Bodo-Joachim Wendenburg

Bodo-Joachim Wendenburg

Interim Management Focus

  • CFO/CRO in restructuring, turnaround, special situations
  • Post-merger Integration (PMI)
  • Refinancing and recapitalization
  • International M&A activities in PE/industry
  • Top-line growth initiatives

Bodo-Joachim Wendenburg is Partner at Executive Interim Partners.

Bodo has more than twenty years of experience as an entrepreneurial CFO, with strong operational focus in leading international FMCG-companies, especially in transformation processes. Additionally, he worked four years in a Private Equity company, which invested only in special situations, both on the shareholder and on the investment side.

Bodo started his professional career in well-known companies of the consumer goods industry. At Beiersdorf AG he started as a Financial Controller in Germany and later in México City, before he took over the Controlling department of the family-owned Carl Kühne KG in Hamburg, followed by the Citibank Consumer business Controlling department in Düsseldorf.

As part of the founder team, he was an Investment Manager of Capital Management Partners (CMP) GmbH in Berlin, a PE company, which exclusively invested in transformation and restructuring situations. At Wolff & Olsen, a family-owned fashion company, he executed as Managing Director/CFO different restructuring projects. As Managing Director/CFO of the family-owned Intersnack group in Cologne, he was in charge of the German financial business and led different cash flow enhancing projects.

His strength lies in the execution of restructurings, reorganizations and post-merger integrations. Besides the development of new concepts, he loves to drive the operational implementation of the aligned strategic initiatives. He is very effective in conducting high-level negotiations with banks, shareholders and works councils. Due to his international background, he relies on a strong intercultural and communication competence and a clear assessment of what is possible in different environments and situations.

His industrial experience covers the areas of Fast-Moving-Consumer-Goods, Fashion, Food, Retail and Private Equity.

Bodo holds a diploma in Business Administration from the Ludwig-Maximilians-University in Munich. He is a native German speaker; his level of English is excellent, and his level of Spanish is good.

Selected Interim- and Line Management References

  • Interim Chief Financial Officer in a Fashion company; execution of restructuring concept and steering the investment process
  • Interim Chief Financial Officer in an IT company for a large-scale industrialist. Successfully sold shares after 15 months
  • Successfully raised funds for a Start-Up; executed different capital increases
  • Interim CFO/CEO in an Engineering company. Reengineering of the main business processes, development and implementation of a new marketing & sales strategy
  • CFO/Managing Director of a Food company
    • Planned and executed a post-merger integration; activities included a factory closure with social plan, sale-lease-back of a factory and integration of sales and IT
    • Expanded innovative production capacity by entering a strategic partnership, including negotiation and concluding a 50/50 share deal
    • Created a value improvement program marked by a holistic business focus with clear strategic objectives; interdisciplinary work and creating additional cash flow
  • CFO/Managing Director of a Fashion Company
    • Determined the group`s strategic alignment and steered group operations jointly with the CEO
    • Implemented different efficiency improvement programs in the Fashion division, resulting in a cost decrease of approx. 9 M €, e.g. outsourced operative logistics, transferred 45 employees, etc.
    • Reorganized the Non-Food Division, realizing turnaround from a negative EBIT to double-digit positive EBIT-level within 18 months
    • Carved out and divested the Food Division: sale of 10 entities in six countries through various asset and share deals
    • Orchestrated the corporate financing, managing the pool of seven banks, as well as the factoring bank and credit insurers
  • Concluded two asset and share deals of CMP; assumed interim roles of CFO/CRO in both companies in order to execute company realignments

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