Swipe the record. The three UBE entries overlap: the
polyamide territory ran from 2015, and from 2018 the commercial excellence unit and the venture
ran alongside it. The MBA ran from 2019 to 2021, in parallel with all three.
EF Education First
Commercial Director, Latin America
Aug 2025 to now · Zurich
Commercial lead for a large revenue region, on the EF global leadership team. Six country
product managers and a sales organisation of around sixty. P&L co-monitored with the
regional controller; pricing and margin owned by finance. I took over a region where
growth had stalled, and inside a year it was growing again.
EF Education First
Commercial Director, Germany and the Nordics
Feb 2024 to Aug 2025 · Zurich
Germany, Denmark, Sweden, Finland and Norway. Grew topline double digits inside a year, and
customer lifetime value rose with it. Built the weekly revenue forecast that became the
operating cadence.
Toyo Ink Group
Director Sales and Marketing, Europe
Mar 2023 to Feb 2024 · Germany
Built the first European organisation for Toyo Ink’s printing-inks business, from a
blank page, against entrenched German incumbents, then recommended shutting it down, because
it would not scale.
StepStone
Head of B2B Marketing
Apr to Oct 2022 · Düsseldorf
A 22-person B2B marketing organisation on a multi-million-euro budget. Stood up the
company-wide voice-of-customer programme and reported what it found. Left seven months in,
over what to do with the answer.
Change & Challenge
Co-founder, corporate venture
2018 to 2022 · alongside UBE
A B2B platform venture started inside UBE. BASF, ExxonMobil, Mitsui and Lanxess joined it.
Toyo Ink was an investor, and its CEO approached me from it to build their first European
organisation.
UBE Corporation Europe
Commercial Excellence Leader
Jul 2018 to Apr 2022 · Düsseldorf
Founded the commercial excellence unit from zero, a cross-functional team of ten across the
United States, Mexico, Brazil, Spain and Germany.
UBE Corporation Europe
Business Development Manager, Polyamide
Aug 2015 to Apr 2021 · Düsseldorf
Opened Eastern Europe, the CIS and Israel from no footprint. The territory was €30M+ in
annual regional revenue at handover. €14M of that was the polyamide line I carried
myself. Share of wallet at key accounts went from 10% to 82%.
VISI/ONE
International Account Manager, Automotive
2014 to 2015 · Germany
BMW, Audi and Toyota accounts. Opened Latin America from no presence and grew regional sales
230%.
WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management
MBA, with Columbia Business School
Thesis: Avoiding Customer Theatre in B2B
The thesis subject became the job: measuring what a customer will actually pay for against
what they are actually getting.