Claudius Grossmann

Job qualifications: Managing foreign business units for various industries, acting in functions ranging from COO, CFO to risk-manager handling sales- as well as back-office operations. - Managing people on multinational level.

Establishing, building-up, running and restructuring of business units.

Securing financial health of such business units, identifying funders for respective necessary funding needs, negotiations with funders and bankers. – Budgetary controlling functions.

Project management for restructuring projects, real estate development and start-up companies.

Specialized knowledge in legal and physical collection and repossession of overdue monies and leased assets in China.

Many years of experience in risk management for lending and leasing business as well as internal and operational risks.

Personal characteristics: Managerial skills, determined, persuasive and assertive. Analytical and detailed, nevertheless not losing the big picture. Good negotiator achieving results and beneficial agreements. Good ability to pass on knowledge and responsibility to younger staff. Good team-worker as well as excellent multicultural skills. Good written and verbal expression skills, friendly, open-minded.

I have spent most of my professional career working in commercial as well as investment banks, international credit risk management, internal audit, project financing, but also in property development and many years in industrial leasing supporting German vendors as well as German SMEs while gaining specialised knowledge of lawful and physical repossession techniques and collections of any assets.

In the preceding years of my career I participated in the built up of business units such as Dresdner Bank AG Shanghai Branch back in 1993 and Deutsche Leasing (China) Co., Ltd. in 2006, as well as restructuring of business units.

Besides many years of credit risk management, my role soon expanded into managing complete office operations in later stages of my career. – In recent years, I have advised and actively supported foreign companies acting as advisor and intermediary for their respective financing needs.

Beyond my vast professional know-how, I have a good understanding of diverse cultures, political, cultural as well as economical and risk-relevant insights and have demonstrated effective management style leading dynamic multicultural working environments.

I like to work worldwide for local or foreign companies, finance industry or consulting firms in an adequate function including also project-driven function for start-ups or regular business units of any industrial sector requiring administration, HR-, risk-, compliance- and general management know-how.