The Steinbeis M&A Advisory Board

Our advisory board members are selected entrepreneurs and leaders) and bring valuable know-how and network to the projects.

Christian Ancker, Member of the advisory board

  • Entrepreneur, Partner and Strategy Consultant
  • Managing Partner - Africa Technology Partners
  • Managing Director - Jos. Hansen & Soehne GmbH
  • Managing Director - Kleine Solutions GmbH
  • Partner - Spilling Technologies GmbH
  • Lawyer - LWS Lawyers Ludwig Wöhren Schewtschenko Partnerschaftsges. mbH
  • Evropský Advokát - UEPA advokáti s.r.o., Prague , Czech Republic
  • Director - American Biogas Company, Inc., Wisconsin, USA
  • Various advisory board mandates and memberships in business associations
  • Honorary Consul of the Czech Republic in Hamburg, Schleswig-Holstein, Bremen and Lower Saxony
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Dr. Oliver Arendt, Member of the advisory board

  • Founder and Managing Partner - Top-Management Consulting BV
  • Group Vice President Strategy and M&A - Aliaxis S.A.
  • Group Senior Vice President Strategy and M&A - Solvay S.A.
  • Director, Head of Strategy and M&A EMEA - BASF SE
  • Senior Manager Marketing and Sales Excellence - BASF SE
  • Sales Manager - BASF Polska
  • Project Manager Inhouse Consulting - BASF SE
  • Project Manager / Engagement Manager - Contrium Consulting AG
  • Director Regional Planning, Strategy and Controlling - Bayer Polymers Asia/Pacific
  • Consultant / Senior Consultant / Project Manager - Deloitte Consulting GmbH
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Konrad Bisser, Member of the advisory board

  • Managing Director Faudi Aviation GmbH - Aviation Technology
  • Managing Director Köra Packmat GmbH - Special machine construction
  • Managing Director Rieger GmbH - Container & Plant Engineering
  • Business Unit Manager Prettl Group - Automotive
  • Managing Director Wieser GmbH & Co.KG - Tool & Special Machine Construction
  • Business unit manager / authorized signatory Forschner GmbH - Automotive
  • Technical Manager / Authorized Signatory Metrax GmbH - Electromedical Technology
  • Toolmaking Instruments and Implants / Braun - Aesculap Werke
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Dr. Jie-Wei Chen, Member of the advisory board

  • Managing Director - CrossNet Consulting AG
  • Managing Director and Founder - RSRM Ultrasonics GmbH
  • Steering Committee Member - SWISS ENERGY AND CLIMATE SUMMIT (SwissECS)
  • Senior consultant of a listed Chinese company in the automotive industry
  • Senior consultant of a private Chinese company in the field of medical technology
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Alfred K. Dietel, Member of the advisory board

  • CEO and investor director for a family office of a telecom company in Bulgaria (Max Telecom OOD)
  • Principal and co-founder of a private equity company in London (Pemberton Asset Management LLP)
  • Senior New Ventures Investment Manager of a venture capitalist in London (Imperial Innovations plc)
  • Co-CEO of a biotech company in Martinsried (Cellcontrol Biomedical Laboratories AG)
  • Director M&A at Siemens AG for the Telecoms division in Munich and Boston (ICN, Unisphere Solutions)
  • Partner Steinbeis M&A Partners GmbH until 12-2023
  • Managing Partner Corporate Venture Partners
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Jörn J. Follmer, Member of the advisory board

  • Partner at CDC Capital Wirtschaftsprüfung, Munich for ECM/ IPOs
  • Founder and CEO DLO AG, Potsdam, Third Party Logistics; IPO General Standard Deutsche Börse
  • Founder and CEO CP Telecom AG, Berlin, mobile phone distributor; sale to NASDAQ listed telco
  • Senior Consultant with Kienbaum Unternehmensberatung, Düsseldorf
  • Limited partner and member of the advisory board of Bankhaus Löbbecke, Berlin
  • Supervisory board mandates of listed/private AGs
  • Investments in emerging market companies; BizAngel + BAND membership
  • Honorary Consul of Jamaica - Consular District Bavaria, Baden-Württemberg
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Prof. Dr. Claus W. Gerberich, Member of the advisory board

  • Controlling and Strategic Planning BASF AG, Ludwigshafen
  • Director of the Planning and Controlling Division SCA AG, München/Sundsvall Schweden
  • Manager Schöller Mövenpick GmbH, Nürnberg/Zürich
  • Member of the Board of Directors ADIDAS AG, Herzogenaurach
  • Deputy Chairman of the Executive Board Battelle Europa, Frankfurt/Genf/London/Mailand
  • Chairman of the Executive Board STAFF/Zumtobel Leuchten GmbH, Lemgo/Dornbirn Österreich
  • Acting partner Gerberich GmbH & Cie. Maschinenfabrik, Mannheim/Thalwil Schweiz
  • Member of the Board of Directors Gerberich Consulting AG, Ennetbürgen, Schweiz
  • EWIF Member of the Executive Committee
  • Professorship at the University of Worms Chair of International Management and Controlling
  • Lecturer at the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Institute for Financial Services
Contact
Mobile number:
+49 172 623 4245

