Contributors
Dr. Lutz Angerer
Lutz Angerer is a partner of Lovells practicing in the Munich office. He specializes in corporate finance, M&A, corporate reorganizations and corporate law. Lutz Angerer has published a number of articles on corporate law and is co-author of the first commentary on the German Takeover Act.
Lutz Angerer graduated from the University of Hamburg in 1987 and received his doctorate degree from the University of Hamburg in 1990. In 1993 the University of Virginia (USA) bestowed on him his Master of Laws. He started his career by working as research assistant to the renowned corporate law professor Karsten Schmidt from 1988 to 1991. Since 1993 he has been practicing law. Lutz Angerer joined Lovells in 2001. In 2001 he was seconded to the Frankfurt office for 6 months. Lutz Angerer is a member of the German-American Lawyers Association (DAJV).
He can be reached at: lutz.angerer@lovells.com
Isabella Bach-Alexander
Isabella Bach-Alexander has been lawyer with Linklaters Oppenhoff & Rädler in the Litigation/Arbitration Department since 2000.
Education: After finalising law studies at University of Passau in 1998 she completed the I. Juristische Staatsexamen (First Legal State Examination) in 1998 and the II. Juristische Staatsexamen (Second Legal State Examination) in 2000. Subsequently, she successfully participated in the seminar to become a specialist (Fachanwalt) in insolvency law.
Experience: German civil, commercial, and corporate litigation, insolvency law and complex litigation; strategic advice and representation of creditors, shareholders and affiliated companies of debtors prior to and during insolvency proceedings, in particular the enforcement of security rights, the defence of claims arising from a breach of capital contribution and maintenance regulations, representation in all insolvency related court proceedings.
Thomas Bader
Thomas Bader has been lawyer with Linklaters Oppenhoff & Rädler in the Employment and Company Pension Department since 2004.
Education: After finalising law studies at University of Munich (LMU), he completed the I. Juristische Staatsexamen (First Legal State Examination) in 1999 and the II. Juristische Staatsexamen (Second Legal State Examination) in 2001. From 2002 to 2003 he worked as a research assistant at University Eichstätt-Ingolstadt.
Experience: General company pension issues (including closures and modification of pension plans, introduction of pension plans), individual and collective labour law (in particular transfer of business and outsourcing, advice on collective bargaining issues and industrial relations, employment litigation) as well as due diligence exercise.
Allison S. Bailey
Allison Bailey is a Vice President and Director in the Atlanta office of The Boston Consulting Group. She is a core group member of the firm's Worldwide Organization and Consumer Goods practices. Since joining in 1987, she has advised clients on both sides of the Atlantic on issues related to M&A growth strategies, portfolio restructuring, sales and marketing effectiveness, global corporate transformation, and post-merger integration. She holds a BA in mathematics from Dartmouth College, an MBA in finance from the Wharton School, an MA in international relations from S AIS of Johns Hopkins University, and an MA in public administration from the Kennedy School of Harvard University.
She can be reached at: bailey.allison@bcg.com
Rainer Bätz
Rainer Bätz is Director in the Corporate Finance Department of Deloitte & Touche, Munich. He joined the firm in 2002 after having worked as Manager for Arthur Andersen.
Rainer, born in 1966, is mainly focused in cross border deals involving financial investors and multinational conglomerates. He has nearly 10 years of experience in transaction and valuation advisory for media companies covering the whole value chain of film entertainment.
Prior to joining Arthur Andersen in 1996 he received his diploma in economics from the University of Heidelberg.
He can be reached at: rbaetz@deloitte.de
Steve Blum
Stephen Blum has forty years of solid and diversified management experience with broad and deep functional knowledge in strategic planning, corporate communications, investor and media relations, crisis management and marketing.
Blum was Senior Vice President of Investor Relations for the Dial Corporation and the integration officer for Dial following their acquisition by the Henkel Group. He is currently Adjunct Professor of Management at the W. P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University.
His prior experience includes senior staff for Nelson A. Rockefeller during his term as Governor of the State of New York and Vice President of the United States of America and executive management positions at four major US based corporations. Blum earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Economics from New York University and a Masters of Business Administration Cum Laude from Fordham University.
Manfred Bögle
Manfred Bögle is Senior Partner at Deloitte & Touche GmbH. Manfred Bögle, born in 1956, is head of Corporate Finance Department at the Munich and Stuttgart office.
He is Member of the Valuation Board (Arbeitskreis Unternehmensbewertung) and of the Professional Insurance Committee of the Institute of Chartered Accountants (IDW). He has more than 20 years of experience in transaction and valuation advisory and has special experience in the financial and manufacturing industry (audit, corporate finance advisory, valuation and IFRS implementation). Manfred Bogie holds a degree in economics and is appointed as German Certified Public Accountant and German Tax Consultant.
He can be reached at: mboegle@deloitte.de
Russell J. DaSilva
Russell DaSilva is a partner in the New York office of Lovells, and is the head of the firm's United States banking practice. He handles secured and unsecured credit facilities, acquisition finance, project finance, asset-based lending, letters of credit and other trade financing arrangements, credit enhancement for public and private debt issuance, securitization and other sales of financial assets, derivatives and non-judicial restructurings. He is admitted to the bar of the State of New York.
DaSilva received his undergraduate degree from Princeton University (A.B., summa cum laude, 1976), and his law degree from Harvard University (J.D. 1979).
Craig DeForest
DeForest helps business leaders and groups learn to incorporate systemic approaches to change and development of their businesses, their operations, and their organizations. He has consulted to corporations across the U.S., Europe, and parts of Asia with small and large corporations. He is a senior member of the Institute for Developmental Processes of Carmel, California. The Institute has developed unique methodologies for building advanced business organizations which develop and apply the full potential of their employees to the delivery of superior customer value and remarkable business results. He can be reached at: info@pelzerap.com
Ingmar Dörr
Ingmar Dörr joined the Tax Team of Lovells Munich as Associate in 2003. He was admitted to the bar in 2004. The main focus of his practice is the consultation of German and international clients in M&A and private equity transactions as well as in international and European tax law issues. He is in the course of writing a doctoral thesis on the subject of European company taxation at the Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property, Competition and Tax Law in Munich, department of accounting and tax law of Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Schön.
