Thorsten has over 25 years of industry experience. He has served as Managing Director in Germany and France and has held responsibilities for global sales and manufacturing sites.productionon all continents. Thorsten began his careerteacherin 1996 in the French sales subsidiary of the German WIKA group. Until 2019, he held various management positions within the group in the areas of sales andmarketing, R&D, supply chain management andproduction. He led and restructuredbusinessinternational units with a turnover of up to 200 million euros. Under his responsibility, significant relocations of theproductiontook place from Germany to Poland and India, as well as the post-merger integration and restructuring of several business acquisitions in Italy, France and India.artSince 2017, he has initiated and led WIKA's IoT activities and has been acting Managing Director of start-technological ups in France. Since 2020, Thorsten Seefried has been an independent consultant and interim manager for industrial companies. In this capacity, he successfully completed several projects in the areas of turnarounds and mergers & acquisitions, integration, and post-merger restructuring in France, Germany, and Italy. At Exec Avenue and as Director of the Fran OfficeCFOrt, Thorsten brings over 20 years of operational experience in leading change and addressing the challenges associated with it. Organizational and management development as well as mediation between differentcultures and recruitment have always been the strong points of its activity.