Erwin Feldhaus

Current

Founder & CEO at Expertys Solutions

Past

Business Consultant (Self-employed)
Co-founder & CTO at b2build
Senior Test Engineer at Freightliner

Test Center Manager / Assistant VP Engineering at Mercedes-Benz México

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Education

INSEAD
Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen
Colegio Alemán Alexander von Humboldt

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Erwin Feldhaus’s Summary

Internationally experienced in general management, business development, pre-sales, partner management, customer services, professional services, training consultancy and every aspect of software development and implementation, including database expertise and technical support.

Accomplished leader in systems engineering and program management with a proven track record in planning and developing advanced business applications using state-of-the-art technologies. Experienced in both start-ups as well as large corporations.

Strengths include a unique combination of excellent communications and interpersonal skills, team building and the ability to think strategically and imaginatively.

Fluent in English, French, German, Spanish; basic Italian.

Erwin Feldhaus’s Specialties:

- More than 15 years of accumulated experience in management of internationally oriented, technology-intensive business.
- Functional expertise in general management, IT and finance.
- Cross-functional project management.
- Vast operational knowledge of financial services sector: operational and financial leasing
- Business development for innovative high growth ventures.

Erwin Feldhaus’s Experience

Founder & CEO

Expertys Solutions

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

November 2002 — Present (7 years 2 months)

Expertys is a software company devoted to the financial services sector. Our flagship product is a Web-centric ERP/CRM system for managing investments, leasing contracts and assets.

My job:
- Full P&L responsibility – funded venture exclusively with revenues and attained balanced P&L every fiscal year since creation.
- Develop the company’s customer base.
- Manage direct sales and set up agent and reseller sales channels.
- Conduct all project, development and product management.
- Direct the entire product design and development cycle from specification to production release.
- Manage all customer, contractor and investor relationships.
Business Consultant

Self-employed

(Self-Employed; Myself Only; Management Consulting industry)

June 2001 — November 2002 (1 year 6 months)

My offer: Supply interim management / coaching solutions for companies experiencing change.

- Coached an Italian e-business firm on setting up a b2b e-procurement offer. The company later went into the on-line auctions space.
- Performed b2bi requirements analysis for Alstom Power. Developed a lightweight b2b integration strategy for integrating disparate systems architectures across its locations.
- Coached a Mexican Alternative Energy company in defining and implementing their product diversification strategy.
- Assisted customers in assessing and procuring IT systems in accordance with their business needs.
Co-founder & CTO

b2build

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Internet industry)

January 2000 — July 2001 (1 year 7 months)

"first b2b marketplace for the European construction sector".
ASP providing e-business solutions for the European Construction Sector; 2001e revenues: EUR 2.3m; (Belgium, France, Germany). Company backed by Atlas Venture and Deutsche Bank.

- Managed technology budget of EUR 2.5m.
- Recruited and managed the engineering and R&D team.
- Formulated and supervised product and customer acquisition strategy.
- Formulated and implemented information security policy as per ISO 17799.
- Managed all relationships with subcontractors, hard- and software vendors.
- Directed the product design and development cycle from requirements expression to production release.
Senior Test Engineer

Freightliner

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Automotive industry)

January 1996 — December 1998 (3 years )

Freightliner: Commercial vehicle OEM (A DaimlerChrysler subsidiary), 151000 new vehicles in 2000, 16000 employees worldwide, Engineering and R&D: 1000 employees.

- Managed test, validation and verification of vehicle mechanisms.
- Managed the development of prototype trucks and supply chain of prototype parts and assemblies.
- Co-ordinated implementation of ISO 9001 compliant engineering practices.
- Integrated client-server based interactive information system with mainframe systems running MVS and DB2 to support prototype truck assembly and procurement activities.
- Developed data warehouse and reporting systems.
Test Center Manager / Assistant VP Engineering

Mercedes-Benz México

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Automotive industry)

May 1993 — January 1996 (2 years 9 months)

Mercedes-Benz México: Commercial vehicle division of DaimlerChrysler, 6000 new vehicles in 1995, 2000 employees.

- Managed test and product validation/verification of commercial vehicles.
- Managed profit centre to provide test services to parent company and other group companies.
- Formulated and implemented business process re-engineering of core business processes.
- Co-ordinated implementation of ISO 9001compliant practices.
- Developed and implemented an Industry/University co-operation framework.

Erwin Feldhaus’s Education

INSEAD

MBA , MBA , January 1999 — December 1999
Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen

Dipl.-Ing. , Mechanical Engineering , 1987 — 1993

Worked 4 years at the Fraunhofer Institute for Production Technology.

- Performed research in ultra-precision machining technologies (Nano-technology).
- Developed software for the graphic representation of optical elements used in laser interferometers.

Activities and Societies:

Played Handball in the highest Belgian league.
Colegio Alemán Alexander von Humboldt

Abitur , 1973 — 1986