Executive and Supervisory Board

Dr. Markus studied business administration in St. Gallen, Switzerland, and in Copenhagen, and was awarded a Ph.D. also from St. Gallen and from Harvard University, Boston, United States.

Dr. Markus has been involved with the restructuring and further development of companies for more than 15 years, starting as a consultant with McKinsey & Company and then with an exchange-listed industrial holding company.

During this time, he was responsible for more than 40 corporate transactions, including the acquisition and restructuring of Tesion Telekom, the baby carriage manufacturer Teutonia, the TV station RTL Shop, the SKW Stahl-Metallurgie Group and the Blaupunkt Group.

After studying physics in Leipzig and Lausanne, Mr. Purkert worked for McKinsey & Company, where he gathered experience in process improvements, cost reduction programs and strategic restructuring programs.

After that, he co-founded equinet AG in Frankfurt, an investment bank with about 120 employees today, advising mainly small to medium-sized enterprises. As a member of the Executive Board of the Group's portfolio company, he was responsible for conducting numerous M&A transactions and for managing the portfolio companies.

Ulrich Radlmayr studied law in Hamburg, Aix-en-Provence (France) and Munich.

After serving his required legal internship with the Free State of Bavaria, he worked for five years as a lawyer with P+P Pöllath + Partners, specializing in private equity and M&A. In that role, he advised on numerous, large-volume buy-out transactions, private equity investments and investments in "special situations" on behalf of prestigious institutional investors.

In 2006, he co-founded the law firm AFR Aigner Fischer Radlmayr, Munich, which provides mainly legal and tax-related advice on corporate transactions such as the acquisition, sale, restructuring and financing of companies.

 After studying economics at Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich, Mr. Albrecht worked in the Corporate Development Department of Deutsche Bahn AG, where he gathered experience in process improvements, cost reduction programs and strategic restructuring programs.

After that, he moved to finance at Pricap Venture Partners AG (Thomas Matzen Group), a venture capital and private equity firm. He worked there for six years as an investment manager vested with power of commercial representation under German law (Prokura); during this time, he managed more than 20 transactions, from the initial investment to the IPO stage.

After earning a degree in business administration in 1986, Dirk Roesing began his career in the Internal Audit and Treasury Departments of Daimler Benz AG. From 1994 to 1996, he headed the Controlling und M&A Departments of VOBIS AG, a company of the Metro Group. After that, he served as European Finance Director and German Managing Director for the international Amer Sport Group. From 1997 to 2003, Dirk Roesing served as the Chief Financial Officer of telegate AG. From 2003 to 2009, Dirk Roesing served as the Executive Board Chairman of SHS Viveon AG, since the end of 2009 he is Supervisory Board Chairman. Since December 1, 2010 he is partner of BrainsToVenture AG.

Eugen M. Angster holds a master's degree in geology from Munich University and an MBA in International Business and Finance from the European University in Geneva. After nearly 10 years of holding various management positions in Germany and abroad for Wacker Chemie GmbH and Hoechst AG, he was responsible for establishing and managing the German Business Center (Haus der Deutschen Wirtschaft) in Shanghai. After that, he worked for several years in Japan as a senior executive in charge of the Asia and Pacific business of Deutsche Telekom AG. Since 2001, he has been working in the area of corporate restructuring and turnarounds both before and after insolvency proceedings. As Managing Director of Interim International GmbH, he oversees the operational restructuring of companies in turnaround situations, acts as an agent for interim managers and staffs top management positions. He is the founder and Executive Board Chairman of the Corporate Restructuring Association Germany (CRAG).

After studying industrial engineering at the Technical University of Darmstadt Mr Schulze began his career as Senior Analyst Global Internal Audit at Procter & Gamble Services in Brussels/Belgium. Following several other posts within the Procter & Gamble Group – in his last position he held global financial responsibility for the distribution logistics and the customer service of the perfume business with a budget responsibility of more than 100 million euros and twelve employees – he joined McKinsey & Company as project manager. There he led projects for clients of the consumer goods, pharmaceutical and telecommunications industry in Germany, Romania, Switzerland, the UK and the US.

Since the beginning of 2010 he acts as managing director of CC CaloryCoach Holding GmbH – a company running a franchise system of more than 120 sites in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.