Rainer Goehringer, Member of the advisory board

  • CFO and Vice-President at Siemens VDO Chassis Electronics
  • CFO and Vice-President at Magna Cosma Europe
  • COO and Interim CFO BEFESA (a company of the PE firm Triton Partners)
  • President BEFESA Industrial Environmental Solutions
  • Member of the Advisory Board of HASEC Elektronik GmbH
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Guido Haarmann, Member of the advisory board

  • Independent Consultant/ Senior Leadership Advisor
  • Vice President/ Managing Director Airlines Central & Eastern Europe, Amadeus IT Group SA
  • Chairman of the Board, ADCO Umweltdienste Holding GmbH (Toi-Toi-Dixi)
  • Global Managing Partner Travel & Transportation, Accenture
  • Member of the Executive Board Arthur D. Little
  • Consultant/ Senior Manager A.T. Kearney
  • Various advisory board mandates
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Sven G. Kistenpfennig, Member of the advisory board

  • CEO and shareholder in the family business. Development of the Kistenpfennig Group from a rolling bearing specialist to a full-range supplier. After 22 years sale to IPH S.A.S, with 38 locations in 4 countries.
  • Managing Director Zitec Group (Rubix) - M&A, Purchasing, Sales North & D-A-CH Region. Company growth under successor owner (Advent International) to the leading technical distributor in Europe.
  • Various consulting mandates, strategic development, real estate projects, development of a buy-and-build strategy for small and medium sized technical distributors.
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Dr. Christopher Klein, Member of the advisory board

  • Managing Director / CFO – Numaferm
  • Chief Corporate Development Officer – Hameln Pharma
  • Vice-President Business Development – Paul Hartmann Group
  • Head Global M&A – Sandoz (Novartis generics business)
  • CFO / Head Global BD&L – Sandoz Biopharmaceuticals
  • Manager – Ernst & Young Corporate Finance
  • Analyst / Associate – Arthur Andersen Corporate Finance
  • Assistent – Biotechnology Unit of European Commission
Contact
Mobile number:
+49 172 829 5400

Erhard Krauß, Member of the advisory board

  • CEO – Etimex Technical Components GmbH
  • Managing Director - LINHARDT Group
  • CEO - Technical Plastic Systems
  • Member of the Board of Directors - Metabo AG
  • Managing Director - Heinrich Kopp GmbH and Vice President Operations - ACTUANT Corp.
  • Vice President Efficiency Increasing - FAURECIA EXHAUST
  • Plant Manager - FAURECIA EXHAUST
  • Director Repair & Overhaul - MTU Berlin-Brandenburg and Pratt & Whitney of Canada
  • Various supervisory and advisory board mandates, founder of a retail and online trading company, various industry association mandates
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Winfried Küppers, Member of the advisory board

  • MD V-ZUG Germany
  • Head of Steinbeis Board Consulting
  • Successful book author & podcaster with over 50.000 listeners per episode
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Rolf Rickmeyer, Member of the advisory board

  • CEO - MAG Group
  • CFO and CRO - Loewe AG
  • CFO and CRO - Krone AG
  • CFO - Vögele AG
  • Various supervisory board and advisory board mandates, founder of technology companies, member of the listing committee of the Frankfurt Stock Exchange and university lecturer
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Dr. Martin Schaele, Member of the advisory board

  • CEO - BENTELER Mechanical Engineering GmbH
  • CEO - MONFORTS Machine Tools GmbH
  • Vice President - HAGER SE
  • Managing Director - Berker Schalter und Systeme GmbH
  • Managing Director Technology - Novar GmbH
  • Division Manager Technology - BOSCH Automotive
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Helmuth Zimmermann, Member of the advisory board

  • Board mandates: TSG AG, SwissCloud AG, 4USource (Palo Alto), MoonWhale Ventures (Singapore)
  • Leading tasks Sales, Marketing, Engineering: 4USource, TSG, VeBS, EDS, Boeing, Siemens, Novartis, ABB
  • 22 years of entrepreneurship in the field of information technology, focus on outsourcing consulting, software development, SaaS solutions (onshore, nearshore, offshore) Completion of ICT sourcing transaction at national/multinational level: Finance, Insurance, Transportation, Healthcare, Pharma, Utility, Government
  • Accompaniment of various M&A transactions: ICO and private sales of crypto-based assets
  • Current: Development/construction of AI-based algorithmic crypto trading platform & crypto portfolio management
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