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Positions held, projects closed.

We have sat in your chair and in your subsidiary's, on both sides of the corridor. We describe our work without naming clients.

Because we did it wrong too, and we have been seeing for more than 20 years why companies are doing it wrong.
Markus Schädlich, asked at a symposium in Amsterdam in 2010 why CBI is better than others
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Roles held and projects closed.

Listed automotive supplier (SDAX)

Interim President Asia, taking Asia through the IPO.

Interim
Listed automotive supplier (MDAX)

Board responsibility for Asia; restructuring of the Asian business.

Board
German automotive supplier

Japan market-entry roadmap and the acquisition of a Japanese business, initiated and implemented by CBI.

M&A · Market entry
Two automotive suppliers in Japan

VP HR & General Administration.

HR
A listed German group, 2026

Strategy process, efficiency drivers and AI across all divisions, with the managers holding the pen.

Strategy
Japanese companies in Europe

Organisational development and M&A processes for Japanese-owned companies in Germany and Switzerland.

HR · M&A

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Industries

From family-owned suppliers to listed groups.

Automotive suppliers
Machinery & automation
Medtech & life science
Energy & renewables
Electronics & semiconductors
Logistics services
Chemicals & materials
Japanese companies in Europe