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Dr.

Werner Boysen

Expert for sustainable corporate restructuring

"You only see something where you look, and you only find something where you search." (Karlfried Graf Dürckheim)

from 01.04.2025
Interim Manager since: 01/2002
Update: 04.01.2025

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Dr. Boysen Management + Consulting GmbH, Koblenz

Klostergut Besselich
D-56182 Urbar am Rhein
rq.garzrtnanz-arflbo-eq@arflbo.eraerj

Telefon Mobile
+49 1784640312
Telefon Private
+49 261 201740

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Personal data

Date of birth
19.01.1961 (Age:65)

Short profile

Intro
I am Dr. Werner Boysen, an M&A experienced specialist for meaningful strategic direction, stringent operative management and sustainable corporate value development. You may expect from me sound decisions and first-class Management Performance at the top Level of medium-sized industrial companies. My services range from systematic performance improvement over coping with imminent crisis to complex turnaround management.
In addition, I prepare well-founded, decision- and action-guiding restructuring concepts with going concern forecasts in accordance with IDW S6 and company valuations in accordance with IDW S1.
Experience overview
  • Achieving strategic clarity of thought and action
  • Building sustainable and scalable industrial business models (value creation)
  • Creating resilience through systemic coordination of measures and empowerment
  • Identifying and tapping the efficiency potential of industrial processes
  • Relevant restructuring and turnaround experience
  • Transaction expertise (M&A)
  • Expertise in restructuring reports (IDW S6) and valuation reports (IDW S1)
Tasks
  • Business Development
  • Yield Increase
  • Restructuring / Reorganization, close to insolvency
  • Management
  • Merger & Acquisition
  • Nachhaltige Stabilisierung von Unternehmen
  • Unternehmenswertsteigerung
Functions
  • Management / General Management / Board
  • Operations
  • Beirat, Aufsichtsrat
  • Geschäftsführung
  • Leitung eines Geschäftsfeldes
Role in the company
  • 1st Level / Executive Board / Management
  • Supervisory Board / Advisory Board / Board of Directors
  • Consultant, Advisor
Die Rolle folgt der Aufgabenstellung. In manchen Fällen kann es sinnvoll sein, mich als Consultant oder als Aufsichtsrat oder Beirat beratend "am Unternehmen" zu engagieren; in anderen Fällen mag ein operatives Einbringen "im Unternehmen" geeigneter sein.
Industry experience
  • Plant Engineering
  • Automotive, Supplier
  • Mechanical Engineering
  • Metal Industry
  • Paper / Packaging
Ich verstehe industrielle Prozesse im Markt und im Unternehmen. Zu meinen Branchenerfahrungen zählen auch industrienahe Dienstleister wie der Fachgroßhandel und Ingenieurbüros. 
Type of company
  • Owner-managed / Family Business
  • Corporation / Group
  • Medium-sized Enterprise
  • Private-Equity-geführte Unternehmen
  • Family-Office-geführte Unternehmen
  • Beteiligungen ausländischer Shareholders
Regions (Regions where you have proven experience)
  • Europe (EU)
  • Europe (not EU)
Spanien
Schweiz
England
Languages
  • German (Business fluent)
  • English (Business fluent)
  • French (Good)
  • Italian (Basic knowledge)
  • Spanish (Business fluent)
Special certificates and awards
  • Dr. rer. pol. in Wirtschaftswissenschaften, insbesondere Wirtschaftsinformatik und Informationsmanagement
  • Executive MBA
  • M. Sc. in Electrical Engineering and Electronics, especially Data Communication Systems
  • Dipl.-Ing. Maschinenbau mit Fachrichtung Forschung und Entwicklung
 
Special skills
  • Führungsstärke, Empowerment, Teambuilding
  • Nachhaltige Unternehmensstabilisierung, Resilienz
  • Operative Unternehmenssanierung
  • Wirksame Beseitigung von akuten Unternehmenskrisen
  • Strategische Reorientierung
  • Geschäftsmodelloptimierung
  • Produktmanagement
  • Produktentwicklung
  • Marketing und Vertrieb

IM projects (self employed)


Company description

Source of management information and useful tools as calculation applications, format sheets, checklists etc.

