Jürgen Mohrhauer

     

    A highly experienced Chemical Expert with more than 35 years of practice in chemical production, strategic planning, sales & marketing, business management and -finance and an experienced Senior Consultant and Advisor to the chemical and related Industries.

     

    Before founding JM Chemsult and working as Senior Consultant and Managing Director, he acted as an independent senior advisor to the chemical industry and project manager to 3rd party funded projects, gaining additional expertise on specifics in channel-to-market strategies and M+A.

     

    Starting his career with the Dow Chemical Company as a design- and development engineer for the process design department in Germany, he soon moved to production leadership roles in the chlorinated organics business. With the acquisition of the former East German chemical industry after the unification, we was engaged in business analysis and strategic planning of the newly formed enterprise (Horgen, CH), including the sale of the PVC business and the set-up of a new specialty resins department, for which he had manufacturing and finance functional responsibility (Schkopau,D).

     

    He took over the full management accountability for the “Hydrocarbon Resins” business as Marketing and Operations Manager and Managing Director of a JV with a Japanese partner (Arakawa Europe GmbH, Schwalbach D), which he successfully led through a significant profitable growth period and for which he had been instrumental in setting up a few years earlier. After the strategic sale of the business to the JV partner he became a member of a Global Project “Health and Wellness”, responsible for Finance, being able to make significant contributions to the valuation of these new markets and was an essential link into external industry experts for the projects' financial evaluation.

    As the Global Finance Leader for DowWolff Cellulosics Business (Walsrode, D) he had the opportunity to be involved in the integration of specialty chemicals business units acquired from Bayer AG and was responsible for the functional transformation into market-aligned units, for the short-term and strategic assessment and planning (S&OP) for the “Food, Pharma and Industrial Specialty” units.

     

    An experienced practitioner in many aspects of manufacturing, strategic planning and evaluation, business set-up and development, project management and business finance, including significant JV experience, he is aware of the different needs and approaches of several types of chemical operations internationally.

     

    Jürgen graduated from the Technical University of Dortmund (D) with a Master Degree in Chemical Engineering (Ms Sc, Dipl-Ing. TU) in 1987, having specialized in Mechanical and Thermal Process Technology and in “Construction and Operation of Chemical Production Units”.

     

    During his hands-on operations responsibilities he visited extra-occupational lectures on “Economics for Engineers” at the University of Hagen (Fernuniversität, GER) for further qualification in management roles. He has sucessfully attended courses with VDI, GdCh, MCE, ECMSA and KPMG for professional advancement, as well as several development-practises for soft-, people- and management-skills. He is an IPMA-Certified Project Manager, fluent in English and German and works internationally out of the Zürich / Switzerland area.