He can be reached at: ingmar.doerr@lovells.com
Jeanie Daniel Duck
Jeanie Daniel Duck is a Senior Vice President and Director in the Atlanta office of The Boston Consulting Group. She joined as a partner in 1988. She is the author of "The Change Monster: the Human Forces the Fuel and Foil Corporate Transformation and Change" and "Managing Change: the Art of Balancing" for the Harvard Business Review. For over twenty years she has focused on the emotional and behavioral impact of change on corporate performance. Jeanie has worked extensively with clients in multiple industries on post-merger integrations and major corporate transformations. She is BCG's guru on Change Management and a leader in their Organization practice group. She earned her BSAE degree from the University of Georgia and her MSAE at Pratt Institute.
She can be reached at: duck.jeanie@bcg.com
Markus Ebert
Markus Ebert has been lawyer with Linklaters Oppenhoff & Rädler in the Employment and Company Pension Department since 2003.
Education: After finalising law studies at University of Munich (LMU) he completed the I. Juristische Staatsexamen (First Legal State Examination) in 2000 and the II. Juristische Staatsexamen (Second Legal State Examination) in 2002. Subsequently, he continued with postgraduate studies in European and International commercial law (LL.M. Eur.) at University of Munich (LMU). In addition, he successfully participated in the seminar to become a specialist (Fachanwalt) in labour law.
Experience: Company pension (in particular legal assessments of pension schemes in connection with the acquisition of companies), individual and collective labour law (in particular day-to-day employment advice, drafting and review of employment and service contracts, dismissal and severance issues, employment litigation, co-determination), business closures and restructuring of companies as well as M&A-related labour law advice.
Fabian Ehlers
Fabian Ehlers is a partner of Linklaters Oppenhoff & Rädler. Practising in their Frankfurt office, he is specialized in corporate and securities laws. Fabian Ehlers has extensive experience in international and domestic capital markets transactions, in particular equity and equity-linked securities offerings, as well as takeovers and restructurings.
Fabian Ehlers is a graduate of Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg and New York University School of Law (M.C.J.).
He can be reached at: fabian.ehlers@linklaters.com
Dr. Thomas Elser
Managing associate of Linklaters Oppenhoff & Rädler, Munich office.
Thomas Elser, born 1970, is mainly focused on corporate tax planning, structuring of national and international M&A transactions (including acquisition financing), and tax-efficient structuring of opportunity funds.
Elser, who joined the firm in 2001 after having worked since 1995 as assistant professor in tax law at the University of Stuttgart-Hohenheim, being managing associate since 2003, is known for his innovative tax solutions and is author of numerous professional publications and regular lecturer at conventions and seminars.
He can be reached at: thomas.elser@linklaters.com
Raymond J. Fisher
Raymond J. Fisher is a partner of Linklaters Oppenhoff & Rädler at the Frankfurt office. As head of the U.S. practice group in Frankfurt, he is specialized in U.S. aspects of equity and debt securities offerings including SEC registered transactions and U.S. aspects of cross-border mergers and acquisitions.
Raymond J. Fisher became partner at a New York law firm in 1998 and he joined Linklaters' Frankfurt office in 2002. He is a graduate of Harvard College and the New York University School of Law.
He can be reached at: raymond.fisher@linklaters.com
Alexander Geiser
Alexander Geiser is a Managing Partner at HERING SCHUPPENER onsulting and heads the German M&A business from the Frankfurt office. Over the past ten years he has advised management boards in over 75 corporate transactions and critical situations. He specialises in cross-border transactions and multi-market campaigns, drawing from a multi-local perspective - having worked in New York, London and Frankfurt.
In case of comments and questions, contact: ageiser@heringschuppener.com
Dr. Volker Geyrhalter
Volker Geyrhalter is a partner of Lovells practicing in the Munich office. He specializes in M&A and private equity transactions, including complex cross border transactions, corporate reorganizations and general corporate work. Volker Geyrhalter is well published and author of various articles on corporate law in legal journals. He is recommended in the JUVE Handbuch 2004/2005 as a specialist for M&A transactions.
Volker Geyrhalter graduated from the University of Regensburg in 1994 and received his doctorate degree from the University of Regensburg in 1995. He joined Lovells in 1997 and became a partner of the firm in May 2002. He was seconded to the Frankfurt office in 1999 and to the London office in 2000, in each case for 6 months.
He can be reached at: volker.geyrhalter@lovells.com
Dr. Kirsten Girnth
Kirsten Girnth was admitted as a lawyer to the Frankfurt bar in August 1997 and is a partner with the law firm DLA Piper Rudnick Gray Cary in the firm's Frankfurt office. She is a member of the firm's Corporate and IT practice. She provides commercial advice to international companies in the fields of IT law and cross-border mergers and acquisitions.
Kirsten Girnth is a graduate of Frankfurt university where she received her law degree as well as a degree in economics; she obtained her Ph.D. (Dr. rer. pol.) in February 1999. Her extensive work on the harmonization process of public procurement in the European Community was published in May 2000. Prior to working as a lawyer in 1997 she worked as a journalist for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and for a radio station.
Stefan Griesser
Stefan Griesser is a Vice President in Deutsche Bank's M&A group in Frankfurt. He joined the Corporate and Investment Bank of Deutsche Bank in 2000. Between 1996 and 2000, he worked for the Group Investments Department which manages Deutsche Bank's own strategic M&A transactions. In both functions he worked on a number of US-German M&A transactions involving financial institutions and industrial companies. He holds a Diplom-Kaufmann from Westfälische Willhelms-Universität Münster.
Dr. Rüdiger Grube
Dr. Rüdiger Grube has been a member of the Board of Management of DaimlerChrysler AG since September 20, 2002, and is responsible for the Corporate Development which includes Corporate Strategy, Mergers & Acquisitions, Strategic Alliances, Industrial Participations and since October 1, 2004, responsible for all China-activities of DaimlerChrysler AG. In addition, he is a member of the Board of Directors of the Mitsubishi Motors Corporation (MMC), of the European Aeronautic Defence and Space Company (EADS N.V.) and Chairman of the Supervisory Board MTU Friedrichshafen GmbH as well as of the DaimlerChrysler-Off-Highway GmbH.
Dr. Grube was born in Hamburg on August 2, 1951. Following commercial/technical training in metal aircraft construction, he studied automotive engineering and aircraft construction at the University for Applied Sciences in Hamburg and graduated as a qualified engineer. He later studied vocational and business teaching at the University of Hamburg. He held a special teaching post in production and engineering at the University of Hamburg from 1981 to 1986. In 1986 he completed a doctorate at the Universities of Hamburg and Kassel in the areas of industrial science and polytechnology. Dr. Grube joined then Messerschmitt-Bölkow-Blohm GmbH in 1989, later Daimler-Benz Aerospace (DASA).
