Christian Schwaiger

As Managing Director, I am responsible for running DACH, CEE and Russia.

• Build centralized European management team • Running Sales, Marketing and Business Planning organization accross Europe • Ownership and responsibility of P&L • Ensure product availability and appropriate stock level for Eurpean market • Defined and implemented European Go to Market strategy • Growth of volume and solution business • Implemented new CRM-System and automated marketing tool

Providing network solutions for enterprise and service provider market P&L responsibility for sales regions including 20 employees Built 2-Tier channel model Managed regions became top performer in EMEA, as noted in the company's annual report

Within my 11.5 years at Cisco, I held different positions. From technical Pre-Sales I moved into European marketing. For 3.5 years I was employed as Product Line Manager at Cisco's Headquarter in San Jose, CA. In my last 3 years I was responsible to establish Cisco as main player in the industrial market (Internet of Things) in Europe by creating and expanding customer relationships with world-class organisations such as Rockwell, SAP, BMW, Fiat, GlaxoSmithKline, BASF, Proctor & Gamble, and Anheuser Busch.

Previous professional experience includes roles as System Engineer for Newbridge Networks and Software Development Engineer for Siemens Nixdorf, both posts in Munich, Germany. Details are available upon request.

Graduate Engineer in Electrical Engineering specialized in dataprocessing, telecommunication and image processing