Dr.-Ing. Thoralf Mees

-Global Procurement strategic Projects, processes and roll-outs -Spend under Management optimization and controlling -Global sourcing processes definition and tools evaluation as well as optimization for category management -Global roll-out of Processes and key projects in indirect procurement for Hilti organizations in North-America, Europe and Asia Pacific for Market organizations, Manufacturing as well as Business Units

Creating of teaching- and learning material, scientific writing and discussions with Professors

-Teamlead of Direct Fastening Unit - Engineering -Operational Excellence in Manufacturing -Strategy development for Unit until 2030 -Lean and Kaizen improvements for serial production -Introduction of new Technologies and Products -Cost calculations and balancing of labor as well as invest -Solving a >15 year old challenge to enable future competitiveness -People development and structured problem solving

-Managing of Time to Money & Technology Projects, guidance for global production and R&D departments -Shopfloor organisation for component manufacturing, AIP planning and definition of deliverables etc.

Automating Object Detection in an industrial context for maintenance- and repair-support

Focus on Method Development for automatic- and autonomous driving. Setting requirements for the determining R&D requirements of automatic cars of level 2 (partial automation) and level 3 (conditional automation). Benchmarking of performance and forecasting of competition, cross-industry presight and implications. Implementation of method on product development of the early phase and adaption according to scientific causality. Requirements Engineering, Method Development and Validation

Representation of interests of all PhD Students at BMW e.g. on salary, contracts etc., Strategic Focus of PhD Students, Internal Organization of PhD Network at BMW and external connection with other OEMs, cooperation with Program Management, planning and coordinating of PhD task forces, monthly meetings, speakers and general administration etc.

Leadership and Personality Development for High Potentials in the Field of Engineering and Science

Consulting multinational Companies on Business Development, Product-Development, Financials, Process Efficiency, adressing new customers etc. Teamleader of small teams. Recruiting of new Students. Market Research etc. 2 Projects with BMW as well as one with the Unternehmertum and the Zeidler Stiftung. Focus on creativity techniques and implementing a reasonable solution for the clients. Working in teams and presentation of solutions to Management.

Research and Development of a Model and tool on Weak Signals in the early stage of Technologies

Head of Team Munich; Promoting the BAT on Campus; Internal Coordination; attending Bloomberg Workshops

Advisory Financial Services, Consulting a multinational bank. Implement FinRep and EBA Requirements. Multicurrency Accounting Issues and IT Implementation.

Valuations; Board Presentation-Slides; Due Diligence; Market Research; Usage of Tools (Bloomberg Terminal, ThomsonReutersOne etc.); Company Analysis

Doctorate in Mechanical Engineering / Department of Ergonomics together with the BMW Group

Consulting multinational Companies on Business Development, Product-Development, Financials etc. Teamleader of small teams. Recruiting of new Students. Market Research etc.

Bachelor + Master within 7 semesters (10 being the regular study time) - Focus on Corporate Finance, Banking, Risk Mgmt, Valuation as well as Pharma and Petrochemistry.

Corporate Finance, Valuation, Banking&Risk Management, Derivatives, Controlling, Chemistry

Jazz Posaune, Big Band, Ensembles