Prof. Dr. Daniel S. Hamilton
Daniel S. Hamilton is the Richard von Weizsäcker Professor and Director of the Center for Transatlantic Relations at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University. He also serves as Executive Director of the American Consortium on EU Studies, the EU Center Washington DC.
He is the publisher of the bimonthly magazine Transatlantic: Europe, America & the World. He served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs; US Special Coordinator for Southeast European Stabilization, Associate Director of the Policy Planning Staff, Senior Associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, and Deputy Director of the Aspen Institute Berlin. He has also taught at the University of Innsbruck and the Free University of Berlin.
Recent publications include The New Frontiers of Europe (2005, ed.); Partners in Prosperity: The Changing Geography of the Transatlantic Economy (with Joseph P. Quinlan, 2004); Transatlantic Transformations: Equipping NATO for the 21st Century (2004, ed.).
Dirk Hoffmann
Dirk Hoffmann is Chief Financial Officer of Jamba! GmbH and Vice President of VeriSign.
He joined Jamba! in January 2001, shortly after the company had been founded. Today, he is responsible for finance and controlling for the Jamba! / Jamster group of companies. Before Jamba!, he had been a Senior Associate with Booz Allen Hamilton, working on international consulting assignments for the financial services and communications/media/ technology industry. Dirk Hoffmann holds a German Master's degree in Management (Dipl.-Kfm.) from WHU Koblenz, and an MBA from The University of Texas at Austin (USA).
Dirk Horcher
Dirk Horcher is a legal assistant in the M&A / Corporate department in Frankfurt am Main of Linklaters, in Germany operating under the name Linklaters Oppenhoff & Rädler. He studied law as well as economics in Bayreuth (Germany). In his legal traineeship he worked in the securities branch of the Federal Financial Supervisory Authority ("Bundesanstalt für Finanzdienstleistungsaufsicht") in Frankfurt am Main and in the Corporate department of Linklaters, London.
Reto Isenegger
Reto Isenegger is a Partner and Vice President of the global strategy and technology consulting firm Booz Allen Hamilton. He is a member of the firm's global Financial Services Group and member of the Swiss executive team, based in Zurich. His expertise lies in the area of strategic alliances as well as in designing and implementing efficiency improvement programs mainly with leading financial services companies.
Prior to joining the Financial Services Group of Booz Allen Hamilton, he worked several years for international management consulting firms in the area of performance improvement and corporate finance. Reto Isenegger holds a university degree in business administration and information management from the University of St. Gallen (Switzerland). During his university studies he worked in the business transformation and restructuring department for the headquarter of an international leading Swiss bank.
Contact: isenegger_reto@bah.com
Barbara S. Jeremiah
Barbara S. Jeremiah heads Alcoa's corporate development activities, which include corporate initiatives, supporting the business units as they look to expand through acquisitions and/or joint ventures, finding opportunities that cross business lines, and handling corporate divestitures. She was elected an executive vice president of Alcoa in July 2002 and is a member of the Alcoa Executive Council, the senior leadership group that provides strategic direction for the company. Ms Jeremiah serves on the Board of Directors of Equitable Resources Inc., the Women's Center and Shelter of Greater Pittsburgh and the Board of Trustees of the Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre. She is also a member of the Business Advisory Council of the University Of Virginia School Of Law and the Women's Center National Council at the University of Virginia. She holds a bachelor's degree in political science from Brown University and a Juris Doctor degree in law from the University of Virginia.
Ravin Jesuthasan, CFA
Ravin Jesuthasan is Managing Principal and Global Leader of Towers Perrin's Rewards and Performance Management Practice based in Chicago. He has extensive experience working with clients in North America, Europe, Asia and Latin America to align their people programs and policies with business strategy and shareholder value creation. As recognized thought leader, he is a frequent speaker at conferences and has been widely quoted by leading business media globally.
Nikolai Juchem
Nikolai Juchem is a Director at HERING SCHUPPENER Consulting and a member of the capital markets team in Frankfurt. He advises clients primarily on strategic IR and PR issues. Nikolai acquired his supra-disciplinary expertise among other things as Head of Financial Public Relations at TUI AG. Prior to that he was Vice President for Investor Relations at Stinnes AG, where he moved the company's equity story forwards and communicated it to the key international capital markets.
In case of comments and questions, contact: njuchem@heringschuppener.com.
Karoline Jung-Senssfelder
Karoline Jung-Senssfelder is a doctoral candidate at the Endowed Chair for Corporate Finance and Capital Markets at European Business School (ebs), Oestrich-Winkel and a research associate with the Center for Entrepreneurial and Small Business Finance. She is currently working as Summer Analyst with the investment banking division of Goldman Sachs.
She can be reached at: karoline.jung-senssfelder@gs.com
Dr. Michael Kaschke
Michael Kaschke is 48 years old, has a Ph.D. in physics and a degree in finance and marketing. He started his industrial career with IBM research in the USA. After joining Carl Zeiss in 1992, he was the General Manager of two business divisions and, before being appointed to the Executive Board, was head of the Medical Technology Group of Carl Zeiss. He is currently the CFO of Carl Zeiss and oversees the Medical, Consumer Optics and Asia/Pacific business of Carl Zeiss.
He can be reached at: kaschke@zeiss.de
Roland Klein
Roland Klein is a CNC Partner and head of CNC UK Ltd. London. Prior to joining CNC, he was as an Executive Board Member with Ericsson and responsible for Communications and Investor Relations.
From 1992 until 1999 he held various positions in the Communications department of Daimler-Benz AG / DaimlerChrysler AG, culminating in the post of Vice President Corporate Communications. Between 1980 and 1992, he worked as a financial journalist for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Börsen-Zeitung and Manager Magazin in Frankfurt am Main, Hamburg, New York and London.
Roland Klein studied Economics in Stuttgart and completed Post-Graduate Programs at the Harvard Business School and the University of Southern California.
Carsten Kratz
Carsten Kratz is a Senior Vice President and Director in the Frankfurt office of The Boston Consulting Group. He joined the Munich office of The Boston Consulting Group in 1990 and moved to the Frankfurt office in 1992. Since 1999 he leads the German Technology & Communications Practice Area. His assignments centered around strategy development and operational efficiency improvements, especially in supply chain management, customer relationship management and in sales an services, both for headquarters and country operations. Besides, he has a lot of experience in implementation issues, especially in turnaround and PMI situations. Mr. Kratz is a commercial engineer from the technical university of Darmstadt.
He can be reached at: kratz.carsten@bcg.com
Dr. Werner Kreuz
Dr. Werner Kreuz is the Managing Director Europe for A.T. Kearney. One of his major consulting areas is supporting leading companies in all their Merger & Acquisitions activities - from identifying targets to managing the post merger integration.