City / place
weltweit
Internet
www.consultingcheck.com
Measures taken
  • Decision for the structure of the application
  • Collection of relevant content
  • Digitalization of the content
  • Setup of a fully automated shop system
  • Market launch in German, English and Spanish language
Achieved Achievements
  • Successful worldwide market launch
  • Awareness in the relevant target segments
  • Profitable turnover growth
Special challenges
  • Ranking at search engines

Company description

Producer of automotive seatbelts

City / place
Deutschland
Mission
  • Ongoing financing of the company in an economic crisis
  • Operative restructuring
  • Corporate transaction (M&A)
Measures taken
  • Sale & Lease-back
  • Social reduction of the personnel staff
  • M&A process
  • Operative restructuring
Achieved Achievements
  • Successful restructuring
  • Successful M&A process with an international competitor
Special challenges
Inergy of the former shareholders being unable to take decisions

Company description

Producer of heavy-duty gearboxes

City / place
Deutschland
Mission
Expert for the preparation of a restructuring report with continuation forecast according to IDW S6
Measures taken
Identifying the stage of the crisis and the causes of the crisis, working out action-oriented restructuring measures, bringing about decisions by the shareholders and management
Achieved Achievements
Initiating a restructuring process
Special challenges
International sales in mechanical engineering
City / place
Deutschland
Special challenges
The changing macro-economic environment

Company description

Equipment manufacturer

City / place
Deutschland

Company description

Technical Wholesaler

Company turnover in Mio $
20 Mio USD
Number of employees in company
50
City / place
Deutschland
Initial situation at the client

Unterstützung des Geschäftsführenden Gesellschafters in der Konzeption der nächsten Entwicklungsphase seiner Unternehmensgruppe und Umsetzung konkreter strategischer und operativer Maßnahmen
Mitarbeiter: 50
Umsatz: 20


Company description

Producer of LED lighting systems

City / place
Deutschland/Niederlande

Company description

Producer of LED lighting systems

City / place
Deutschland/Niederlande
Measures taken
Carrying out a well-founded market analysis and an implementation-oriented concept for a market entry in a team with an information broker and industry expert for LED systems with the managing director
Achieved Achievements
Implementation-oriented concept
Special challenges
Intense competition on the German market for LED lighting systems

Company description

Dutch specialized wholesaler group (market leader)

City / place
Deutschland/Niederlande
Mission
Project management for the hands-on implementation of the concept created in summer 2020 for the introduction of a market-driven offering in the German market
Measures taken
Market-oriented product range development, establishment of a sales team, coordination of website design
Achieved Achievements
Successful launch on the German market
Special challenges
Coordination and fulfillment of market-specific requirements

Company description

Importer of industrial infrastructure products

City / place
Deutschland/Niederlande
Mission
Mediation of a strategic target
Measures taken
Research, initiation of the acquisition, transaction support and post-merger integration
Achieved Achievements
Procurement and integration of an importer company as a suitable component of the Dutch group's German business

Company description

Brand manufacturer of case furniture

City / place
Deutschland
Mission
Preparation of an IDW S6 expertise
Measures taken
Identification, communication and initiation of effective restructuring measurements
Achieved Achievements
Successful operative restructuring of the company
Special challenges
Need to reduce costs through process quality and a commercially acceptable level of quality

Company description

Manufacturer of plain bearings for industrial applications

City / place
Deutschland
Measures taken
Transfer of the management system introduced in the Group, adaptation of operational processes, management
Achieved Achievements
Successful integration into the Group, significant increase in earnings, motivation of the workforce
Special challenges
Cultural differences, empowerment of the workforce after years of autocratic leadership
City / place
Deutschland
Initial situation at the client

Interim-Manager für eine operative Restrukturierung und Ertragsverbesserung


Company description

Internationally operating industrial services company

City / place
Deutschland, Niederlande, Belgien
Mission
  • Minimizing the running operative losses
  • Preparation of the section for sale (M&A)
Measures taken
  • Establishing a solid understanding of the business
  • Objectiv and tough negotiations with customers
  • Restructuring of the section
  • Preparation of a sales exposé of the section
  • Initiating an M&A process
Achieved Achievements
  • Minimizing operative losses
  • Preparation of the sales process (M&A) for the section
Special challenges
  • Complexity of the contracts for turnaround projects in the petrochemical industry

Company description

Manufacturer of refractory components for plant engineering

City / place
Deutschland
Mission
Restructuring of a component producer for the plant engineering
Measures taken
Analysis and concept development as well as support of the division manager in the implementation of the planned restructuring measures
Achieved Achievements
Earnings increase from EUR -5 million EBITDA to zero within one year
Special challenges
Ingrained processes and change resistance

