Services

Growth via innovations and internationalization,

with accompanying risk management

Business development from initial status to turn around for ongoing improvements, interim managing of change processes, international expansion development.

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References from start-up scenarios to 150-year-old corporates - see below.

Scope

Industry focus:

- IT, retail operation & financial services incl. M&A transition,

- mobile solutions,

- X-large IT program management including production & individual output management

New topics such as

eCommerce & PSP, mobile payments,
smart city environments, IoT, connected devices,
artificial intelligence, speech recognition,
CRM, data analytics, ...

References

Pivotal project examples

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Creditanstalt -> Bank Austria (Uni Credit)

IBM/ Texas Instruments Information Engineering
IT Development support, core banking methodology for +350MY developments
After take over (CA->BA) to be selected as surviving core banking platform by new owner

Management Data -> Geac -> 3i

SWIFT Data Interface management and transfer
IT Product with world wide customer base and support structure
2 times a take over within one year - keep +150 FTE of R&D stable - commercial and technical success till today

Austria Card I

National Bank of Austria
R&D smart chip development, set up of a true sales operation to cover +30 countries
Winning of more than +300 international customers and more than 10x profitability increase, from Norway to Turkey, with same number of internal employees

Austria Card II

National Bank of Austria
-> Inform P. Lykos, Athens
M & A: all stages within 1 year successfully executed, positive earn out after 3Y
Successful selection and negotiation process, closing and post-merger integration from governmentally-owned to stock listed company

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Oberthur Technologies

Transition from family-owned to private equity world
Manage transition phase within North Europe, DACH, Central Europe and SEE (25 countries, 11 sites)
Continuous growth of revenue & profit, prepare international structure to go for next IPO phase (today: IDEMIA)

International IT-Security

Privately owned group of companies with payment and ID & eID background
Support of business development in the SEE region
Market entry in +6 countries with 2 key regional XL-customers, evaluate governmental eID with special interfaces for private economy & mobility

International Banking

Ongoing consulting for a major banking group
Improve supply chain, technology innovation and digitalization in banking
Supply chain savings about €6Mio within a 3 months project, identify major innovations by starting exchange with other banking groups in DACH region and beyond

Start-Ups (DACH, F,…)

Ongoing consulting for several start-ups in DACH and France
Improvement of marketing communication, target group approach and initial sales process set-up
Marketing & sales to a major EU market region of about 250Mio inhabitants, market feed back within 3 month and creating a qualified pipeline within 6 months