Prior to joining A.T. Kearney in 1979, Werner Kreuz received his doctor's degree in business administration and his Diploma in Mathematics both from the University in Cologne.
He can be reached at: werner.kreuz@atkearney.com
Dr. Fritz Kröger
Dr. Fritz Kröger is Vice President of A.T. Kearney Management Consultants, Leader of the European Strategy Practice.
Fritz Kröger is 29 years in the consulting industry and has broad experience in growth strategies, pre- and post-merger integration, restructuring and privatization in Europe, North America and Asia. He is author/co-author of eight books on strategy and restructuring and was lately chosen by The Consulting Magazine as only European for its annual list of the 25 most influential consultants.
Rudolf-Henning Lohse
Rudolf-Henning Lohse joined Dräger Medical in 1992 where he has been responsible for several global change-management and reengineering projects focusing on implementing process management. He headed both integration projects for Dräger Medical (the 2003 joint venture with Siemens AG and the 2004 acquisition of Air-Shields) and currently acts as general manager the Business Unit Perinatal Care. Mr. Lohse holds a mechanical engineering degree from the University Dortmund.
He can be reached at: henning.lohse@draegermed.com
Dr. Kai Lucks
Kai Lucks (57) heads the Group Strategies Department at Siemens corporate headquarters, which is responsible for the Center of Competence for M&A integration. During his career, he has worked for various Groups and joint ventures within Siemens and with associated companies, especially in the fields of medical engineering and power generation.
He also has many years of experience in the design, engineering and local management of large infrastructure projects in countries in the Middle East, Africa and Asia. Dr. Lucks has participated in over 1, 000 M&A projects, and is the designer of the Siemens M&A process framework for M&A integration. He has written several publications on M&A management, and is founder and President of the German Federal M&A Association (www.bm-a.de). He holds a doctorate in engineering from the Technische Universität München, and is a lecturer in international project management for the international MBA program at the University of Applied Sciences in Ingolstadt, Bavaria.
Contact: kai.lucks@siemens.com
Dr. Oliver Maier
Oliver Maier is Vice President of M&A and Deputy Head of M&A for Degussa since 2001.
In this capacity, he has execution project lead and overall responsibility for the Americas. Previously he was Vice President of Legal and Corporate Development for Veba Oil from 1999 - 2001 with a focus on South American projects. Prior to that he held several corporate legal counsel positions with Stinnes AG and Veba Oil AG from 1996 - 1999.
Mr. Maier is Attorney-at-Law and holds a J.D. and a Doctorate in Philosophy from Munich University. He serves as management board member of Stinnes Interoil AG.
Dr. Joerg G. Matthiessen
Joerg Matthiessen is a Senior Vice President and Director of the Boston Consulting Group and Managing Officer of the Atlanta office. He is a core group member of both the Worldwide Industrial Goods and Technology & Telecommunications practice areas. He has advised his clients on globalization strategies, regional market strategies, manufacturing network optimization, supply chain management and channel strategies. His leadership in transatlantic integration efforts have been featured in leading business publications (e.g., Financial Times). Joerg holds an MBA/PhD in economics from the University of Hamburg.
He can be reached at: matthiessen.joerg@bcg.com
Ingo H. Möller
Before becoming CEO of Raudnitz Group, Munich, Ingo H. Möller served as Chief Financial Officer of several holding companies in the industrial, trade and telecommunication sectors. For several years, and especially in his last position as VP & CFO Central Europe for Ingram Micro, he successfully managed to change the traditional German CFO role towards a Corporate Performance Manager role.
He understands the CFO as an entrepreneur, a business partner for the CEO, being fully responsible for both the business and its continuous profitable growth. He is known for restructuring companies back to profitability as well as integrating them into new organisations.
Ingo H. Möller started his career with Deloitte & Touche, Düsseldorf, after obtaining a business degree at the University of Münster. He is a member of several business associations and publishes articles and gives lectures on the new CFO role.
He can be reached at: ingoh.moeller@raudnitz.com
Rafael Moral y Santiago
Rafael Moral y Santiago is a Director of Deutsche Bank AG's Corporate Development (AfK) unit in the Americas (since 2004). Prior to moving to New York he co-lead the Corporate Strategy practice within Corporate Development in Frankfurt/Germany and advised on and executed several principal M&A transactions for Deutsche Bank AG (2002-2004).
Before rejoining Deutsche Bank Group in 2002, Rafael Moral y Santiago worked as CFO of 100world AG, Nuremberg/Germany (2000-2002) and as a consultant at McKinsey & Company, Inc., Frankfurt/Germany and Barcelona/Spain (Top Management Consulting in the Financial Services Industry) (2000). He started his professional career at Deutsche Bank AG as a commercial banking apprentice in Hamburg/Germany (1993-1995).
Rafael Moral y Santiago holds a masters degree in business administration from the Leipzig Graduate School of Business (HHL), Leipzig/Germany (1999) and attended INSEAD's MBA and IEP programs, Fontainebleau/France and Singapore (1998, 2005).
George Nolen
George Nolen is the president and chief executive officer of Siemens Corporation, a position he has held since January 2004. He leads the $16.6 billion, New York-based U.S. company of Siemens AG, with 70, 000 employees based in all 50 states.
The first American to hold this position, Nolen began his career with Siemens in 1982, and has served in a variety of management positions, including president and CEO of Siemens Information and Communication Networks Inc. (now Siemens Communications, Inc.) from February 2002. Prior to that, he was president and CEO of Siemens Enterprise Networks LLC, where he built the enterprise business into a cohesive, customer-focused solutions provider. He is a member of The Business Roundtable, where he also serves on the organization's Security Task Force, and is a board member of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. In 2005, Governor Warner named Nolen to the Board of Visitors of Virginia Tech, where he is an alumnus. Nolen enjoys golfing, boating and skiing with his family. He and his wife are active supporters of several children's organizations.
Helmut B. Nuhn
Helmut B. Nuhn is Vice President Acquisitions & Divestments Henkel KGaA, Düsseldorf, Germany.
He holds a degree in Business Administration and has a broad financial background from his professional career before he joined Henkel in 1981. Since then he held positions as Divisional Controller and Commercial Manager of two production companies before he successfully implemented the international materials management in Henkel's cosmetics division. In 1998 he took over responsibility for acquisitions and divestitures.
