Hardy Rau

I have founded blunaranja capital to help SMEs in IT and Business Services with Corporate Finance transactions: SELL. BUY. Private Placement. Together with my international partners, we take away the pain and the hassle of your transactions with our professional M&A services. Geographically, we are focusing on Western Europe, the US, and Latin America.

Armin L Rau - opening doors. making you grow: This is my coaching business for small & medium sized enterprises in Consulting and IT. I help you to find new clients, to make more revenues with existing clients and to grow your business strategically www.arminlrau.com

ONEtoONE Corporate Finance Group is a Global Digital Investment Bank, specialized in M&A advisory, serving the middle-market.

At Swisscom I served as Managing Director EMENA / LatAm of the wholly owned subsidiary sicap that developed applications for mobile operators. I helped mobile operators to run their business more efficiently, reduce customer churn, and introduce innovative mobile payment solutions for their customers. In addition, I managed sicap France with 70 employees and successfully implemented two re-structuring programmes.

General Manager of the German operation of Jefferson Wells (wholly owned subsidiary) based in Frankfurt. High growth strategy for a business that concentrates on consulting in Financial Performance and Risk Management. Innovative business model that delivers better returns and measurable results with only experienced consultants. Pragmatic and hands-on with an immediate effect on our client's business

Build up 3rd party sales for Euro 2bn partnership BPO contract with German financial institution. Design and implement sales and marketing strategy, select team, sell, drive aggressive growth. Grew volume from €0 to €3.5m within 2.5 years, winning 12 new clients.

Leadership of an account management team with 12 direct reports to define and implement SBS's Market Share Strategy in the German Insurance Sector. Responsible for €80m+ of sales with clear P&L targets. Won €23m outsourcing contract with Top5 German insurance group.

Leading International Software Development projects; UNIX systems

Software development in Prolog and C

Lecturer on innovation Investor in various start-ups Founder of blunaranja GmbH

Honorary Chairman of the German alumni association Dissertation on organic business change

Computational Linguistics, English, Romance Languages