Bio

Christopher is a natural scientist by background and studied math and physics at the University of Bielefeld. He joined McKinsey in 1995 working out of the Munich, Düsseldorf and the Chicago Offices on several projects in the automotive, machinery and semiconductor industries. He was the project leader for a global research project on the benefits of information technology “Do IT Smart” for production companies which included more than 80 companies across the world, published as a book in German and English. During his time at McKinsey, Christopher received a PhD in mechanical engineering from Darmstadt University. In 2003 he joined Orlando Management, a special situations fund manager in Munich working as an investment director and advisor to portfolio companies. In addition to his involvement in due diligence on potential and realized transactions, Christopher had overall responsibility as a CEO for two of the portfolio companies (Bally Wulff and Pallhuber) which were in a difficult situation. In both cases, Christopher achieved a successful turnaround. In 2008 he became a founding Partner of Perusa, a spin-off from Orlando. At Perusa Christopher built a team of investment professionals and took the lead on several transactions in different industries, amongst them the special paper factory Kämmerer. At the beginning of 2015 he left Perusa and together with a partner he bought Kämmerer from the Perusa fund. Today Christopher is co-owner of Kämmerer and a main shareholder of a corporate finance advisor.