Stephan Oppenhoff
Stephan Oppenhoff is a partner in the M&A / Corporate department in Frankfurt am Main of Linklaters, in Germany operating under the name Linklaters Oppenhoff & Rädler. After studying law in Germany and at the New York University he was admitted to practise as a lawyer in Germany and in New York, USA. He advises on M&A-transactions, corporate and capital markets law. In recent years he focused on the take-overs of listed companies.
Dr. Bettina Palazzo
Bettina Palazzo is an expert in business ethics with extensive theoretical and practical experience. She was responsible for establishing the KPMG Business Ethics Practice in Germany and worked as a strategic management consultant for the St. Gallen Management Center. Since 2001 she has worked as an independent business ethics consultant. Her research on the intercultural differences between U.S. and German business ethics won the Max Weber Award for Business Ethics. In addition to her consulting work she teaches at the University of Applied Sciences in Deggendorf, Germany, and at the Ethics Center of the University of Zurich.
Bernhard K.F. Pelzer
Bernhard Pelzer is founder and managing partner of Pelzer AP. He manages the company headquarter in Hamburg, Germany. Bernhard Pelzer is skilled in a large number of professional areas. Executives value his social all-terrain character that allows him to be at the same time empathetic and insistent. Even in situations loaded with conflicts he performs safely and productively, regardless if acting from the front or the background.
Bernhard Pelzer studied Architecture, Bio- and Geo-Science and Ecology at the University of Essen and finished his studies with the title Graduate Engineer. He continued his studies in the areas of political science at the University of Duisburg. He is trained as systemic process manager and process designer (methods of the humanistic psychology), train and supervisor.
All co-authors can be reached at info@pelzerap.com
Carolina Perez-Lopez
Carolina Perez-Lopez is a tax associate in the New York office of Lovells. Her work is primarily focused on advising clients as to the tax consequences of US and cross-border transactions, including securities offerings, private equity funds, and international tax planning. Carolina Perez-Lopez is admitted to the bar of the state of New York, is a member of the Ilustre Colegio de Abogados in Spain, and is qualified to practice as a solicitor, member of The Law Society of England and Wales.
Carolina Perez-Lopez graduated in law from the University of Navarra (Spain) in 1999 and received a Masters Degree in Spanish Taxation and Accounting from the University of Navarra (Spain) in 2000. After receiving a full scholarship from the Pedro Barrie de la Maza Foundation in 2000, she pursued an LL.M. in International Taxation from the New York University in 2001. Carolina Perez-Lopez joined Lovells in 2003 after acquiring some years of experience at a major US law firm in New York.
She can be reached at: carolina.perez@lovells.com
Udo Philipp
Udo Philipp is 41 years old, studied economics and politics in Paris, started his career in banking and consulting, worked for Bertelsmann as CFO of their Professional Information Business and became a founding partner of EQT Partners Munich in 2000. He was responsible partner for EQT's acquisitions of Leybold Optics, Symrise (Haarmann+Reimer/ Dragoco), Sirona and Carl Zeiss Vision.
Dr. Gerhard Plaschka
Co-founder and managing partner of MindFolio, a concept development and decision-science based marketing consultancy.
MindFolio specializes in creating, quantifying and verifying choices, customer experiences and solutions for brands, products, properties and services. The business is based in Chicago, London, Salt Lake City and Düsseldorf. He has extensive experience in developing global product-market positioning and product-service optimization models for consumer and industrial market oriented companies and serves as Associate Professor of Strategy and Venture Management at The Charles H. Kellstadt Graduate School of Business, DePaul University, Chicago.
Prior to co-founding MindFolio he was principal at two boutique management consulting firms and Chairman of the Department of Management at DePaul University. He serves on the board of various for profit and non-for-profit organizations, and has written several books and journal articles on entrepreneurial venture management and customer driven growth strategies.
He can be reached at: gplaschka@mindfolio.com
Joseph P. Quinlan
Joseph P. Quinlan is a Fellow at the Center for Transatlantic Relations at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University. He specializes in global capital flows, international trade and multinational strategies. He has extensive experience on Wall Street and in the US corporate sector. He lectures at New York University and was appointed as an Eisenhower Fellow in 1998. His publications have appeared in such venues as Foreign Affairs, the Financial Times and the Wall Street Journal.
He is the author of the Center's 2003 study, Drifting Apart or Growing Together? The Primacy of the Transatlantic Economy; co-author (with Daniel S. Hamilton) of the Center's 2004 study, Partners in Prosperity: The Changing Geography of the Transatlantic Economy; and author of three other books, including Global Engagement: How American Companies Really Compete in the Global Economy (2000).
Dr. Wolfgang Reim
Dr. Wolfgang Reim is President & CEO of Dräger Medical, a global leader for acute-point-of-care medical equipment headquartered in Lübeck, Germany. He joined Dräger in 2000 with a turn-around task and moved the company to double-digit EBIT margin in 2003. Driven by strategic considerations, he started external growth at Dräger Medical with the integration of Siemens Monitoring in 2003 and the Air-Shields acquisition in 2004. Dr. Reim has 15 years of experience in medical equipment industry and occupied positions with global responsibility in magnetic resonance, X-ray and ultrasound prior to Dräger Medical. Several years of his professional carreer he spent in the USA. Dr. Reim holds a PhD in Physics from ETH Zürich.
He can be reached at: wolfgang.reim@draeger.com
Julianne Reynolds
Julianne Reynolds is a partner in the New York office of Lovells. Her practice focuses on the US tax aspects of cross-border transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, capital markets, private equity funds, financial transactions, as well as in bound and outbound tax planning.
Julianne graduated from William & Mary law school in 1994. She joined Lovells in 2002 and became a partner in May 2003. Julianne is admitted to the bar in the states of New York and Virginia and in the District of Columbia.
She can be reached at julie.reynolds@lovells.com
Prof. Dr. Frank Richter
Frank Richter is consultant at Goldman Sachs & Co. oHG, Frankfurt, and holds the Chair of Strategic Management and Finance at University of Ulm.
Frank Richter joined Goldman Sachs in 2000. Since then he is working in the area of mergers & acquisitions, corporate finance and corporate strategy. Prior to joining Goldman Sachs, he worked nine years as a consultant for McKinsey & Company, also in the area of strategy and finance. In 2000 Frank Richter accepted a position as a professor at Private University Witten/Herdecke, and afterwards (in 2004) at University of Ulm. He is member of different supervisory boards and serves on the board of the Schmalenbach Foundation. Further information can be found on his website www.mathematik.uni-ulm.de/strategie/.