Company description

Producer of plastics tubes and fittings

City / place
Deutschland, Niederlande, Frankreich
Mission
Restructuring of the company
Measures taken
Automation, social plan
Achieved Achievements
Successful restructuring

Company description

Producer of components for the plant engineering

City / place
Höhr-Grenzhausen (Deutschland)
Initial situation at the client


Mission
Restructuring of several plants
Measures taken
REmarkable reduction of the fixed costs
Achieved Achievements
Operational restructuring of the supported plants

Company description

Brand manufacturers of designer tiles

City / place
Deutschland
Measures taken
Analysis and improvement of results through optimization of operational processes throughout the company (especially product management, product development, production and logistics), process documentation, functional descriptions
Achieved Achievements
Elimination of losses and improved integration of operational functions along the business process

Company description

Internationally operating producer of packaging components

City / place
Germany, Niederlande, Schottland, Frankreich, Ital
Mission
  • Creation of a management structure as a basis for growth
  • Acquisition of competitors in Europe
  • Mediation of the group of companies
Measures taken
  • Conception of a suitable management structure and implementation support
  • Arranging the acquisition and post-merger integration of a major competitor in Scotland
  • Initiation of further sensible acquisitions and cooperations in France and Italy
  • Mediation of the group of companies (M&A) to an industrial holding company (notarized in Frankfurt on 22.12.2015)
Achieved Achievements
  • Increase of the business volume by 500 %
  • Creation of a significant market position in Europe
  • Value creation
  • Successful mediation of the group of companies

Company description

Manufacturer of coupled equipment for the automatic windows production

City / place
Deutschland
Mission
Management of an acute economic crisis
Measures taken
  • Turnaround management by refocussing
  • Contribution to the mediation of the business to a group of private investors, binding in the former shareholder
Achieved Achievements
  • preservation of the business
  • Maintaining an operative role for the former shareholder

Company description

Supplier of auomotive brake systems

City / place
Deutschland, England, USA
Mission
  • Improvement of the delivery reliability and reduction of the cost in the prototype section
Measures taken
  • Extensive process improvements in product development at the Koblenz (Germany), Livonia (USA) and Shirley (UK) sites
  • Successful operational restructuring of the prototype process involving product development, sales and central purchasing at TRW Automotive by designing and implementing a holistic solution approach
Achieved Achievements
  • Shorter delivery times
  • Improved delivery reliability
  • remarkably lower cost
Special challenges
  • "Department thinking"
  • Distances

Company description

Producer of metal components for the automotive industry

City / place
Nastätten (Deutschland)
Measures taken
  • Securing liquidity
  • Sales activation and introduction of effective sales controlling
  • Development and initiation of the implementation of a sensible continuation concept
  • Search for investors and transfer of the former Trelleborg Automotive site (metal processing (stamping, welding, turning) to a new shareholder (M&A)
Achieved Achievements
  • Preservation of the business and the working places

Company description

Producer of returnable packaging units for automotive and retail applications

City / place
Deutschland, England, Frankreich, Spanien
Mission
  • Operative business restructuring
  • Elimination of the longstanding operative losses
Measures taken
  • Restructuring of the sales organization
  • Winning new customers by consequent disclosing and penetrating of the target segments (close to the customers)
  • Cut of non-profitable orders and customers
  • Clean-up of the product portfolio
  • Improving the internal cooperation by designing and implementing an end-to-end business process and through leadership
Achieved Achievements
  • Sales increase from EUR 40 million to EUR 60 million with a significant increase in the percentage margin
  • Positive earnings

Company description

Database supplier

City / place
München (Deutschland)
Mission
  • Briefing for Oracle's product management on the marketing of existing BI applications
Measures taken
  • Market positioning of the Business Intelligence features of Oracle Deutschland GmbH
  • Derivation of market entry scenarios and cross- and upselling potentials
Achieved Achievements
  • Clear strategic line for the product management of Oracle BI solutions in Germany

Company description

Database supplier

City / place
München (Deutschland)
Initial situation at the client



Ergebnisse: .
Mitarbeiter: 0

Mission
  • Consideration of whether Oracle's individual applications for promoting collaboration can be combined in a “Collaboration Suite” and how this suite should ideally be marketed
Measures taken
  • Strategic market positioning of the Oracle Collaboration Suite (OCS)
  • Creation of door-opener presentations for Oracle Key Account Managers at blue chip companies
Achieved Achievements
  • Creating a basis for product management and sales briefing regarding Oracle's collaboration applications
Special challenges
  • Get an overview of all Oracle applications
  • Get an overview of competitive activities

