Markus Drewes

Communication Consultant

Dachau, Germany

Experience

Apr 2024 - Jul 2024
4 months
Germany

Communication Consultant

Infinigate Group

  • Communicative support for the acquisition of Wavelink (Australia)
  • Communicational strategy NIS-2
Nov 2023 - Apr 2024
6 months
Germany

Head of CEO Communications

Infinigate Group

  • Regular monthly internal CEO messages
  • Strategy external positioning (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/realisation of "Sounding Board" and newsletter
  • Member of Incident Response Group
  • Participation in the development and realisation new Corporate Identity
  • Day One Celebration, Town Hall Meetings, CEO videos
  • Change communication, organisational development
  • Pitch and onboarding of international PR agencies
  • Development and realisation 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"
  • Development of followers on LinkedIn 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 the 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 on the occasion of "Light + Building 2016"
  • Crisis communication
  • Agency management
  • Communicational support to 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” (among others 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 workshop
  • Teambuilding
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 all across Europe
  • More than 1,500 follower 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

  • Communicational supervision of a wide change process, concerning the company-wide product data management, for approx. 70,000 persons
  • 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 the 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 to 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)
  • Quadruplicating the number of journalists at press conferences
  • Increasing press clippings (print and online) significantly
  • 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
  • Consultant 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
  • Developing and editor in chief customer magazine (English)
  • Managing Editor
  • Increasing reports in business and technical press significantly
  • 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 team Internal Communications (global)
  • Team leading: 4 permanently employed, up to 6 freelancers
  • Employees magazine (re-launch, setup editorial team)
  • Special issues employees magazine
  • Senior management information
  • Setup and implementation intranet
  • Implementation business TV
  • Corporate mission
  • Jubilee exposition 30 Years of MTU
  • Projects of the corporate group (DaimlerChrysler)
  • Trade shows (ILA, Le Bourget, Farnborough)
  • Employee attitude survey
  • Extension test facility
  • Ghostwriter for Bodo Uebber, Manfred Bischoff, Rainer Hertrich
  • Employees magazine is from ‘99 on opinion leader of the company
  • Intranet: more than 30,000 page views per day after only 9 months
  • Coverage business TV: over 5% after 6 months
  • Participation in unsolicited employees’ survey more than 75%
  • Successful support to 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
  • Greater than 6.1 million day range for a feature of the Post
  • Over 60 broadcasts for a serial presented by Karstadt
Aug 1991 - Sep 1992
1 year 2 months
Germany

PR Consultant

Schlenker PR

  • New clients acquisition and winning over
  • 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

Diplom-Journalist univ. · 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

Deutscher NLP Coaching Verband

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