He can be reached at: frank.richter@gs.com
Robert Ripin
Robert Ripin practices in the New York office of Lovells and is the head of the US securities law team within Lovells' international capital market practice. He has a broad transactional practice in the field of international securities offerings and has represented issuers, underwriters, corporate trustees and depositary banks in both equity and debt offerings and also advises companies on US corporate law matters and SEC compliance.
Robert Ripin received his BA from Columbia University in 1985 and his JD from New York University School of Law in 1988. He was a visiting student at St. Ann's College, Oxford University in 1983-1984. After ten years with a Wall Street law firm he joined Lovells as a partner in 1999.
He can be reached at: robert.ripin@lovells.com
Dr. Jürgen Rothenbücher
Dr. Jürgen Rothenbücher leads the Engineering & Automation Industry Practice of A.T. Kearney. His major consulting areas are in growth - both organic growth as external growth and all related strategic and operational tasks.
Dr. Jürgen Rothenbücher has 16 years of consulting experience and worked also for several years as managing director of an industrial company. His academic background is in engineering and economics from TH Darmstadt, ECL Lyon and RWTH Aachen.
He can be reached at: juergen.rothenbuecher@atkearney.com
Dr. Jens Schädler
Dr. Jens Schädler is a Partner and Vice President of the global strategy and technology consulting firm Booz Allen Hamilton. He is a member of the firm's Organisation, Change Management & Leadership Group and Managing Partner of the Zurich office. In his consulting work he focuses on strategic and organizational issues in the telecommunication and transportation industries as well as the public sector.
Jens Schädler holds a Ph.D. in Law from the University of Hamburg and a Master's Degree in International Management from the Community of European Management Schools (CEMS). He received a bachelor's degree in business administration from the University of Cologne.
Contact: schadler_jens@bah.com
Dr. Marcus Schenck
Marcus Schenck is Co-Head of Goldman Sachs' investment banking business for Germany and Austria. He has predominantly worked on merger transactions, focusing mainly on large industrial companies. He was involved in various large-scale transactions such as Vodafone/ Mannesmann, Veba/Viag, EADS, and DaimlerChrysler/ Mitsubishi Motors/ Hyundai Motor.
Marcus Schenck joined Goldman Sachs from McKinsey in 1997. He became a Managing Director in 2001 and a Partner in 2002. He holds a master degree in economics from Bonn and Berkeley and earned a PhD at the University of Cologne.
He can be reached at: marcus.schenck@gs.com
Patrick Schmidt
Patrick Schmidt, author of "Understanding American and German Business Cultures, " is a cross-cultural consultant and trainer, living in Düsseldorf. The focus of his seminars is international personnel work, cooperation in multinational teams and transfer of management methods. Further information about his work can be found on his website www.agcc.de.
For comments and questions, write to: pschmidt.de@t-online.de
Volker Schmidt
Volker Schmidt is Principal at the Munich office of The Riverside Company. Prior to joining Riverside in 2003 he worked eight years as a management consultant for The Boston Consulting Group. Volker Schmidt earned a Master of Industrial Engineering from the University of Karlsruhe and also holds an MBA from Stanford University.
He can be reached at: vos@riversidecompany.com
Susanne Schreiber
Susanne Schreiber is a senior associate of Lovells in Munich. She is specialized in corporate and tax law and joined Lovells in 2002 as lawyer after her bar exam. Her work primarily focuses on advising national and international clients on tax issues in domestic and cross-border M&A and private equity transactions, in particular on the development and implementation of acquisition finance structures. She further advises on tax aspects in business restructuring scenarios. After having successfully passed the exams required for attaining the tax specialist solicitor (Fachanwalt für Steuerrecht) qualification in 2003, she will qualify as tax advisor in 2005/2006.
She can be reached at: susanne.schreiber@lovells.com
Georg Christopher Schweiger
Georg Christopher Schweiger heads the Ernst & Young Transaction Advisory Services - Global Financial Services team in Germany and is responsible for the delivery of Corporate Finance services, including M&A to German financial services clients (e.g. banks, insurance companies, leasing companies, fund managers). Christopher has almost twenty years experience in investment banking assisting many clients with domestic and cross-border transactions.
Prior to joining Ernst & Young, Chris was Vice President - Head of Origination Western Europe at DZ BANK, London, where he was responsible for client relationships with corporates, financial institutions and sovereigns in Western Europe. Previously he worked in the Corporate Finance divisions of Hypo Vereinsbank and UBS Warburg.
Christopher holds degrees in business administration and law and has published a number of articles relating to mergers & acquisitions, banking, corporate finance and is author of a book on the European Central Bank.
He can be reached at: christopher.schweiger@de.ey.com
Thomas Schwingeler
Thomas Schwingeler is a Managing Director and Co-Head of Mergers & Acquisitions Germany of Deutsche Bank.
He began his M&A career at Goldman Sachs in London in 1991. After business school and some time at Merrill Lynch, Thomas Schwingeler rejoined Goldman Sachs in New York focussing on US and Latin American M&A, and moving to the Frankfurt office early 2000. Beginning in 2001 he spent three years at Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein as Co-Head of the Transactions Execution Group. He joined Deutsche Bank in January 2005 and is based in Frankfurt. Thomas has an MBA from Harvard Business School and a BA from Yale University.
Jörg Sellmann
Jörg Sellmann is Degussa's Global Head of M&A since the inception of the new degussa in 2001. His main recent responsibilities have been the formation and expansion of Degussa's M&A group in Düsseldorf, New York and Shanghai as well as the execution of the divestment program after the merger of Degussa-Hüls and SKW into today's degussa. This process resulted in some 20 transactions and the spin-off of approx. €7 bn in revenue.
Mr. Sellmann was also the Head of M&A of the predecessor companies Degussa-Hüls AG from 1999 to 2000 and Hüls AG from 1998 to 1999. Previously he spent approx. 5 years in cross-border Investmentbanking at West Merchant Bank in London and Düsseldorf from 1993 to 1997. Mr. Sellmann is a board member of Polymer Latex which is owned by TowerBrook Capital Partners LLC, as well as a member of the "M&A DAX 13" round.
He holds an MBA (Diplom Kaufmann) from Münster University and is a certified banking apprentice (Deutsche Bank).
Douglas Squeo
Director at MindFolio Chicago and responsible for the firm's activities in industrial, business-to-business and medical professional markets.
His entire 30-year professional career has focused on marketing and supporting the development of customer-focused business strategies. He has particular expertise in competitive positioning and product development and has been a key player and practitioner in the evolutionary development of computer-based data collection and market modeling methods. He consults with Fortune 500 or equivalent clients, divided evenly between Europe and North America; the majority of his extensive European experience is with German clients over the past 20 years.
