"Learning is like rowing against the tide - once you stop you're drifting backwards" Laotse
Dr. Wolfgang Rohrbeck
Dipl. Phys.
married, one son
Am Anger 20 - 42281 Wuppertal
Phone: +49 202 2701317 - Fax: +49 202 2701318
since 1998 | Interim Management / Management Consultant / Expert Interim management; strategic repositioning; change management; turn-around management; |
1996 - 1997 | Member of the Executive Board of Directors (COO) Glunz AG responsible for Sales, Marketing, Engineering and Production; Wood processing industrie;2 Mrd. DM turnover; 6300 employees; |
1991 - 1996 | Member of the Executive Board of Directors (COO) Quante AG responsible for Sales, Marketing, Engineering and part of the daughter companies overseas; Telecommunication industry; 600 Mio. DM turnover; 2600 employees; |
1988 - 1991 | Director Quante AG (Prokurist) General Manager Business Unit Telecommunications systems, responsible for Sales, Marketing and Engineering; 80 Mio. DM turnover; 70 employees; |
1987 - 1988 | Managing Director Quante Lasertechnik GmbH responsible for Marketing and Sales; Telecommunications industry; 60 Mio. DM turnover; 50 employees; |
1984 - 1987 | Director of Marketing and Sales Quante Lasertechnik GmbH 40 Mio. DM turnover; 10 employees; |
1982 - 1984 | Project Manager Quante Lasertechnik GmbH Management of pilot projects of the German Deutsche Bundespost for the introduction of broadband services on optical fibre; BIGFON, Berlin III, Berlin IV, 34 Mbit/s and 140 Mbit/s; |
1978 - 1982 | Scientific Employee at the Institute for Applied Physics of the University of Bonn; |
1981 | Fulbright Scholar and Post Doctoral Fellow at the Harvard Smithsonian Centre for Astrophysics, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA; |
1980 | PhD (Dr. rer. nat.) in physics (summa cum laude); |
1972 - 1978 | Study of physics, University of Bonn, graduation as Diplom Physiker (summa cum laude); |
1968 - 1972 | Military service signalling corps, German army (last rank Oberleutnant); |
1960 - 1968 | Schillergymnasium Cologne, Abitur; |
1956 - 1960 | Evangelische Volksschule Lochnerstraße, Cologne; |
7.5.1949 | born in Neubrandenburg, Mecklenburg - Vorpommern; |
Languages : | German (mother tongue), English (fluent), French (basic) |
"To know what you know and to know what you do - that is knowledge" Confucius