Company description

Producer of recycling papers

City / place
Düsseldorf (Deutschland)
Initial situation at the client





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Mitarbeiter: 200
Umsatz: 30

Mission
  • Restructuring of a recycled paper mill
  • Stop of operative losses
Measures taken
  • Coordination of technical possibilities with customer requirements and budget restrictions
  • Crystallization of a clear profile on the market
  • Creation and implementation of a restructuring concept
  • Setting up a sales team at RWE's previous waste disposal site in Düsseldorf
  • Customer acquisition via commercial agencies and directly
Achieved Achievements
  • Stopping the losses quickly
Special challenges
Own interests of the market players

Company description

Allianz life insurance AG

City / place
Stuttgart (Deutschland)
Mission
  • Development and introduction of a method to identify the business potential of brokers for Allianz Lebensversicherungs AG
Measures taken
  • Conception of a broker potential analysis as a contribution to improving service and increasing sales performance while at the same time increasing efficiency
  • Development and introduction of a potential-dependent multi-level support concept for insurance brokers
Achieved Achievements
  • Availability of a methodology for broker potential analysis
  • Higher sales performance with simultaneously higher service efficiency in sales at Allianz Lebensversicherungs AG
Number of employees in company
50
City / place
Frankfurt am Main, London
Initial situation at the client

, > 50 Projektteilnehmer aus verschiedenen Bereichen der Bank und der Börse

Mitarbeiter: 50

Mission
  • Assessment of the impact of Deutsche Börse's new business model on the Frankfurt banking community
  • Accompanying the implementation of the changes as project manager of Deutsche Bank AG
Measures taken
  • Impact analysis: Possible revenue and earnings effects on the banking community through the introduction of a central counterparty by Deutsche Börse
  • Development and introduction of necessary new functions and cross-bank, mission-critical business processes
Achieved Achievements
  • Deutsche Bank has coped well with the significant change in Deutsche Börse's business model.
Special challenges
  • Very different interests of the project participants from the affected divisions of Deutsche Bank

Work history (permanent employment)

City / place
virtuell
Remarks
Conception, development and marketing of a virtual marketplace for management consultancy
City / place
Koblenz (Deutschland)
Remarks
Interim Management,
Management Consulting,
Expertises and analyses,
Corporate Transactions.
City / place
Frankfurt (Deutschland)
Remarks
Leadership of the conception of an online credit-rating tool (BlueScore) for Deutsche Bank and development of an operational market introduction strategy targeting medium-sized companies;
Leadership of the analysis of the Deutsche Bank forfaiting process and evaluation of the opportunity to handle the forfaiting services via a commercially available Internet-based application in London;
Leadership of analyses and optimizations of several bank-internal business processes.
Employees: 5
City / place
Neuwied (Deutschland)
Remarks
Successful turnaround by process optimization, internationalization of the sales organization and co-operations;
Building a strong and performing second-level management Team.
Employees: 50
Sales volume: 10
City / place
Zürich (Schweiz)
Remarks
Decentralization of the order fulfilment by outsourcing (offshoring) and creation of local service points for 19 countries around the Med-i-terranean Sea;
Installation of an effective technical sales support, including the ca-pacity calculations for factories, the projection of factory layouts and improvement of the effectiveness of the aftersales Services.
Employees: 30
Sales volume: 100
City / place
Burgos (Spanien)
Remarks
Massive efficiency increase by process reorganization, concentration on core processes, outsourcing of side activities to suppliers, partially by in-plant arrangements (color mixing system) and by result-orientated leadership
Employees: 250
Sales volume: 30
City / place
Martorell (Spanien)
Remarks
Leadership of this sub-department within the car experimentation area of SEAT, S. A., at the interface between Marketing and R&D;
Responsibility for the alignment of the R&D services in the different specialized R&D departments;
Responsibility for planning and execution of experimentation ex-courses with prototypes and series cars, comparative tours for the analysis of the competitors’ cars;
Responsibility for performance and consumption measurements.
Employees: 30
City / place
Wolfsburg (Deutschland) und Martorell (Spanien)
Remarks
Technical engineering of the front axle cinematics for the SEAT Toledo;
Several assembly studies for the SEAT models Ibiza and Toledo.
Employees: 0

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