Björn has over 12 years of experience across the globe as an executive in various commercial, strategic and financial positions at Lafarge and at Merck. At Lafarge, he managed a review of the German production sites and organizational restructuring, which improved financial health. At Merck he has held positions in Commercial & Subsidiary Controlling and Technical Operations during various transforming acquisitions and was CFO and member of the Board for the affiliates of Merck in the Middle-East region and for the Netherlands and Belgium. In the Middle-East, he managed establishing SAP R/3 and contract manufacturing activities, enabling the business to more than double organically in two years. In his recent role in the Netherlands and Belgium, he led a transformation of the business from Finance resulting in a growth against the market trend. Furthermore, Björn was managing the Holding activities of Merck in the Netherlands and supported its multi-billion dollar global participations during the acquisition of Sigma-Aldrich, and included mergers, valuations, taxation, and financing. Within the broad field of Finance, Björn’s has a strong business orientation through financial transparency and ownership, process development and pragmatic problem solving. Björn holds a Master (Diplom Kaufmann) degree in Economics and International Management from the Otto-von-Guericke University in Magdeburg. A native German speaker, Björn is fluent in English.

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