Laurent

August 2015 – July 2020

GEA Group, a M-DAX listed company with headquarter in Dusseldorf, is one of the largest processing equipment suppliers for food, beverage, and pharmaceutical processing.
Head of Business Unit Utilities Asia Pacific (excl. China):
Business Unit Utilities supplies heating and cooling solutions to industrial customers.
- Delivering Order Intake, Sales and Margin as agreed during budgeting process (target of ~20 mioEUR),
- Leading a team of 25 engineers based in India, Indonesia, The Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam, plus dotted line to the local Sales and Service teams,
- Managing the business, including order acquisition and project execution,
- Providing continuous market analysis, including identifying attractive market areas as well as potential partners (including M&A targets),
- Accelerating the development of the BU in India, Indonesia, and Vietnam, including building local teams, approaching new customers, pushing marketing activities (e.g. fairs, specific seminars).

July 2010 – July 2015
GEA Group AG (Dusseldorf)
Project Manager / Corporate Strategy:
- Leading projects for GEA Board in all Strategy related issues, such as strategic planning, portfolio management,
- Driving individual GEA entities with development and implementation of their dedicated strategies,
- Supporting GEA M&A team on acquisition and divestment projects,
- Executing special assignments, e.g. responsibility of defining and implementing the Region & Country setup of the new oneGEA organization.