Michael Huber

Herr Michael Huber hat nach seiner Lehre als Werkzeugmacher im Formenbau im Jahr 1988 seine Ingenieurqualifikation als Dipl. Ing. (FH) Maschinenbau an der Fachhochschule für Technik in Esslingen erworben. Berufsbegleitend studierte er dann an der Fernfachhochschule Brigg (Schweiz), in Zusammenarbeit mit der Fachhochschule Reutlingen, Exportökonomie und erwarb dort die akademische Qualifikation als Diplom Exportökonom (FH). In den Jahren 1998 und 1999 belegte Herr Huber ebenso berufsbegleitend die A.I.M Seminare für Business Executives am Center of Economic and Business Studies der University of Basel.

Mr. Huber is an internationally experienced executive in the automotive supply and manufacturing industry, with more than 30 years of professional experience. As a sales manager or sales director, he is the driver of a holistic strategy development process and the motivator in its successful implementation. This is only possible with motivated people - therefore his credo is " Leading and motivating through exemplary behavior, diligence, trustworthiness and candor".

As C-Level-Interim Manager and Senior Executive Partner of SEViX GmbH, Mr. Huber passionately faces the challenges of business enterprises with an entrepreneurial spirit, which - in the VUCA world - companies must face today and in the future.

Mentally robust, coupled with a situational measure of empathy, he has an illusion-less understanding of economic reality. In the transformation process, Mr. Huber deals with the real situation of the company in the industry environment, filters out the core problems and their implications. In the transformation process he brings in ideas and insights of the employees, colleagues, customers, suppliers and institutions into a new value creation architecture in an extremely effective way.

As a basis for measurable success in the transformation, he provides clear objectives with pack-ages of measures, responsibilities and accompanying controlling. Ambiguities are eliminated. Ex-isting processes are reviewed under the aspect of LEAN and best practice and, if necessary, new ones are created. He conveys his mindset of consistent orientation towards market require-ments and customer demands within the company, thus enabling the company to adapt to existing and future challenges in the competitive environment. Mr. Huber is also a strong advocate of digit-ization in companies as an important basis for decision-making (K D F key performance indicators, data, facts).

Due to his long and broad management experience as CSO, Sales Director, member of the Group Division Management and Board of Directors in various internationally operating companies, Mr. Huber has solid practical experience in the

• Strategy development and implementation in globally operating companies
• Retention and expansion of the customer base
• Realignment and structuring of sales and key account management
• Erhöhung der Profitabilität durch konsequentes agieren an der Kundenfront (Bsp: gelebtes Change Management im Produktentwicklungsprozess, Forderungsmanagement)
• Increase of profitability by consequent acting on the customer front (e.g., practiced change management in the product development process, professional receivables management)
• Post-merger integration

With candor and reliability, Mr. Huber quickly establishes trust as the basis for effective collaboration with stakeholders. As a result, he is able to decrease resistance, mistrust, and departmental thinking, and improve team performance. Proven success in executing process and performance improvements in sales, customer service and project management, customer development in post-insolvency, merger and post-merger integration, and M&A activities for product portfolio expansion distinguish Mr. Huber. Mr. Huber stays on top of his game through his lecturing activities at the Nürtingen-Geislingen University of Applied Sciences, the Institute for Automotive Economics (IFA) and his voluntary work in the social sector.

His mottos are: "Problems don't count - only solutions" and "Nothing comes from nothing."