Dr. Ralf-Roman Rietz

Privately owned Chinese lubricant, equipment, and contract manufacturing company Responsibilities: corporate development / M&A and business development with focus on international customers Market segments: Aerospace, Automotive, Aviation, Electronics, Machinery, Marine, Military, etc.

German mid-sized lubricant company Responsibilities: site / operations management - P&L (budget targets and control) and capital expenditures responsibility / production facility set-up, procurement, manufacturing, quality assurance, logistics, applied technology, product management, new product development, sales support (bidding) Market segments: metal working fluids (mainly automotive)

Professional support of local and multinational chemical companies in China. Focus areas: - Improvement of production operations - Enhancement of innovation / new product development - Sourcing, supplier evaluation

Supervised multinational team Responsibilities: product development, technical sales, technical service, process technology for relocation of production Market segments: polymers, coatings & inks, synthetic lubricants, agrochemicals

(Chemical division of Henkel Group, carved out in 1999) 2001-2003: Manager Technical Service Coatings & Inks Additives at Cognis Japan Product management, technical service and product development 1999-2000: Assistant Manager Technical Service at San Nopco (JV Sanyo Chemicals and Henkel KGaA) Promotion of Henkel’s new additives, know-how transfer and technical service 1997-1998: Chemist Technical Service Coatings & Inks at Henkel Japan Application research on resin components and product introduction.

Steered project groups: development of scratch resistant coatings and electrochromic devices based on nanotechnology for automotive application etc.

International Research Laboratories Invention of new fluorescent polymers resulting in a patent (WO 9720877 “Production and Use of Poly(9,9’-spiro- bisfluorenes”)

Postdoctoral position funded by the Japanese Society for Promotion of Science Explorative research on electrochemical immuno assays in the group of Prof. Dr. M. Watanabe, Dept. of Chemistry

Finance; Thesis: “Effective Financial Due Diligence in Valuation of Chinese Firms – M&A"

Max-Planck Institute for Polymer Research (Mainz, Germany) Dissertation: “Relaxation and Glass Transition Properties of Ionene type Polyelectrolytes”

Specialization in polymer chemistry and physical chemistry Thesis: “2H-labelled Ionenes for the Characterization of Solid State Properties of Polyelectrolytes”