Our references
In CEO positions, we bring the highest individual entrepreneurial skills. Alternatively, we complement the strengths of existing management teams to maximise their impact, whether we work on an advisory or an interim basis.
The partners of the HAAG Management Group and the members of our management resources network have many years of operational experience in top management positions in international companies. A targeted selection process ensures a first class quality with deep knowledge in our preferred sectors.
Here is an excerpt from our track records:
| Function | Specific tasks |
Sector | Location/ HQ |
Company turnover | Duration/ years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CEO | Efficiency improvement and growth |
Cleaning machinery | GER | Turnover € 450 m |
3 |
| CEO | Restructuring/transfer of manufacturing capacity/IPO | Industrial sewing machines | GER | Turnover € 70 m |
4.5 |
| CEO | Restructuring and new products | Machine tools | CH | Turnover € 45 m |
2 |
| CEO | Efficiency improvement and growth | Ventilators | GER | Turnover € 25 m |
2 |
| CEO | Growth and margin improvement |
Woodworking | UA | Turnover € 200 m |
4 |
| CEO | Turnaround/ new products/ growth |
Energy supply | GER | Turnover € 200 m |
4 |
| CEO | Turnaround and growth | Woodworking tools | GER | Turnover € 120 m |
3 |
| CEO | Restructuring | Electrical engineering | GER | Turnover € 120 m |
2 |
| CEO | Start-up / growth in China |
Industrial sewing machines | CN/ GER |
Turnover € 20 m |
2 |
| CEO | Growth and margin improvement |
Lighting | GER | Turnover € 17 m |
2 |
| CEO | Start-up and growth | Machine tools | CN/ USA |
Turnover < € 10 m |
3 |
| CEO | Start-up and growth | Automotive supplies / plastics | FR/ GER |
Turnover € 1500 m |
1 |
| CEO/MBI | International growth | Automotive supplies/ specialised machinery |
GER | Turnover € 6 m |
ongoing |
| CFO/CEO | Innovation and growth | Printing | GER | Turnover € 10 m |
8.5 |
| Board member overseeing sales and marketing |
Growth and margin improvement |
Power train engineering | GER | Turnover € 1.100 m |
4 |
| CTO | Restructuring of product portfolio/new products | Machinery for tobacco industry | GER | Turnover € 700 m |
3.5 |
| CTO | Efficiency improvement/new products/growth | Packaging machinery | GER | Turnover € 400 m |
8 |
| CTO | Interims management | Machine tools | GER | Turnover € 100 m |
ongoing |
| COO | Restructuring and productivity improvement | Hydraulics | GER | Turnover € 190 m |
3.5 |
| COO | Restructuring and efficiency improvement | Technical trading | GER | Turnover € 165 m |
3 |
| European managing director | Efficiency improvement and growth | Plastics/electrical engineering | GER/ CH |
Turnover € 100 m |
9 |
| Managing director with responsibility for sales and marketing | Growth and margin improvement | Printing | GER | Turnover € 700 m |
2 |
| Managing director with responsibility for sales and marketing | Efficiency improvement and growth | Metal cutting machines | GER/ USA |
Turnover € 120 m |
3 |
| Managing director with responsibility for sales and marketing | International growth | Textile machinery | GER | Turnover € 20 m |
2.5 |
| Managing Director/ General Manager |
Growth and margin improvement | Lighting | IT/UK | Turnover € 12 m |
6 |
| VP Americas |
Growth | Woodworking tools | USA/ GER |
Turnover € 120 m |
3 |
| VP Asia |
Growth | Woodworking tools | GER | Turnover € 120 m |
3 |
| VP Europe |
Turnaround and growth | Woodworking tools | GER | Turnover € 120 m |
3 |
| VP Sales Germany |
Restructuring | Power train engineering | GER | Turnover € 150 m |
4 |
| VP Sales/ marketing | Efficiency improvement and growth | Automotive supplies/plastics | GER | Turnover € 50 m |
2 |
| VP Sales/ marketing Europe | Growth | Printing | IT/ USA |
Turnover € 60 m |
5 |
| Divisional manager | Restructuring and growth | Electrical engineering | GER | Turnover € 30 m |
3 |
| Head of production | Productivity improvement | Power train engineering | GER | Turnover € 220 m |
2 |
| Head of production | Turnaround and productivity improvement | Hydraulics | GER | Turnover € 130 m |
4.5 |
| General manager | Startup and growth in Italy |
Watches | IT/ USA |
Turnover < € 10 m |
4 |
| Operations manager | Restructuring | Automotive supplies / power train engineering | FR/ USA |
Turnover € 1000 m |
0.75 |
| Head of profit centre | Efficiency improvement and growth | Automotive supplies / plastics | GER/ CA |
Turnover € 12,000 m |
3 |
| General manager | Startup and growth in China |
Industrial sewing machines | CN/ GER |
Turnover € 50 m |
2 |
| Export Director |
Growth | Woodworking | Shanghai/ UA |
Turnover € 200 m |
4 |
| Start-up and management of a representative office | Startup and growth in China |
Injection moulding | CN/ GER |
Turnover € 200 m |
ongoing |
| Start-up and management of a legal entity | "Carve-out" in China |
Electrical engineering | CN/ GER |
Turnover € 5 m |
1 |
| CIO | Company-wide introduction of SAP | Power train engineering | GER | Turnover € 1500 m |
4 |
| Business development, project manager | Greenfield start-up | Automotive supplies / plastics | FR/ GER |
Turnover € 1500 m |
2 |
| Business development, M&A consultant | International growth | Automotive supplies / plastics | AR/ GER |
Turnover € 1500 m |
1 |
| Business development, project manager | Greenfield start-up | Automotive supplies / plastics | CA/ GER |
Turnover € 12,000 m |
1 |
| Business development, M&A consultant | International growth | Injection moulding | EU/IN/ GER |
Turnover € 200 m |
0.25 |
| Business development, project manager | Greenfield start-up with focus on supply chain | Electrical engineering / telecommunications | CN | Turnover € 15,000 m |
4 |
| Business development, project manager | Greenfield start-up with focus on supply chain | Diesel motors | CN/ USA |
Turnover € 10,000 m |
0.75 |
| Business development, project manager | Greenfield start-up with focus on supply chain | Diesel motors | IN/ USA |
Turnover € 10,000 m |
0.75 |
| Business development, project manager | Greenfield start-up with focus on supply chain | Filters | TR/ USA |
Turnover € 10,000 m |
0.5 |
| Business development consultant, project manager | Start-up and growth | Industrial fasteners | CN/ GER |
Turnover € 20 m |
2 |
| Business development consultant, project manager | Start-up and growth | Industrial fasteners | EU/ GER |
Turnover € 20 m |
2 |
| Strategy and R&D | Reorientation | Cleaning machinery | GER | Turnover € 70 m |
0.5 |
| Strategy and business plan | Bank refinancing | Plastics | BG | Turnover € 8 m |
0.5 |
| Business development consultant | Start-up and growth in Europe | Surface coatings | IT/ USA |
Turnover < € 10 m |
2 |