Dr. Philipp Kreuter

Exploring strategic leadership opportunities at Director or VP level, following a successful Senior Director role in global R&D. Focused on identifying impactful roles where innovation, technology, and business strategy converge to drive transformation and sustainable growth.

• Led a global R&D organization of 130+ employees and €40M budget, overseeing R&D service teams and global pre-development • Overhauled research framework, leading to a 50% increase in invention disclosures & multiple new product developments • Scaled global teams for analytics, simulation, data science & AI • Initiated a micro-LED program to secure competitiveness & safeguard IP • Facilitated acquisition of a multi-million-euro grant by providing strategic support and resources

• Led post-merger R&D integration, harmonizing governance, processes & roadmaps to unlock multi-million-euro synergy savings • Aligned R&D strategy across business units, streamlining board-level presentations & enabling executive decision-making • Drove strategic partnerships & investment opportunities by screening technologies and startups • Gained exposure to P&L management, global operations & procurement through participation in strategic board meetings, manufacturing reviews & supplier negotiations

• Led a 15-member, multi-location prototyping team with €3M budget • Transitioned team into a systems & application focused unit, maintaining high morale amid corporate restructuring • Leveraged innovation lab capabilities to produce high-margin LED solutions for medical tech • Steered multi-project development of a standardized automotive LED-based product platform adopted globally, generating multi-million-euro revenues • Pioneered agile project management, enhancing efficiency and project outcomes

• Developed novel simulation models to optimize micro-LED performance, achieving >100% efficiency gains and securing multiple patents • Managed technical alignment with customer engineering teams, ensuring precise modeling, accelerating progress & fostering long-term trust • Led seamless project transition by hiring and onboarding engineers to sustain knowledge transfer and development continuity

• Drove performance gains of LEDs, lasers, and solar cells by developing and applying advanced multi-physics simulation models • Spearheaded transition to distributed-memory simulations, maximizing resource utilization and accelerating development cycles • Automated and standardized simulation workflows, optimizing resource allocation, improving result quality, and increasing efficiency by over 50%

• Delivered business case analyses and regulatory insights to support client decision-making in fiber-optic infrastructure development • Led vendor selection for a scalable network monitoring solution, optimizing troubleshooting, capacity planning, and B2B service quality • Contributed to national telecommunications strategy, enhancing operational resilience, security readiness, and long-term scalability

• Developed and implemented a novel simulation framework for mode-locking dynamics in ultrafast semiconductor lasers • Lectured and mentored students in photonics and semiconductor physics, while supervising lab assignments • Authored and co-authored multiple research papers in collaboration with academic partners • Coordinated cross-institutional collaboration within the research project

Strategy, marketing, finance, business management

Semiconductor optoelectronics, modeling & simulation, software development Thesis: "Modeling of Electrically Pumped Vertical-External-Cavity Surface-Emitting Lasers"

Biomedical image processing, communication networks, microelectronics

Linear and nonlinear control engineering, signal processing

Grade: 1.1 Semiconductor physics, RF engineering, quantum mechanics, optoelectronics Thesis: "Monte-Carlo Simulation of Terahertz Quantum Cascade Laser Structures"

Grade: 1.1 Circuit theory, control engineering, optoelectronics, digital signal processing Thesis: "Transmit Multi-Stage Wiener Filter"