Ralph Schmidt

• CFO in a medical device producing company overseeing Finance, Export and administration.

Consultancy, Change management, Interims-Management. Corporate consulting in the area of M+A activities (integration, carve out),organisation, control environment, change management and corporate / finance tasks. Associated professor at HWZ, Zurich (Dozent an der Hochschule für Wirtschaft Zürich).

-Fast speed integration of the acquired business -PPA process and aligned accounting and reporting (IFRS). -Provide business input for requested tax ruling processes and complex business structures in different countries (transfer pricing) - Supervising and supporting globally around 80 FTE. -Reducing risk and increasing efficiencies. First-point-of-contact liaison for Internal audits and calibrating counterparty risks evaluations.

- Integral finance manager of deal teams for buying and selling MA activities for 3 years. - Program Director of highly complex internal carve out projects. - Globally managing around 120 FTE including building global cultural alignment and efficient reporting processes (US GAAP). - Successful organizing major IT implementations in Germany, Ghana and Singapore.

This position is the same as the Global Group Controller but with the focus on Europe, Africa and Asia. - Acquisition and successful integration of a sizable cocoa and chocolate company in Germany. - Support for a Greenfield in Ghana.

- Fully responsibility for the organization of the public annual shareholder meeting. - Strengthening robustness of the supporting back-office. In-time preparation of the annual accounts and the shareholder report. - Responsibility for all German ADM processing companies. - Leading 30 direct and indirect reports by centralizing and aligning closing and reporting processes in the area of Finance / controlling.

Management: Successful implementation of SAP R3 in a highly specialized company / environment. Tax optimized business restructuring.

Management: Successful implementation of Navision in a highly specialized company / environment. Tax optimized business restructuring.

Key aspects and accounts were subsidiaries of companies of the Anglo – American region. Leading senior accountant at the clients including several non-routine audits.

Industriebetriebslehre, Organisation und Leitung, Betriebswirtschaftliches Prüfungswesen, Volkswirtschaftslehre, Sozialpolitik