Andreas Schild

Responsibility for 2 API production plants, a Food & Pharma Formulation plant, a Packaging Center and 3 support teams

Business Unit Industrial and Consumer Specialties Sales 1.5 bn CHF, 2`000 FTE, 16 manufacturing sites globally - Translate business into operations strategy - Manage Technology project portfolio - Lead and act as Champion for key operational projects - Push and track global progress of key initiatives like Operational and Innovation Excellence - Scope, set-up and follow-up investment projects globally

Business Unit Masterbatches sales 1.1 bn CHF, 3`100 employees, 55 sites globally • Supported roll-out of Clariant Operational Excellence • Lead Lean Sigma Black Belt projects with focus on SCM • Strengthended R&D network as Masterbatch Global R&D Coordinator

Clariant Corporate sales 8.5 bn CHF, 21`000 FTE, 120 manufacturing sites • Developed and implemented manufacturing network optimization strategy: production transfers, make-vs-buy decisions, site consolidations • Implemented global Continuous Improvement initiative

former Degussa AG; Multinational Specialty Chemical Company 11.8 bn. € turnover and 44`000 employees in 2006 • Responsible for the production of technical and Pharma grade nano-scaled metal oxides; 170 FTE, 25 production lines • Initiated and carried out optimization projects which lead to significant OPEX reduction • Lead investment projects in the range of 40 mio. CHF • Intoduction of cGMP for 3 production lines

Lead process efficiency improvement projects; implementation in production sites in Germany, Belgium, France, USA and Japan

Developed a CFD simulation tool to optimize fumed oxide processes in cooperation with Evonik Industries