Markus Drewes
Communication Consultant
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
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