Hanno Froese

Overall responsibility for the entire operations and supply chain structure of the Heating Division (approx. 1500 employees) - Overall responsibility for 6 locations (3x Germany, Slovenia, Serbia and Taiwan) with approx. 1500 employees - Further development and implementation of the "Integrated Supply Chain" (operations, purchasing and logistics) for the Heating Division - Definition and further development of the "Heating Transformation" from fossil fuels (e.g. gas, oil) to renewable energies (esp. heat pumps)

Managing Director of Cembrit/Swisspearl Hungary Overall responsibility for the entire site Close collaboration with global group function managers to create strategies and define action plans

- Project lead responsible for the definition, design and implementation of the new product ownership structure within the corporation (matrix organization equivalent to a “Baureihen” organization of most automotive OEM) - Responsibility for steering the product portfolio and the product results of Jungheinrichs product segments - Definition of portfolio- and product-strategies for the different product segments, including updating/redefining the portfolio strategy as “strategy owner” within the new corporate strategy - Initiator of new product development projects

- Overall responsibility for the entire site with approx. 1’000 employees and turnover volume of >500 M € - P&L accountability for business segments of battery-powered counterbalance trucks (EFG) and diesel/gas forklift trucks (VFG) of the Jungheinrich Group - Responsibility for product management, development, quality and operations of the entire range of counterbalance trucks - Reorganization of the plant structure to ensure optimal synergies between the two business segments in close collaboration with “workers council” and labour union (IG Metal) - Management of biggest platform development project for the corporation - Significant improvement of output-volume (up to +17%) and capacity (+30%), as well as delivering an above target productivity - Winner of both Jungheinrich internal Lean-Awards (“Best in Class” and “Best performer”) in 2018

- Overall responsibility for the entire site. - The Hilti Kunststofftechnik GmbH in Nersingen close to Neu-Ulm is the competence center for plastic technologies within the Hilti corporation. - The production area "tool parts" produces components for our famous Hilti tools. These are used to assemble tools in the areas of drilling & demolition, direct fastening, diamond area, cutting & grinding as well as in the area of measuring. - The production area "fastening elements" produces components or final products primarily for applications in the area of mechanical anchoring (i.e. insulation fastening), chemical anchoring, and direct fastening - We provide services for plastic technologies in the product development process, simulation of components and production processes, tailored material selection as well as tooling competence in injection molds and injection molding competence

- Leading the local „Lean-Management“ implementation and qualification through local lean experts (e.g. value stream analysis, SMED, 5S, cardboard engineering, TPM) - Managing the provision of assembly and production equipment through own engineering department – all assembly systems are developed and build in-house - Responsible for the maintenance department (total productive maintenance), facility management, factory planning and prototype production facility - Driving the company wide „lead plant function“ for assembly, machining and testing technology - Responsible for 60 employees – primarily engineering background

Role: - Supplying the markets/customers with the specific products produced by the unit taking into consideration qualitative, scheduling and economic aspects - Increasing the sustainable competitive ability of the unit (quality, product availability, costs, technologies) - Supporting the business units in the TTM process and in introducing new products - Leading the corporation-wide project “Lean@Hilti” – defining the lean production system for Hilti and the implementation plan for all Hilti production facilities worldwide - Responsible for ca. 100 employees – assembly worker and quality/logistic/purchasing/engineering - Ongoing development of staff - Responsible for planning and implementation of relocation and closing of plant within 2 years; including social plan development, fluctuation and key people management as well as leading one of the operational relocation teams

- Management of strategic project for the Hilti Corporation, e.g. M&A, performance improvement, corporate strategy, Market/Sales strategy, BU/product strategy - Development and coaching of project teams (focus: methods, structure, communication) - Preparation and execution of workshops and presentation to the Executive Board, Board of Directors and Senior Management e.g. yearly strategy workshop with Executive Board; global management forum of worldwide top Hilti managers; BoD updates; project steering meetings with Executive Board

Management of - complete projects and project modules - teams of 4-8 consultants and associate consultant - international projects Complete responsibility for project outcome and client map to board members Project types (extract): strategy development, operational improvement/restructuring, purchasing and supply chain management; Covered industries (extract): process industry, construction, electronic industry, mobile operators, IT services

Full-tuition-scholarship from the "Federation of German American clubs" Recipient of the Josef Finkelstein Award for “Academic Excellence and cross-cultural understanding