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Since 01/2016 | Senior Vice President of Capgemini, Business Leader Public Sector Germany | |
11/2012 - 06/2015 | Vice President of IBM, Business Leader Public Sector Germany, Austria, and Switzerland. The business unit is in charge of all public customers in DACH, either served face-to-face or by other sales channels of IBM, i.e. ministries and administration bodies on federal and state levels, finance, tax, justice, public safety, defence and transportation ministries and administration bodies on federal and state levels, social security organisations, armed forces, regional and local IT service providers and datacentres, universities, sientific research institutes. | |
Since 2012 | Partner of the Corporate Finance Boutique CORFINA AG (www.corfina.de), focus on strategic business transactions in IT, defence and security business sectors. |
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Since 2012 | Founder and Managing Director of „Results Consulting“, a strategic management advisory company. Clients are German Government organizations as well as German and international ICT companies. Focus areas:
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01/2008 – 01/2012 | Senior Vice President of the Thales Group and, until July 2011, President & Chief Executive Officer of Thales in Germany; member of the supervisory boards (Aufsichtsrat) of the companies ESG Elektroniksystem- und Logistik-GmbH, Diehl Aerospace GmbH and Diehl Aircabin GmbH. Focus areas:
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09/2004 – 12/2007 | Senior Vice President of Airbus and Member of the Board of Airbus Defence and Communications Systems. Focus areas:
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09/1997 – 08/2004 | Partner of Accenture with P&L responsibility and member of the management team in the region of Austria, Switzerland and Germany. Focus areas:
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05/1983 – 08/1997 | Senior civil servant and law enforcement officer in North Rhine-Westphalia and with the German federal government administration. From 1992 till 1994 Director of the Federal Border Police and, from 1994 till 1997, Director of the Division Border Police and Aviation Security of the German Federal Ministry of Interior (equivalent to a one star general). Focus areas:
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09/1982 – 04/1985 | Assistant to Professor Dr Klaus Stern, Institute for Public Law and Management, University of Cologne | |
1981 -1984 | Assistant lawyer for labour and public law at the international law firm Boden, Oppenhoff & Schneider, Cologne | |
1979 – 1982 | Assistant to Professor Dr Peter Hanau, Institute for Economic Law, University of Cologne | |
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Since 2002 | Institute for Counter-Terrorism (ICT) of the University of Herzliya, Israel | |
1983 – 1997 | University of Cologne (economic law) Federal Academy for Public Management in Bonn and Boppard (constitutional law; international police collaboration; border security strategies; communication & collaboration) Academy for Public Management of NRW in Düsseldorf (public management) University of Police in Münster (national and international police strategies and collaboration; ICAO & Facilitation) Federal University for Border Police in Lübeck (national and international police strategies and collaboration; ICAO & Facilitation) |
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Education | ||
Since 1986 | Training courses for leadership, rhetoric, international negotiations, mediation, intercultural collaboration, media communication, etc. | |
2007 | St. Galler Business School: Executive Management | |
1985 | “Second State Examination” for lawyers (Düsseldorf, Germany) | |
1985 | Doctor of Jurisprudence with distinction by Prof. Dr. Klaus Stern at the Institute for Public Law and Management | |
1984 – 1985 | Post-graduate: University for Public Management of Speyer: Management | |
1983 | “First State Examination” for lawyers (with distinction), University of Cologne | |
1978 – 1982 | University of Cologne: Law and Sociology |
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Born on the 9th of October, 1957, in Düsseldorf. Grown up in various parts of the United Kingdom and in Germany. 1977 A-level in Leutkirch im Allgäu. Basic military service in Mittenwald and Sonthofen. Since 1983 married with Barbara Hellenthal, tax officer. One daughter and twin boys (one killed in a car accident at the age of 11). Hobbies: Reading, foreign cultures, hiking, cross country skiing, inline skating, uni-, bi- and motorcycling.