Transportation

From 2002 to 2017

In total twelve years of professional experience and growth in the rolling stock/transportation sector
 within the Siemens AG Group.
Development of extensive expertise on a variety of individual sales and project
management functions in early years. In later years, the management of various teams up to the management of organizational units at various locations in Germany and Russia,
comprising of:

Commercial head of the global locomotive business unit

thus covering the entire value chain of engineering, production, sales and project management in Erlangen, Germany from September 2014 to March 2017:

Key highlights

CFO standards such as
  • Ensuring full transparency of the relevant business area across all countries and locations, with a particular focus on US business and Russia
  • Ensuring compliance with global policies and processes
  • Overseeing and validation of controlling for planning, budget and financial reporting
  • P&L and B/S
  • Risk management
  • Close interaction with different teams of experts such as accounting, treasury, tax, legal or human resources
Enabling the transformation from a project-oriented business model into a product-oriented business model
Focus area: development of solutions for all commercial aspects
within the value chain, which successfully enable the production
and sale of a locomotive as a ‘commodity’

Commercial head of the division Rail Systems Russia/
Central Asia at Siemens OOO, in Moscow, Russia

from September 2011 to August 2014 and thus being accountable for the financial part of sales, project management and maintenance for all types of rolling stock (high-speed and suburban trains, subways, light rail, and locomotives) in Russia and Central Asia.

Key highlights

CFO Standards, such as
  • Ensuring full transparency of the relevant business area across all countries of the region
  • Ensuring compliance with global policies and processes
  • Overseeing and validation of controlling for planning, budget and financial reporting
  • P&L and B/S
  • Risk management internally and externally
  • Close interaction with different teams of experts such as customs, compliance, accounting, treasury, tax, legal or human resources
Expansion of the team and further development of expertise of the regional financial organization to cover business growth in all required areas of expertise (e.B. commercial project management, controlling, service management, customs, currency management)
Active support of an international ERP system implementation
Successful handling of the monopoly customer RZD (Russian Railway Company)
Ensuring the local content supply chain including the purchase of essential core components of the vehicles via the newly founded joint venture Ural Locomotives (see M&A experience).

First managerial positions

2006 to 2008 Management of the segment ‘VAL’ (fully automated light subways) with projects mainly in France but also Asia
2007/2008 Special Assignment commercial management of the sales initiative “Mass Transit goes India”
2004 to 2006 leading commercial manager of a project bundle and the identical sub-segment for light rail projects in Hungary and Portuga

Individual contributor roles from 2002 till 2004

Managing and processing tenders for components, vehicles, and partly turnkey projects as well as negotiation of customer contracts
Responsibility for project cost calculations, risk and contract management including FIDIC conditions
Claim management and project procurement management
proper project and cost controlling and proper reporting on project development in international projects.