Markus Drewes
Communication Consultant
Experience
Apr 2024 - Jul 2024
4 months Germany
Communication Consultant
Infinigate Group
- Communicative support for the acquisition of Wavelink (Australia)
- Communication strategy NIS-2
Nov 2023 - Apr 2024
6 months Germany
Head of CEO Communications
Infinigate Group
- Regular monthly internal CEO messages
- External positioning strategy (trade, economic and financial press)
- Ghostwriting speeches, keynotes, byline articles
- Creation of an AI avatar
May 2022 - Oct 2023
1 year 6 months Germany
Head of Corporate Communications
Infinigate Group
- Development and management of external and internal communications
- Development of external and internal communication strategy
- Member of IMO, concept/realization of "Sounding Board" and newsletter
- Member of Incident Response Group
- Participation in the development and realization of new Corporate Identity
- Day One Celebration, Town Hall Meetings, CEO videos
- Change communication, organizational development
- Pitch and onboarding of international PR agencies
- Development and realization of LinkedIn strategy
- Global reporting on the acquisitions, including Bloomberg
- Internal information for managers and employees
- Intensification of regular reporting, accompanying it-sa
- Day One and Town Hall meetings with around 1,000 participants
- Constitution of the internal "Sounding Board", a kind of "change agents"
- Growth of LinkedIn followers from 2,500 to over 11,500
- Development of a group-wide intranet (based on SharePoint) in less than 8 months
- Successful crisis communication, member of the incident response group
May 2021 - Jan 2022
9 months Germany
Senior Manager Internal Communications & Engagement
Universal-Investment
- Leading Internal and Leadership Communications
- Intranet, newsletters, videos, virtual events
- Concepts for CSR and ESG
- Consulting, strategy, concepts, realization
- Sites (Germany, Luxembourg, Poland, Ireland) and entities
Oct 2020 - Dec 2021
1 year 3 months Germany
Media Relations & PR Officer
Toogethr Germany
- Building up, maintaining and expanding press relations
- PR concepts and support for trade fairs (IAA MOBILITY, EXPO REAL)
- Establishing a successful YouTube channel (Dein bester Lebenslauf)
Apr 2019 - Apr 2021
2 years 1 month Germany
Communications Consultant, PR Consultant
Innovative Marketing Agency and clients (various)
- Communication concepts and realization for diverse clients
- PR strategy for marketing companies
- Media relations for aerospace
- Concept development
Oct 2018 - Mar 2019
6 months Germany
Internal & Change Communication | Media Relations
OSRAM AG
- Internal communication of structural changes
- Media relations for the new business unit "Digital"
Sep 2018 - Nov 2018
3 months Germany
Concept & Text
CANCOM SE
- Trade press work for Cancom AHP Enterprise Cloud in hyperconvergent environments for HPE Discover, Madrid
Jan 2018 - Sep 2018
9 months Germany
Concept, research, text, editorial work
Osram Opto Semiconductors
- Trade press work and compendium on visible and invisible light in cars
Jul 2016 - Oct 2017
1 year 4 months Germany
Senior Media Relations Officer EMEA
LEDVANCE GmbH
- Building successful Media Relations (EMEA)
- Corporate presentation
- Agency management
Nov 2014 - Mar 2017
2 years 5 months Germany
Senior Media Relations Officer
OSRAM AG
- Media relations for the in-house startup Lightify (smart home, IoT)
- Supporting the social media channels (Facebook, Twitter)
- Press work for "Light + Building 2016"
- Crisis communication
- Agency management
- Communication support for the legal independence of LEDVANCE
- Press conference “Light + Building 2016” with more than 30 journalists
- Concepts “Mobile Energy Monitoring”, “Edition 1906”, “Lightify”
- More than 40 publications “LED streetlighting for Milan” (in Turkey, Italy, Germany, UK, etc.)
Aug 2013 - Oct 2013
3 months Germany
Internal Communications Consultant
Versicherungskammer Bayern
- Internal communications consulting for a major insurance company
Apr 2013 - Jul 2013
4 months Germany
Consultant Concept & Text (Compliance)
IDT Biologika
- Communications for product and legal compliance in relation to the corporate strategy.
