering and business development. Alexander has specialized on IT for competitive business advantage, which covers electronic commerce (EC), business processes re-engineering, and knowledge management. His background includes numerous global consulting assignments for both international end-user organizations and software vendors. His previous industry experience includes the IBM mainframe and midrange platforms. Alexander is a Swedish and Austrian citizen and is fluent in English, German, French and Swedish.

Pierre M. Dubourg Pierre M. Dubourg
Asian Business Developmant & Venture Capital
ASIA - Singapore
Pierre and his team support small-and-medium-sized-enterprises which intend to establish their presence or expand their operations in Asia and Europe. From their offices in Singapore, Germany and China, they pro-actively work with clients on market research, business development, operations set up and fund raising matters. Clients have leveraged upon their network and cost-effective support services for tasks like sourcing of reliable local suppliers, managing of supply chain and setting up of sales operations.
Pierre is a German-French national and speaks German, English and French. He studied economics at ESSCA (France), Harvard University (USA) and University of Trier (Germany) from where he graduated with honors with an MBA. Pierre had previously worked in Project Management at Carl Zeiss in France as well as in Market Research at the American Management Association in New York. He later returned to his family-owned retail and wholesale business in Germany, where he was responsible for Marketing and Financial Management.
Pierre started DBG Marketing & Management Services, a management consulting firm, in 2001. He supported European companies in Asia and worked on projects in the Electronic, Mechanical Engineering, Logistic, Automotive and Software sectors. Currently, Pierre is the managing partner of DN Venture Partners and is responsible for the European division

Marvin Ng Marvin NG
Asian Business Developmant & Venture Capital
ASIA - Singapore
Marvin is a business specialist who helps technology companies expand into Asia and Europe. He and his team support small to medium sized companies on various aspects of the expansion process including market research, business development, operations set up and fund raising, with a special focus on the life sciences, IT and engineering sectors.
Marvin has consulted for prominent organisations from around the world including pharmaceutical companies, medical technology companies and scientific organisations. He balances his consulting activities with research work and is currently supporting research projects on intellectual property and innovation at the IP Academy and the National University of Singapore. He is also the co-editor of the Singapore Biotech Guide and a member of the Business Angel Network of South-East Asia.
A microbiologist by training, Marvin completed his degree under a scholarship from the University of British Columbia in Canada. He was also awarded an MBA graduate fellowship from Simon Fraser University (Canada). He started his career in the petroleum industry with Exxon-Mobil before joining Hewlett-Packard as a senior financial analyst overseeing financial control for new product development. In 1999, Marvin became a pioneer member of a biotech-IT start-up where he was instrumental in raising the company's first round of funds from investors. He also secured the company's first major contract from a prominent cancer research organisation in Singapore. He then joined Singapore's leading economic agency - the Economic Development Board, where he was responsible for investment promotion of European technology companies and in the development of strategic policies to promote Singapore's Biomedical Sciences industry. Marvin is currently, principal consultant and partner of Singapore-based DN Venture Partners.



Marvin Ng Matthias Schroeder
International Business Lawyer
Beijing, CHINA
Since 2003 Matthias permanently lives and works as an experienced international business lawyer in a renowned Chinese law-firm in Beijing. He fluently speaks German, English, Chinese, Russian and some French.
He mainly deals with Chinese private law and international and Chinese business law. He and his team of Chinese colleagues are also specialised in mergers and acquisitions; and they have all the valuable connections to authorities that are of great effect and importance for entrepreneural issues in China.
After taking his second state exam and his admission to the bar of lawyers, Matthias held a lecture series in China on German Local Government Law and German Administrative Procedures Law at the University for Administration and Politics in Beijing on behalf of a project of the German Development Cooperation. Matthias studied law in Berlin, Germany and international law in Cape Town, South Africa, where he received his degree as Magister Legum (LLM) from the University of the Western Cape in South Africa.
Previously, he worked as a legal adviser for the advisory services to the Legal Reform in China, a German-Chinese co-operation project established on behalf of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development. In this capacity he gave support to the Legislative Affairs Commission of the Standing Commmittee of the National People’s Congress for the drafting of new Chinese economic and administrative laws and a new Civil Code for the People’s Republic of China.