Dr. Rainer Stadler
Partner of Linklaters Oppenhoff & Rädler, Munich office.
Rainer Stadler, born 1962, is mainly focused on the tax-oriented restructuring of groups, structuring of national and international M&A transactions, and tax-efficient structuring of opportunity funds and investments in such funds. Stadler, who joined the firm (then: Oppenhoff & Rädler) in 1994, being partner since 1999, has gained high recognition in the market for his efficient, targeted and client-oriented approach. He is regular lecturer at conventions and seminars.
He can be reached at: rainer.stadler@linklaters.com
Dr. Lothar Steinebach
Dr. Lothar Steinebach is Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Henkel KGaA (Düsseldorf, Germany) since July 2003 and General Counsel since January 2005.
He began his career with Henkel as an attorney in the Law Department in 1980 and moved into Finance being appointed Corporate Vice President Finance & Controlling in 1995 reporting to the CFO.
Before that, in 1979, he worked as an Assistant Professor at the Institute for International and Comparative Law of the University of Cologne. From 1977 to 1978, he attended a graduate law program at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, finishing with an LLM degree. From 1974 through 1977, he completed his legal education with the Second State Examination. From 1969 through 1974, he studied law at the University of Mainz, specializing in Conflicts of Law and Comparative Law and finishing with the First State Examination.
Lothar Steinebach is a German national born in Wiesbaden (Germany). At Henkel KGaA he was involved in many major transactions, acquisitions and joint ventures, particularly after 1985 when Henkel had issued preference shares which were traded at the stock exchange. Transactions involved parties in the United States, Japan and Brazil in addition to Germany and other European countries.
Dr. Martin Sura
Martin Sura leads Lovells' German competition law practice and is based in the firm's Dusseldorf office. He trained with the firm in 1994, qualified in 1995 and became a partner in 2001.
Martin Sura's main field of activity is merger control work, both before national authorities, in particular the German Bundeskartellamt, and the EC Commission. He is also regularly advising clients in cartel investigations and is involved in competition litigation both before the European Courts in Luxemburg and German courts.
He can be reached at: martin.sura@lovells.com
Konrad J. von Szczepanski
Konrad J. von Szczepanski joined Alcoa in July 2002 as director of strategic analysis based in the New York City. He is responsible for providing leadership and support to Alcoa's businesses in strategic analysis, strategy development, and implementation. Prior to joining Alcoa, he was a Vice President of The Boston Consulting Group, where he consulted to Fortune 500 companies and their equivalents outside the United States, focusing on the plant building, construction, and metals & mining industries. Konrad holds a Ph.D. in physics from Stuttgart University in Germany. He received an M.B.A. in 1994 from INSEAD, France.
Heinz Hermann Thiele
Chairman of The Executive Board and majority shareholder of Knorr-Bremse AG. Heinz Hermann Thiele, born 1941 in Mainz/Germany, joined the Knorr-Bremse group as legal clerk of the patent department in 1969. After several steps in the group as head of the legal department, head of sales of the commercial vehicle brakes division and head of the commercial vehicle brakes division he was elected Head of Sales of what was then Knorr-Bremse GmbH. In 1985 he was appointed to the Board of Knorr-Bremse AG and also in 1985 he became a majority shareholder of Knorr-Bremse due to a management buy out. Since 1987 he is appointed as Chairman of the Executive Board of Knorr-Bremse AG. During the last 20 years he developed Knorr-Bremse from a European to an international group always focusing on the creation of customer value added.
Ulf M. Tworeck
Mr. Tworeck is based in Frankfurt, Germany and works with leadership teams in German-based mergers on organizational redesign and synergy/restructuring implementation issues. He is a partner with Mercer Delta Organizational Consulting in Europe and heads the MercerMerge initiative in Germany.
Mr. Tworeck has been working both for strategic buyers and private equity firms on their European acquisitions for the past 15 years, after assignments in New York and London.
He can be reached at: ulf.tworeck@mercerdelta.com
Helmuth L. Uder
Helmuth L. Uder is Managing Principal and European Go to Market Alliance Manager at Towers Perrin based in Frankfurt. In this position he is responsible for all activities within the European market linked to ExcellerateHRO, the HR outsourcing joint venture of Towers Perrin and EDS.
As a member of the worldwide Mergers & Acquisition team of Towers Perrin he also leads cross-border projects in M&A with a focus on the transformation of the HR function. He acts as trusted advisor and client relationship manager for some of Towers Perrin's most important multinational clients headquartered in Germany.
Dr. Rohit Verma
Associate Professor of Operations Management and Thayne Robson Faculty Fellow at the David Eccles School of Business, University of Utah (Salt Lake City, USA).
He is also a co-founder, chief scientific advisor for MindFolio and managing partner in its office in Salt Lake City. His current research interests include Product/Service Design, Innovation & Process Improvement, and Operations/Marketing interrelated issues.
Rohit has written more than 50 articles and over 75 conference papers in including the California Management Review, Cornell Quarterly, Decision Sciences, Journal of Operations Management, Journal of Product Innovation Management, Journal of Service Research, MIT Sloan Management Review, Omega, Production and Operations Management.
Marianne Waldenmaier
Marianne Waldenmaier has been partner with Linklaters Oppenhoff & Rädler in the Employment and Company Pension Department since 1994.
Education: After finalising law studies at University of Munich (LMU) she completed the I. Juristische Staatsexamen (First Legal State Examination) in 1985 and the II. Juristische Staatsexamen (Second Legal State Examination) in 1988. In addition, she is qualified as specialist (Fachanwalt) in labour law.
Experience: Company pensions (in particular counselling on external funding of pension plans, CTA issues), re-organisation of companies, employment advice on domestic and international acquisitions, pre and post-merger restructuring and integration, transfers of business and outsourcing, reductions in staff and negotiations of social compensation plans, advice on collective bargaining issues and industrial relations, employee benefits and stock options, management service agreements, co-determination on management level, employment litigation.
Dr. Christoph Walther
Dr. Walther is founder and CEO of CNC AG, which is headquartered in Munich, Germany. Prior to CNC, he was Senior Vice President and Head of Communications at
DaimlerChrysler, having run the communications department at Daimler-Benz before the company merged. He joined Daimler-Benz in 1995 from Reemtsma Cigarettenfabrik GmbH, then an independent cigarette manufacturer and No. 5 worldwide, where he was responsible for Public Affairs and Communications, and served as General Legal Counsel. Since 2001 he is a guest lecturer at various universities in the US, France and Germany.
