Florian Kolb

Florian joined Intertrust as Chief Commercial Officer and General Manager Energy after a 15-year career in a series of business leadership roles within the European energy industry. He is responsible for all product sales, corporate and business development. Intertrust provides trusted computing products to enable private data exchanges. Intertrust has 150 employees and is headquartered in Silicon Valley. Shareholders are WiL (SV/Tokyo-based 800m VC fund), Phillips, Sony, Panasonic, Origin Energy and E.ON.

Florian led the strategic investment of RWE/innogy (now E.ON) into Intertrust and served several years on the board of the company.

Florian spent five years as CEO/Managing Director of innogy’s (initially RWE) Silicon Valley innovation group. He led U.S. strategic investments and innovation activities, aimed at assembling technology assets for data-driven business models for the energy industry. He also incubated internal start-ups, which led to the creation of DigiKoo and Livisi. Florian founded Free Electrons (https://freeelectrons.org), a global accelerator program operated by a consortium of ten international utilities.

Florian was appointed in 2013 by the Executive Board of RWE AG to manage the 2.5bn+ USD group-wide transformation and result improvement program. He was responsible for the overall program management of all major central and decentral transformation and efficiency initiatives of the RWE Group, reporting directly to the Executive Board of RWE AG (CEO and CFO). Florian was also co-leading the design of a comprehensive lean program for the entire RWE organization touching around 45.000 employees.

Florian ran and restructured RWE's Benelux shared support and services company (EUR 60m revenues, 250 FTE). This role was mainly driven by substantial restructuring and cost reduction efforts (cost reduction of 38% and FTE reduction of 47%), operational efficiency and change programs, outsourcing of non-core activities and migration of local SAP systems to group-wide SAP platforms. Florian was responsible for all accounting, procurement, HR service, infrastructure and service management functions.

Florian was responsible for the post-merger integration of the 7bn+ USD cross-border acquisition of Essent (Netherlands, Belgium) by RWE AG. Essent is the biggest utility company in the Netherlands and employed around 6.000 people. This included the preparation of all required actions to realize integration and synergy targets, the merger of the existing Dutch RWE activities into Essent, the development and delivery of organizational blueprints, integration actions and assessment of financial implications.

Florian lead the preparation and execution of various transactions across the value chain of the RWE Group (oil & gas upstream, electricity production/power plants, trading, distribution/grid, electricity and gas retail). He lead and coordinated with CEO’s/CFO’s of RWE AG and RWE group companies and all relevant departments and managed 25 projects overall, mainly in the UK, Benelux and Russia. This included the management of decision proposals, presentation in board meetings of RWE AG and group companies.

senior manager for origination and execution of transactions (buy side & sell side) with enterprise values from € 50m to 500m advice and support of shareholders and management in the development and execution of M&A strategies (expansion, divestment, management buy-out) responsible for private equity sponsor coverage and key account initiatives automotive / electrical engineering sector program and related marketing initiatives initiation and development of new account relationships

responsible for set-up of Munich corporate finance branch office internal and external origination of deal flow (focus private equity, venture capital)

team move from Price Waterhouse Corporate Finance Beratung GmbH to Arthur Andersen

inhouse consulting Schoeller Group

Guest Lecturer 'The Quest for Sustainable Energy' Prof. Stefan Reichelstein

Executive Education in Strategy, Valuation and Lean Management

International Leadership Program

Unternehmensrechnung / Controlling; Wirtschaftspolitik; Finanzwissenschaft