Mar 2012 - May 2012
3 months Germany
Project Manager Employer Branding
SGL Carbon AG
- Coordinator of four subprojects, project manager for the creative concept
- Reporting to board member and steering committee
- Agency management, budget responsibility
Dec 2011 - Feb 2012
3 months Germany
Executive Consultant Customer Communications
European Patent Academy
- Consulting for professionalizing customer communications
- Preparation, moderation, and wrap-up of workshops
- Team building
Feb 2011 - May 2011
4 months Germany
Project Manager Media Relations
European Patent Office
- Media and press for the European Inventor Award 2011
- Social media
- Agency management
- More than 250 publications within 4 weeks across Europe
- More than 1,500 followers on Facebook
Nov 2010 - Feb 2011
4 months Germany
Consultant and Support Issue Management / Crisis Communication
European Patent Office
- Strategy development, concept, text, operative support
- "Broccoli Case", "Tomato Case", "hES Patents"
- Media relations for "Annual Meeting Chinese Patent Office"
Sep 2010 - Dec 2010
4 months Germany
Senior Consultant and Support Customer Communication
Netcos GmbH
- Concepts, text, ghostwriting
Jul 2008 - Dec 2009
6 months Germany
Consultant and Support Change Communication
Audi AG
- Communication supervision of a wide change process concerning company-wide product data management for approx. 70,000 people
- Consulting, strategy development, concepts, text
Jun 2008 - Aug 2008
3 months Germany
Senior Consultant and Support
Dick GmbH (now Dictum GmbH)
- Consulting, concept, text for "Hand-Forged Japanese Knives"
Aug 2005 - Jul 2006
1 year Germany
Consultant Change and Internal Communication
DaimlerChrysler AG
- Consulting Improving Cooperation
- Analysis of communication behavior
- Preparation, moderation, and evaluation of employee attitude survey
Mar 2005 - Jul 2007
2 years 5 months Germany
Head of Corporate Communications
Tech Data Germany
- Spokesperson for Tech Data Germany
- Adapting global communications for Germany
- Increasing media contacts (technical and business press)
- External communications Tech Data Europe, Central Region
- External communications Azlan D, A, CH
- Crisis communication, issue management
- Arrangement and conducting of press conferences and interviews
- Marketing communication for special campaigns
- Re-launch of customer magazine
- Project Manager Vendor Communications
- Project Manager Enhancing Internal Communications
- Agency management, budget responsibility
- Maintaining the intranet, employee meetings, kick-offs
- In-house exhibitions, trade shows
- Spokesperson for Brightstar Europe (2007)
- Quadrupling the number of journalists at press conferences
- Significantly increasing press clippings (print and online)
- Effective crisis communication
- Revival of the customer magazine
- Successful kick-offs and employee meetings
- Implementation of Meeting Cascade (internal communications)
Jun 2004 - Oct 2004
5 months Germany
Head of Corporate Communications
Nassauische Heimstätte
- Spokesperson
- Reorganization of external communications
- Agency management, budget responsibility
- Project Manager trade shows
- Project member Employees Summer Festival
- Strategy development, concepts, texts
Sep 2003 - May 2004
9 months Germany
Project Manager and Consultant E-Learning
Linde Gas
- Development and realization of diverse e-learning tools
- Agency management
- Consulting internal communications
- Strategy development, concept, text
Oct 2002 - Jun 2003
9 months Germany
Internet Project Manager, Intranet Project Manager
Siemens Mobile Acceleration
- Re-launch Internet
- Setup Intranet
- Press relations
May 2002 - Sep 2002
5 months Germany
Senior Consultant and Support Corporate Communications
Walter Bau
- Annual Press Briefing 2002
- Annual report 2002
- Project management
Oct 2001 - Jul 2002
10 months Germany
Head of Media Relations 728, Editor in Chief
Fairchild Dornier
- Global press relations and public relations for the 728 family
- Increasing media contacts (special & business press)
- Project management for the rollout
- Development and editorship of customer magazine (English)
- Managing Editor
- Significantly increasing coverage in business and technical press
- International press conference for the rollout: more than 70 journalists
May 1998 - Aug 2001
3 years 4 months Germany
Head of Internal Communications
MTU Aero Engines
- Setup of global Internal Communications team
- Team leadership: 4 permanent employees, up to 6 freelancers
- Employee magazine (re-launch, setup editorial team)
- Special issues of employee magazine
- Senior management information
- Setup and implementation of intranet
- Implementation of business TV
- Corporate mission
- Jubilee exposition 30 Years of MTU
- Corporate group projects (DaimlerChrysler)
- Trade shows (ILA, Le Bourget, Farnborough)
- Employee attitude survey
- Extension test facility
- Ghostwriter for Bodo Uebber, Manfred Bischoff, Rainer Hertrich
- Employee magazine has been the company’s opinion leader since ’99
- Intranet: more than 30,000 page views per day after only 9 months
- Business TV coverage: over 5% after 6 months
- Participation in unsolicited employee survey over 75%
- Successful support for the introduction of SAP R/3
Aug 1992 - Sep 1997
5 years 2 months Germany
Managing Partner, Senior PR Consultant
Audio Partners
- New client acquisition and client servicing
- Strategies, concepts, texts for PR radio features
- Production, pitching, documenting
- Selected clients: FIAT, Ehapa Verlag, Deutsche Bundespost Postdienst, Citibank, Deutsche Bundespost Postbank, Verband Freier Heilpraktiker, Karstadt
- Over 6.1 million daily reach for a feature of the Post
- Over 60 broadcasts for a series presented by Karstadt
Aug 1991 - Sep 1992
1 year 2 months Germany
PR Consultant
Schlenker PR
- New client acquisition
- Strategies, concepts, texts for PR radio features
- Production, pitching, documenting
- Selected clients: Delacre, DEVK, Procter & Gamble, Aktion Sorgenkind (now Aktion Mensch), Europcar Interrent, Volksfürsorge
Aug 1989 - Mar 1991
1 year 8 months Germany
Local Journalist, Reporter, Text Creation, Producer
Antenne 1 Stuttgart, Radio 7
- Daily news
- Radio presenter
- Production of jingles and trailers
- Concept, text and production of radio commercials
Languages
German
Native
English
Advanced
Education
May 1994 - Jul 1997
LMU, Munich
Diploma in Journalism (University) · Journalism, communication science, politics, sociology, social psychology · Munich, Germany
Nov 1987 - Jul 1989
Otto-Friedrich-University, Bamberg
Business Administration · Bamberg, Germany
Certifications & licenses
Practitioner Positive Psychology
Inntal Institut
Scrum Master
TÜV Süd Academy
NLP Trainer
DVNLP
NLP Trainer
German NLP Coaching Association
NLP Trainer
INLPTA
NLP Trainer
CNLPA
Professional Coach
ECA
Professional Coach
Alexander Training
NLP Practitioner
INLPTA
NLP Master Practitioner
Alexander Training
NLP Practitioner
Alexander Training
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