Dr. Walther studied law in Munich and international law in Geneva, Switzerland. He received his doctorate on a thesis on "Campaign Law." As Draeger-Fellow, he also studied at Harvard University and at INSEAD, Fontainebleau, France.
For further information about CNC, please refer to our website www.cnc-communications.com.
Dr. Jürgen Weber
Chairman of The Supervisory Board, Deutsche Lufthansa AG and Federal Commissioner for Foreign Investment in Germany
Jürgen Weber, born 1941 in Lahr/Germany, has gained international recognition as airline executive because of the successful restructuring, strategic realignment and turnaround of the German airline. He became one of the founders of the Star Alliance and the driving force of this global partnership of 16 leading international airlines. Weber, who holds an honorary doctorate in engineering of Stuttgart University, joined Lufthansa in 1967 and became member of its board in 1989. He served as Lufthansa CEO from 1991 until 2003 when he was elected chairman of the company's supervisory board. Weber was appointed Federal Commissioner for FDI in Germany in 2003.
Dr. Thomas W. Wessely
Dr. Thomas W. Wessely is a partner of Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer.
Having studied in Bonn, Montpellier/France and Fordham/New York, he is a German Rechtsanwalt and based in the firm's Brussels office. Since his admission to the bar in 1997, his work has focussed on European, German and international competition and antitrust law. He has advised clients in merger control proceedings before the European Commission and national competition authorities, in German and European cartel investigations and in the structuring of distribution systems. He also represented clients in antidumping proceedings before the European Commission.
Thomas has published numerous articles on competition law issues and is a contributor to two leading competition law commentaries.
He can be contacted at thomas.wessely@freshfields.com.
Dr. Axel Wieandt
Axel Wieandt is Global Head of Corporate Development (AfK) (since 2000) and Global Head of Corporate Investments (CI) (since 2003) of Deutsche Bank AG.
He joined Deutsche Bank Group in Frankfurt in 1998 as Deputy Global Head of Corporate Strategy (1998-1999) and subsequently became Managing Director of Deutsche Asset Management Europe GmbH/Deutsche Asset Management International GmbH, Frankfurt am Main (1999-2000).
Axel Wieandt started his professional career at McKinsey & Company, Inc., Düsseldorf/ Germany and Boston/USA (Top Management Consulting in the Financial Services and Media Industry) (1993-1997), followed by one year at Morgan Stanley Ltd. & Co., London/UK (M&A/Corporate Finance) (1997-1998).
He holds a master's degree and a doctorate in Business Administration from the Koblenz School of Corporate Management (WHU), Vallendar/Germany (1990, 1993) and a "Master of Management" degree from the J. L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University Evanston, IL./USA (1992). He is a member of the international Kellogg Alumni Advisory Board and Lecturer in Financial Intermediation at WHU.
J. Christopher Winckler
Chris Winckler is a senior associate at Lovells practicing in the New York office. He specializes in international capital markets and has US corporate transactional experience advising purchasers and sellers in merger and acquisition transactions and also has extensive experience in the field of international securities offerings for which he has represented issuers, underwriters and corporate trustees in public and private equity and debt offerings. Chris also advises companies on US corporate government matters and SEC compliance.
Chris Winckler earned his Juris Doctor degree from Pepperdine University School of Law in 1997 after graduating with a Bachelor of Science degree in international business from California State University Long Beach in 1994. He joined Lovells in October 2000 after working as an associate beginning in 1998. He is licensed to practice in New York and California.
He can be reached at: chris.winckler@lovells.com
Dr. Gernot Wunderle
Gernot Wunderle is Managing Director at goetzpartners Corporate Finance and Head of the Media and Real Estate Practice.
Gernot joined goetzpartners (formerly CEA) in 1994. He managed numerous divestitures, mergers and acquisitions. Prior to goetzpartners, he gained experience in the media and communications sectors working as a consultant in the media and privatization department of Roland Berger & Partner. Previously, he was managing director of a professional publishing house.
Gernot studied business administration in Munich, graduated in 1991 with honors and earned his doctorate from the University of Innsbruck in strategic management with a thesis on refocusing strategies for diversified companies.
He is also a lecturer in media finance at the Bavarian Academy of Marketing (BAW).
Ruth Zehetmeier-Müller
Ruth Zehetmeier-Müller is a partner at Lovells in Munich, Germany. Her focus is on corporate and tax law. She was admitted to the bar in 1976. She qualified as a specialist tax lawyer (Fachanwalt für Steuerrecht) (1981) and further qualified as a tax advisor (Steuerberater) (1982). As a specialist tax lawyer and tax advisor she worked with a leading international accountancy firm for several years prior to joining Lovells. She advises on both corporate and tax issues in connection with mergers and acquisitions, private equity and venture capital transactions, and the formation and reorganization of companies, in particular drop-downs, spin-offs and mergers.
She can be reached at: ruth.zehetmeier-mueller@lovells.com
Dr. Klaus Zumwinkel
Dr. Klaus Zumwinkel is Chairman of the Supervisory Boards of Deutsche Telekom AG and Deutsche Postbank AG, as well as member of the Supervisory Boards of Deutsche Lufthansa AG, Karstadt Quelle AG and Morgan Stanley (USA).
Klaus Zumwinkel, born December 15, 1943 in Rheinberg, started his management training at the University of Münster, achieved a Master of Science at the Wharton School in Philadelphia in 1971 and was awarded a Ph.D. by the University of Münster in 1973.
He then worked at McKinsey Consulting where he became a member of the worldwide management team. In 1985, his path took him to Quelle AG, where he served as a member of the Management Board and later CEO.
In 1990, Zumwinkel accepted the German federal government's offer to convert the thennational, deficit-ridden public authority Deutsche Post into a successful enterprise. In fiscal year 2004, Deutsche Post World Net, with 380, 000 employees, generated revenue of 43 billion euros.
Randy H. Zwirn
Randy H. Zwirn was named President and Chief Executive Officer of Siemens Westinghouse Power Corporation in October of 1998. Mr. Zwirn was also appointed to the Group Executive Board of the Power Generation Group of Siemens AG.
Prior to his current position, Mr. Zwirn served as president of Westinghouse Power Generation serving as president as of December 1995, and was responsible for all Power Generation global operations.
Mr. Zwirn has spent most of his 28 years with Siemens Westinghouse and Westinghouse Electric in various positions of increasing responsibility within the Power Generation Group. In 1976 he joined the international division of Westinghouse Electric Company, New York City.
Mr. Zwirn is a graduate of Brooklyn College and lives in Longwood, Florida.