The team

Core Competencies: Disruptive mobility strategies, transportation system solutions and management process for innovations

• Owner of Competence & Design Center for Mobility Innovations since 2009
• previous Managing Director of Hymer idc – Innovations- & Design Center until 2009
• first MCC/smart Managing Director of development and production until 1998
• Head of strategic projects Mercedes Benz and smart / Vice president Strategy & Corporate Design until 1994
• 30 years teaching assignments in Industrial & Transportation Design at the University of Pforzheim
• Advisory board, juror and appraiser in companies, associates and institutions

Personal motivation and goals: ,,Communicate experience and know-how from over 45 years in all mobility sectors to younger generations and provide disruptive impulses for future-oriented business areas”

Core Competences:  Building and developing companies / Developing vehicles and vehicle systems / Creating transport and mobility system solutions

• Develop vehicles and vehicle systems / Market launch / Project management
• Develop disruptive transport and mobility systems for metropolitan areas / Market launch
• Build and develop business / restructure companies
• Implement development processes
• Private equity Companies advisor – Identify technology development and trends

Personal motivation and goals: ,, Shaping the future of mobility’’

Core competences:  Creation of fleet management and networked / intermodal mobility concepts, with particular emphasis on sustainable and environmental aspects.

• CEO of large fleet management and mobility companies in Germany, Austria and Switzerland
• Owner of Lüscho Lübke KG
• Optimization and control of vehicle fleets by considering economic efficiency. Creation of make or buy concepts for the vehicle fleet
• Advisory board, juror and appraiser in companies, associations and institutions.

Personal motivation and goals:  ,,Creating mobility solutions in harmony with traffic and environment”

Core competences:  Company development, leadership and law

• Managing Director / CEO within family-owned groups of companies in the automotive / consumer goods industry
• Owner of the FUTURUM business consultancy
• Many years of operational experience in overall corporate realignment processes, profitable brand management and start-up, development of production and distribution systems
• M&A, law and investment management, succession planning

 Personal motivation and goals: ,,secure the future”

Core competences: Digitalization and IT Management

• International experience in Italy, USA, Japan and China as Managing Director / CEO as well as in various executive positions in the automotive IT industry.
• Specific experience in strategy development, general management and organizational development, restructuring and change management.
• Consulting (strategy, planning, implementation) in the digitalization of business processes.  Optimization / redesign of processes, selection or development /adaptation of suitable software or applications. Application management and application operation. Telecommunication and IT security.
• Owner of FRITZENSCHAFT Consulting

Personal motivation and goals: ,,Information technology and digitalization as drivers of ultra-low emission mobility’’.

Core competences: Electric vehicle engineering and consulting

• International and multicultural experiences in Europe / Eastern Europe, USA, Asia / China. CEO and CTO in the automotive industry (OEM, Tier-x, Engineering Companies, SME), engineering, development, project management: vehicles, e-mobility, infrastructure and sustainable energy. 
• consulting for vehicles with combustion engines, hybrid cars, electric vehicle engineering and development, concepts for e-mobility, strategy, implementation and management.
• Automotive experience in all vehicle classes, commercial vehicles, construction vehicles, formula 1, rail vehicles, marine and aviation industry.

Personal motivation and goals:  ,, Creating sustainable efficient eco-systems consisting of vehicles, energy networks and infrastructure”.

Core competences: Production process planning in the automotive, supplier and mechanical engineering industries, factory structure and factory planning

• Executive functions in the automotive and consulting industry: planning and implementation of Brown/Greenfield projects, product launches, process optimization, supply chain optimization and supplier management.
• International experience: Successful overseas projects in Azerbaijan, Brazil, France, the Netherlands, India, Italy, Japan Poland, Portugal, USA, Turkey.
• Management and consulting in the planning and realization of process-oriented and strategic future-oriented optimal factory structures, factory and production systems, hands-on start-up management at the supplier.

Personal motivation and goals: „Contributing to the design of future mobility through the development of modern and optimal production processes“

Core competences: Conceptual vehicle design, user centered design, market and customer research, project management

• Product developer and project manager at TEAMOBILITY GmbH. Design concepts for vehicles, mobility systems, connected services and disruptive services
• Project manager (product strategy, design and innovation) for building special-purpose vehicles
• Masters thesis at Ziegler GmbH. Subject “Integration of innovation management in the product development of mid-sized traditional companies – illustrated by the development of fire engine set-ups”
• Bachelors thesis at Firma Ziegler GmbH. Subject “Conception and configuration of a fire engine cockpit”.
• Product development (M.SC.) & industrial design (B.A. studies at the university in Pforzheim

Personal motivation and goals: „ Coonjointly push future mobility solutions with focal points on more customer value, safety and sustainability“.

Core Competencies:

Marketing and intercultural communication for the chinese market

Personal Motivation and Targets: „Promotion of a deeper understanding of the chinese communication style and the chinese business conduct for a better evaluation of behaviour patterns and reactions“.