Philipp Schaffer

2024 Award: Most Valuable Player 2023 Award: Best Growth 2022 Award: Best Performing Team

Leading business development and sales in the DACH region across all consumer Industries (Retail & CPG, Telco & Media, Travel & Transport, Energy & Utility). Main portfolio focus: Cloud (Public, Hybrid and Multi-cloud), Managed IT Services (Big Data aaS, managed SAP, etc.) and Red Hat (OpenShift, Ansible, etc.).

EVRYTHNG, acquired by Digimarc, powering Avery Dennison's Digital Platform Janela, is an IoT SaaS company managing billions of digital identities in an intelligent IoT smart products cloud to connect consumer packaged goods to the Web and drive real-time applications. Funded by Cisco, Samsung, Sway ventures and Atomico.

Multi-million USD budget responsibility; international team leadership; global master service agreements in Apparel, FMCG, CPG and Retail. Enterprise consultative selling of SaaS, PaaS, consulting and hardware. Consumer experience platforms and connected products production. Industry boards: EHI, METRO solutions team, RFFC and GS1 Germany; Co-Chair of RFID tagging guidelines for Footwear, Apparel and Retail. Locations: Germany / Malaysia / Singapore.

Budget responsibility multi million USD Cross-functional team leadership Enterprise level consultative selling of Loss Prevention, Brand Protection, Consumer Engagement, In-store Merchandise and Supply Chain Visibility solution Solution, service and product portfolio development Location: Cologne Bonn Region

Budget responsibility multi million USD Global sales and business development Cross-functional team leadership Development of value-added services and product portfolio Implementation of a global logistics network for instant drop-shipments Implementation of global network of field application engineers based in USA, Germany and Malaysia Location: Penang, Malaysia

Multi million USD budget responsibility Sales and business development across south-east asia M&A of entity in Brazil Location: Central Singapore

Siemens High Potential Program, 2006–2008. Shanghai, China / Detroit, USA / Nuremberg, Germany. 2007: Project Management, expansion of Northwest Terminal Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport; Siemens Global Marketing Strategy for the Sector Development Board Airports. 2006: Project Management, Shanghai; post-merger integration of Voest Alpine Group (VAIAS/VATI) into Siemens I&S.

News anchor for international news in German and English language on all public Slovene radio stations. Location: Ljubljana, Slovenia

Synchronized the bi-weekly “Slowenien Magazin” broadcasted on 3-sat, ORF and RTV 1.

Industriebetriebslehre (Industrial Business Administration), International Management (BRIC), International Studies (Anglo-American Cultures)