advisor
Toren AG
Total years of experience :16 years, 3 Months
M&A advisor with the abovementioned Swiss based corporate finance firms. Acting as confidential
Blood grouping serology (IVD)
company. Business development and fund raising advisory. Secured VC investment.
M&A support, strategy and
integration consulting for analytical diagnostics company in the water/food/agri analysis and medical sectors.
Completed an asset acquisition in Italy.
Corporate finance. Medical and diagnostics industry
focus plus generalist CEE regional activity. Proprietary deal origination relationship with The Riverside
Company. Proprietary industrial and PE ties in Germany and USA. Working as
Manufacturer of hematology/ clinical chemistry instrumentation and reagents systems. The diagnostics platform
of THE RIVERSIDE COMPANY a global PE firm.
Primary duties/functions:
▪ Directed add-on acquisitions and global deal origination, analyzed and executed investments (including
investment memoranda, financial modeling, due-diligence); Provided business development support.
▪ Working closely, liaison with origination and transaction teams of Riverside and Diatron management;
Management of buy-side brokers.
▪ Board Secretary responsibilities, Board meeting preparations, management coaching. ▪ Creator and
Chairman of the Basic Research and Gap Strategy Committee.
Transaction and project experience:
▪ Transition management after the Riverside acquisition during 2006 H1
▪ Built add-on acquisition and Group strategy; Acquisitions completed: in CEE, Israel and Argentina
▪ Strong deal-flow in: DACH, Italy, Scandinavia and North America
▪ Originated then liaised technology transfer to China
▪ Organizing Strategic Planning Sessions; patron of 3-year planning projects
▪ Riverside’s “Best Information Memorandum achievement”
Startup CEO,
Largest and oldest global private
equity firm focused on acquiring growing enterprises valued at up to $200 million.
Primary duties/functions: Analyzing and executing investments, including IM writing, financial modeling,
DD. Deal sourcing and origination of targets in Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovakia and Poland. Support in
bank financing negotiations. Monitoring and Board functions in the portfolio companies.
Transaction and project experience: Carborundum Electrite, a Czech abrasives manufacturer; Spofa
Dental, leading non-metallic dental supplies producer (largest in CEE); Zetkama SA., an industrial valves,
fittings and specialized castings producer in Poland; Salgglas, leading glass fabricator in Hungary
A productivity and management consulting
company. Cost saving and increasing productivity projects for CEE manufacturing companies.
. Full-time work as part of sandwich year (3rd)
at the university. Rotation jobs in: General accounting, Manufacturing finance, Project management finance.
Thesis (“Intercompany Account Reconciliation”) awarded First Class by the university incl. no.1 achievement.