Markus Hermes

- Group Supply Chain responsibility (> 4.000 employees at 16 branches in 12 countries) - Elaboration and implementation of long term supply chain concept to the group - Implementation of regional- and group S&OP processes. - Re-organization and change management along supply chain including stake-holding functions. - Recurrent alignment of global operations with regional management and local Heads of Supply Chain

- Strategic Process Management in alignment with Corporate General Management and Corporate Product Management: Definition and implementation of operational processes in regions (14 Branches in 12 Countries) incl. Training, Quality and Best Practices. - Responsibility for the Group Technology Management: Implementing technology roadmaps. Coordination of cooperation's with external R&D partners (CSEM, BMBF, KPMG, ETH Zürich) -Disciplinary R&D responsibility as Head of a Robotics Team in Switzerland

-Lead of Sub-Departments Software Development and Physics ( 30 Software Engineers, Physicists, Mathematicians). Research and Development on NDT techniques and algorithms for signal evaluation

- responsible for technical concept and implementation of new products - improvement of existing products - product presentation to clients and training of all involved operational processes. - personal product roll-out in international projects (England, Spain, Venezuela, USA, Malaysia , Thailand, Australia, Brazil)

Development of algorithms for data gathering and data evaluation as a member of R&D

Research and Development on NDT technique and algorithms for signal evaluatio

Artificial Intelligence, Neural Networks,