Chairperson of the Board of Supervisors
Dr.-Ing. Dr. rer. pol. Hermann Sommer
Function:
Chairperson of the Board of Supervisors
Born in:
1957
Experience, branches, specialities:
- Managerial function in line positions in small to medium-sized family-owned companies and large public limited companies
- Reorganisation and crisis management
- Restructuring,
- Strategy consulting
- Metal production and processing
- Automotive supply industry,
- Recycling of industrial residual and waste material
- Restructuring during bankruptcy proceedings
- Construction industry, logistics corporations, the real estate sector
Professional experience:
2009 - today
Chairperson of the Board of Supervisors
2005 - 2009
Member of the STRIVE AG executive board
2004 - today
Partner of S-VG Sommer Vermögensverwaltung GmbH & CO KG
- Holistic consulting and implementation of corporate changes
2002 - today
Partner of the S-IG Sommer Ingenieur GmbH & CO KG (limited company)
- Consulting role during various bankruptcy proceedings and resumption of corporations
- Corporate restructuring before and during bankruptcy proceedings
- Implementation of change processes
2001 - 2002
Independent partner of a medium-sized crisis management consulting company
- Project management: restructuring and process optimisation for an automotive supplier (manufacturer of rubber profile for cars)
- Creation of a restructuring process for a logistics company
- Introduction of a BSC (balanced scorecard) system for an automotive supplier
- Management of a large and several small bankruptcy proceedings, restructuring and resumption of company (mechanical engineering company, products for the automotive industry)
1998 - 2001
Interim management: managing director, business concept implementation (start-up), product organisation, expansion of operations, installation of control instruments
1993 - 1997
Independent corporate consultant and interim manager (companies in the metal, recycling, waste and disposal sectors, automotive supply industry)
- Crisis management: restructuring of metal processing plants in the former East German states; preparation of a reorganisation plan; closure and merger of sites; creation of a marketing network; cost reduction programme
- Project management: old car recycling; concept creation and implementation on behalf of an automotive manufacturer
- Process optimisation in an aluminium foundry
1986 - 1992
General management of a medium-sized corporate group (car supply industry) holding with 40 subsidiaries; creation of an international marketing network (Europe, USA, South America); customers: foundries and automotive industry
1984 - 1985
Creation of a start-up company within the special metal manufacturing sector (strontium); set up of production, commercial and technical management structures
Professional training:
1977 - 1983
Studied IME metallurgical process engineering and metal recycling at the RWTH Aachen University of Technology, Germany
1983 - 1984
Postgraduate course in economics (3 semesters)
1983 - 1988
Dissertation: „Calcination of alkali and earthy alkali elements”, awarded „doctorate in engineering, Dr. -Ing.”
2001 - 2004
Doctorate in economics focussing on: „Communication and information in corporations as a prerequisite for didactic managerial principles” and awarded „Dr. rer.pol.”
