Dr. Matthias Hobbie

T R A N S F O R M I N G conventional solutions for food, beverage, pharma and beyond into resilient, resource-efficient and competitively differentiated platforms through technology-driven innovation and strategic partnership with start-ups

T R A N S F O R M I N G synthetic food and supplement ingredients portfolio into a competitive, high performing portfolio of natural outperformers for colors, flavors, extracts and coatings

T R A N S F O R M I N G sugar-rich and high-sodium product portfolios into healthier, nutritionally enhanced product portfolios across categories

T R A N S F O R M I N G portfolios of sugar-rich beverages and liquid foods towards healthier, nutritionally enhanced product portfolios across liquid product categories

T R A N S F O R M I N G portfolios of sugar-rich beverages into nutritionally enhanced product portfolios

· driving two digits revenue growth through delivery of technology unlocks for business segments and transformation into adjacent categories · Driving competitive advantage through new business development and transformation towards new business opportunities via coating and drying Solutions · Assignments in Brazil, South Corea, Japan and China

· Driving profitable growth via competitive advantage & technology unlocks within business segment coating and drying Solutions · Commercialization of Technology unlocks for business segment (e.g. "no label look" coating machine) · Assignments in Italy and USA

Driving Quality and/or productivity with industrial partners through process optimization, new technologies or process efficiency (Project management and process/new technology development: • Project and innovation manager for liquid (food) industrial process development: o Spraying processes, High Pressure Spay Extraction o Liquid – Liquid Extraction, Supercritical Extraction o Hops extraction, Decaffeination of coffee extract for soluble coffee • Simulation of fluid dynamics of two phase flow (CFD)

Driving Quality and/or productivity with industrial partners through process optimization, new technologies or process efficiency • Project and innovation manager for solids (food) industrial process development o Roasting, quenching and grinding process of coffee beans o High Pressure processing (Extraction, Decaffeination) o Post Pressure Volume Expansions, E.g. Tobacco, Polymers • Simulation of transient 3D heat transfer with latent energies (FEM) o chocolate processing o coffee roasting

Driving quality and productivity through process optimization for a new technology • Development of an innovative, environmental friendly, economic process for extraction of plasticizer from a PVDF-Separator of Lithium-Polymer-Batteries: o Closed Cycles, Solvent free Product o 600% improved performance compared to the alternative conventional process using organic solvents

DMAIC Phases of Six Sigma Project Management - Change Management - Lean Management - Graphical Data Analysis - Statistical Tests and Methods - Design of Experiments

DMAIC phases Six Sigma Project Management - Lean Management - Machine Capability - Process Capability - Quality control Charts - Measurement System Analysis - Design of Experiments

Rheology - Spraying processes - Extraction processes - High pressure processing - Supercritical processing

Fermentation of wildtype and modified strains for production of spezific enzymes

Process engineering - Chemical reaction engineering - Thermal separation technology - Particle technology - Bioengineering