Oliver Staerk

+ Corporate internal audit responsibility for Asia-Pacific covering Singapore, Indonesia, China, Japan, Malaysia, Australia, Korea, Taiwan and India + Audited sales offices and production sites in Czech Republic, Poland, Ukraine, Turkey, Switzerland, Germany + Operational audits of all major functions such as finance, logistics, sales, HR, IT and purchasing +Managed the closing of a Japanese JV activity 30% below budget with a project team of 12 within set deadlines

+ Project manager of SAP implementation with over 40 project members from finance, IT, CS and logistics + Liaise closely with German IT team and local staff + Rollout of SAP in Japan and China within budget of EUR 1.5 M and within tight deadlines + Reduction of operating expenses by EUR 1 M/year

+ Setting up of financial reporting structure of newly merged Japanese entity to HQ based on IFRS + Operational controlling of EUR 80 M business including monthly closing, planning, forecasting, liquidity and capex management + Project controller of EUR 4 M restructuring project with payback of 3 years + Initiated and implemented a group wide transfer pricing policy liaising with corporate tax and legal departments, sales and finance

+ One year executive internal training in controlling, accounting, tax, treasury and budget planning departments

+ Operational running of business unit in the sales office with 5 direct reports including marketing, purchasing, sales and logistics + Key account management of Japanese JV partner and supplier with volume of EUR 10 M/year + Responsible for German-Japanese JV project setting up a production site in Korea Participant of Schott Potential International Manager Programme

+ Sales responsibility to Japanese customers + Establishing business relationships with new Japanese customers covering sales, logistics and technical issues + Liaising with German production site and Japanese customers including complaint and quality management + Qualitative and quantitative market analysis

+ Setting up strategic logistics concept for new business + Created strategic marketing database including statistical modelling, quantitative and qualitative forecasts + Liaise with Japanese business partners and HQ