Gerhard Ohler

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About Gerhard Ohler

Experienced CEO and Board Director with extensive intercultural leadership skills and solid Chinese language skills, especially in the capital goods industry, plant engineering, mechanical engineering, special machinery business, tool and die business, plastics industry, recycling, plastics processing, and plastic packaging. Primary areas of expertise as the CEO of global market leaders, technology leaders, as Managing Director, General Manager, and as an expatriate in China- Managing and growing multimillion Euro businesses of market leaders in turnkey solutions, machines, tools for plastics processing, running numerous entities in Europe, the USA, and Asia, leading a global team of highly qualified employees - Global sales and marketing management, strategic positioning, value-based management, introducing value based-pricing models, international key account management - Developing and implementing strategies for premium quality suppliers to also access, grow and capture leadership in highly competitive mid-markets, designing business models for "good enough solutions", successfully taking significant shares of the global mid-market - Strategy development and implementation, change management, international transfer of value-added processes, setting up global production planning and control programs - Turnaround management - Establishing innovation management systems and strategies for digitalization and virtual services in mechanical engineering, machine building, and the tool and die business - Shareholding management and performance management of multimillion Euro businesses in Austria, China, Czech Republic, Germany, Mexico, Ukraine - Successfully managing start-ups and greenfield projects, building the business from scratch for private equity firms and family-owned businesses - Development and implementation of sustainability programs on a global level, providing the customers with solutions for energy saving, material saving, minimizing scrap rates, closed-loop-solutions, minimizing the CO2 footprint Keywords: CEO, Vorstand, Geschäftsführer, Managing Director, General Manager, Business Development, Leadership, CSO, COO, Senior Executive, Board Director, Chairman of the Board, Supervisory Board, Aufsichtsrat, Certified Supervisory Expert, Sales Director, Vice President Sales, China, Chinese, Asia