About us

Olaf POINTEAU

Managing Director

As an interim operations manager, I work for SMEs with a production activity. To do this, I take on the following roles:

  • corporate project management, for value creation, operational excellence, or industrial project management,
  • leadership, as managing director, plant manager or COO (5 to 150 people).


Areas of expertise :

  • Industrial performance - production, services and technical services (leadership, strategy, organisation and technique, lean management, mentoring, project management),
  • Financial performance (cash planning, P&L responsibility, budget management, process cost analysis, CAPEX),
  • Areas:

1) Industrial and technology companies in B2B markets: machine building, railways, metal, plastics and rubber processing,

2) Technical services: industrial maintenance, ECM4 rail vehicle maintenance.

  • Intervention throughout all Europe, mainly in French- and German-speaking countries.


Contexts: transformation, growth, reorganisation (performance improvement, crisis management, etc.).


I specialise in Franco-German business relations.

GEFRECOM

Germany

+49 (0)176 9979 7602

o.pointeau@gefrecom.com

Thomas DROSTEN

Managing Director

What I stand for


In difficult situations and vacancies, I take on operational roles to ensure that day-to-day business runs smoothly and safely. In doing so, I encourage employees to be autonomous. I see myself as a passionate defender of self-learning organisations and the transfer of knowledge. As a long-standing manager and entrepreneur, I am able to take people along with me, even in very difficult projects.


What characterises and drives me

  • Results-oriented - Honest - Solid - Determined - Reliable - Organised
  • Working with people - Change - Achieving goals


Positions

Management - Project management - Business development


Priority business sectors

Special machinery, Tooling, Chemicals, Commercial Refrigeration, Metallurgy and Plastics Industry

Serial production (build to stock), Production per unit (build to order – One Piece Flow).

SMEs & large companies


Contexts

M&A - due diligence, mergers, restructuring in critical business situations, delocalisation, SCM

Experience with works councils and trade unions,

Europe-wide and especially in the Franco-German business environment

NATO Group

France

+33 (0) 682 084 058

thomas.drosten@cmo-europe.com