Martin Sägesser

Similor Group, Swiss market leader for sanitary fittings, a strategic Buy & Build acquisition of Madison Private Equity, is sold to the Spanish ROCA Group. Achievements of CEO: lead a cultural change, integration of 3 companies, strengthen portfolio and brands, accelerating innovation process, flexible single plant production, strongly increase of shareholder value, highly successful sale of Similor Group.

KRM produces dynamic storage and retrieval systems with core Production/R&D plant in Germany. Achievement of GM: cultural change, turnaround resulting in a profit improvement of 10 EBIT-points (process re-engineering, reducing personnel by 25% and purchasing costs significantly); invest CHF 10 Mio in automation and operational excellence programm Speed and generating innovation leads of new products and technologies (creating the basis for further growth of turnover and profits of another 50%).

Stadler Rail Group took over in 2000 from Adtranz a modern best-practice assembly plant in Berlin, Pankow. Supported the CEO of Stadler Rail Group to solve the management crisis of Stadler Pankow and to define to local strategy. Leaded to culture change and new assignments in the top-management.