Daniel Lock
COO/CFO/CDO
Experience
Apr 2022 - Present
3 years 3 months Berlin, Germany
CFO & COO, Co-Founder, Managing Director
Tupu Farming Solutions
- Running an efficient digital finance, accounting, payroll, and HR operations setup
- Owning all financial planning and analysis, controlling, budgeting, accounting, and reporting activities
- Responsible for building and operating the first production facility, daily serving customers like Rewe, Alnatura, LPG, Knuspr, Chef's Culinar, Michelin-starred restaurants
- Introduced and running ERP, HRIS, BI, accounts payables, and IoT cloud applications
- Built end-to-end digital production planning & execution mgt. systems using no-code tools
- Responsible for all regulatory and voluntary quality management certification compliance (QS, Global GAP, EU-Bio), legal and tax affairs, as well as IT management
- Set up an R&D subsidiary in the Netherlands
May 2021 - Mar 2022
11 months Munich, Germany
Vice President Business Development and CFO International
Kalera
- Responsible for acquiring and developing >25 new large-scale projects globally
- Developed Kalera's Corporate Strategy 2023 and its Global Expansion Strategy
- Built the business dev. team in Munich and led it globally
- Led the international finance team through the merger closing and integration phase
- Performed regular financial planning and analysis, implemented outsourcing structures, steered the roll-out of new software tools, aligned the future global Kalera setup
- Managed the external due diligence on Kalera for &ever's shareholders
Jun 2020 - May 2021
1 year Munich, Germany
Co-Founder
Kalo Greens
Co-Founder of a DTC hardware startup aiming to enable everyone to self-sufficiently grow greens and small fruit at home indoors. The founding team joined &ever/Kalera.
Jun 2019 - Jun 2020
1 year 1 month Munich, Germany
Project Leader
The Boston Consulting Group
- Project focus on digitalization of shared service functions across industries
- Team-lead for BCG-internal recruiting of People & Org. practice area in Central Europe
- Co-author of an article on approaches to digitalizing support functions
Aug 2017 - Aug 2017
1 month Walldorf, Germany
Secondment to a product management team
SAP
- Developed a new go-to-market approach and cloud pricing model for an analytics product
- Supported the Product Owner of a Scrum software development team to get first-hand insights into SAP's agile software development approach
Sep 2012 - Mar 2019
6 years 7 months Munich, Germany
Senior Project Manager
Roland Berger
- Project focus on digital industries, IT function, and technology-driven digitalization across industries
- "Challenge Club" international leadership development program (best 5% of all consultants worldwide); fast-track promotions on every level
- Competence centre's interns' lead; recruiting core group, university marketing ambassador 2015-2019
- Lead-lecturer at TU Munich for the seminar "IT and consulting" 2017-2019
Summary
Strategic and entrepreneurial, versatile leader with 12 years of international experience in fast-paced environments, known for my passion for digital solutions and an analytical, yet hands-on approach.
Languages
German
Native
English
Advanced
Spanish
Intermediate
French
Elementary
Education
Oct 2009 - Jun 2009
National University of Singapore
Singapore
Oct 2007 - Jun 2012
Technical University of Munich
Diplom-Kaufmann Univ. · MSc. in Business Administration · Munich, Germany · 1.3
Oct 1997 - Jun 2006
Ludwig-Uhland-Gymnasium
Kirchheim unter Teck, Germany · 1.2
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