Christoph Thiel

• Successfully integrated Versum Materials (1.37bn$ revenue and approx. 2.300 employees). Realized high double-digit-m€ synergies in my area of responsibility, significantly above target. • Responsible for four integration workstreams with global project management organization >50 people • Guided the commercial, R&D, supply chain & EQS workstreams on strategic direction, organizational design, and process & system harmonization, enabling today’s growth. • Merck CEO Award 2020 for the successful integration

• Team of 4 (DE, UK) • Ensured significant year-over-year growth of the organic electronics business; developed new business models together with customers & partners. • Strong emphasis on people management. Increased team engagement and performance in challenging environment.

• Developed OLED growth strategy (OP & SD) and presented successfully to executive board (GL). • Successfully set up a new concept for market & business intelligence and enabled decisions in the business field leadership e.g., on product & research portfolio structures, customer segmentation and competitive positioning.

• Integration of Sigma Aldrich: Integrated the legacy sales data and analysed it to develop country archetypes applied in the global commercial organizational structure of the combined Merck Life Sciences Business. • Life Sciences: Analysed & structured data by customers, applications, and local footprint used to realize a customer focused reorganization of the sales functions in Europe. • Supported the establishment of the Americas branch of Inhouse Consulting incl. a 5-months relocation to Boston.

Titel of the Thesis: Customer Orientation in B2B Innovations: A Case Study on the Substitution of Zinc Phosphate Metal Pretreatment

Erfahrungen im R&D Controlling; Scouting und Innovationsmanagement