The PRECI Team
Strategy, turnaround, transformation, leadership, technology, and execution.
Critical situations require more than a compelling résumé. What matters is whether people know the reality of a company from direct responsibility, can bring together different perspectives, and maintain clear boundaries.
PRECI combines three Senior Executive Partners in the field, independent mission control, and a dedicated Customer Relations contact into a solid system of complementary experience.
PRECI supports decisions. The decision remains with the company.
Executive Summary
Together, the three experts cover the full range from strategic direction to operational and technical reality. Horst brings together leadership, people, governance, and system logic. Wolfgang reviews projects, technology, development, resources, and feasibility. Johannes assesses whether decisions will hold up in the plant, production, planning, and supply chain.
As Mission Control, Karin keeps her distance from the field. She tests assumptions, counter-hypotheses, consistency, and decision quality. Sophie clarifies needs and fit, brings together the right Senior Executives, and remains the consistent point of contact throughout the collaboration.
For more than 30 years, Horst, Wolfgang, Johannes, and Karin have held responsibility for finance - from accounting and controlling to the balance sheet, including executive liability.
The roles intentionally overlap while remaining clearly separated. PRECI supports decisions. The decision remains with the company.
One umbrella. Five clear roles.
Strategy without operational reality remains theoretical. A turnaround without leadership viability will not last. Transformation without technical and organizational feasibility creates new fractures. Execution without independent quality assurance can easily follow a false assumption.
That is why PRECI brings together six fields in one shared perspective:
- Strategy: Make target visions, priorities and decision-making scope comparable.
- Business Turnaround: Consider performance pressure, operational disruptions and leadership reality together.
- Business Transformation: Bring structure, people, systems, and the capacity for change together.
- Leadership: Clarify roles, impact, communication, governance, and co-determination.
- Technology: Assess projects, development, maturity levels, and system architecture for feasibility.
- Execution: Evaluate decisions against resources, capacity, scheduling, and impact on results.
The people behind PRECI
In the field · Senior Executive Partner
Integration, strategy and leadership
Horst
Managing shareholder and Senior Executive Partner
Executive Summary
Horst brings together what falls apart under pressure: strategy and operational reality, people and structure, leadership and governance, co-determination and system logic. His work takes place at the owner, executive management and leadership levels. He structures conflicting objectives, makes options comparable, and integrates operational, technical and quality-related perspectives into an overall picture that supports clear decisions.
Profile and impact
More than 30 years of leadership responsibility as an entrepreneur, executive and interim manager form the foundation. His experience ranges from mechanical engineering and his own CAD/CAM systems company to CxO, HR, turnaround and restructuring mandates. This includes the consolidation of an IT business unit with revenue responsibility of more than EUR 10 million, plant HR management in the plastics and chemical industries, and negotiations with employee representatives. He was named DDIM Interim Manager of the Year.
At PRECI, Horst keeps the overall structure together and is responsible for all supporting, non-productive service functions. He clarifies leadership roles, leadership impact, leadership communication, governance and escalation paths. At the same time, he assesses whether IT and system landscapes support effective decision-making and operations. His role is integration and decision facilitation.
Areas of impact
- Strategic clarification and executive sparring
- Leadership, governance, and co-determination
- Organizational and HR reorganization
- IT, systems, and decision logic
- Integration of different findings
- Supporting, non-productive service areas
Technology, projects and feasibility
Wolfgang
Senior Executive Partner, independent | Advisory Board | Projects, Technology and R&D
Executive Summary
Wolfgang assesses whether strategic requirements are technically, organizationally and from a project perspective feasible. His field begins where project status indicators, resources, maturity levels and timelines no longer show the same picture. He connects technology, project logic and organization.
Profile and impact
More than 20 years of line, project and executive management responsibility in mechanical and plant engineering, automotive, special-purpose machinery, and environmental and process technology form the basis. His positions include overall responsibility for a special-purpose machinery project in Taiwan with a team of 80 employees, leading a development project for a press series across Germany and China, and overall project management for three parallel plant engineering projects.
Further experience comes from managing an environmental technology company and from leading development and design with 35 employees. At PRECI, Wolfgang assesses projects, programs, development and innovation logic for maturity level, resources, critical paths, risk and connectivity.
Areas of impact
- Project and program stabilization
- Engineering, development, innovation and R&D
- Maturity levels, resources and critical paths
- Technical and organizational reorganization
- Feasibility and project communication
Turnaround, operations and bottom-line reality
Johannes
Senior Executive Partner, independent | Advisory Board | Operations and bottom-line reality
Executive Summary
Johannes brings operational reality into every strategic and structural decision. He assesses whether a direction is viable in production, SCM, planning, quality and day-to-day leadership. His benchmark is the impact on the shop floor.
Profile and impact
More than 30 years of responsibility for plants and sites as a Plant Manager, Managing Director, and VP Operations shape his profile. He led and restructured production sites in the plastics and film industry, with responsibility for up to 1,000 employees and revenues of up to EUR 280 million. Twelve years of his responsibility were abroad, in Spain, Austria, and Finland.
His proven experience includes the turnaround of three production sites in Germany and the USA, the development and consolidation of an international production network, and the management of a film manufacturer during a restructuring program. At PRECI, Johannes evaluates options relating to capacity, supply chain, planning logic, KPI impact, and operational feasibility.
Areas of impact
- Plant and site management
- Turnaround and operational restructuring
- Production, SCM, planning and logistics
- KPI, quality and performance logic
- Industrialization, ramp-up and site consolidation
Mission Control and Decision Quality
Karin
Shareholder and Senior Executive Partner | Mission Control
Executive Summary
Karin ensures the quality of the overall picture. In Mission Control, she deliberately works at a distance from the field. She checks whether findings are complete, assumptions are visible, conclusions are consistent, and options are prepared in a viable way.
Profile and impact
For more than 30 years, Karin has worked where entrepreneurial decisions are made, mostly in the background and consistently as an equal partner. For more than 20 of those years, she was self-employed as an entrepreneur. Her experience spans industrial and service companies in transformation, change, and turnaround contexts.
Her Mission Control develops counter-hypotheses, separates facts from scenarios, and reviews causal, prioritization, and decision-making logic across all roles. This is complemented by sparring and mentoring for senior roles, as well as values-based diagnostics with ValueProfilePlus. The distance from the field protects against operational blind spots and premature conclusions.
Areas of impact
- Counter-hypotheses and consistency review
- Decision-making and quality integrity
- Fact-scenario separation
- Review of assumptions, approvals and open issues
- Sparring, mentoring and values-based diagnostics
Client Relations
Sophie
Director of Client Relations
Executive Summary
Collaboration begins with Sophie. She clarifies the need, reviews the fit together with the Senior Executive Partners, and maintains the connection between prospective client, customer, and PRECI. She is the consistent point of contact from the first approach through ongoing support.
Profile and impact
Sophie brings several years of experience in customer service and sales responsibility at an internationally active staffing and interim management provider. She understands the situation of companies seeking support under pressure and the differences between filling a role and first clarifying the actual need.
At PRECI, she is responsible for the customer relations front end. She conducts initial conversations, clarifies the need, coordinates appointments, participant groups, and preliminary information, and remains available throughout the collaboration. The professional assessment of the company's situation is carried out by the Senior Executive Partners.
Areas of impact
- Initial contact and needs assessment
- Fit assessment with the Senior Executive Partners
- Selection of the right contacts
- Coordination of scheduling, participants, and information
- Ongoing client support
Executive profiles and CVs in detail
Executive Profile and CV
Horst
Managing shareholder and Senior Executive Partner
Executive profile
An integrative leadership and decision-making figure for situations in which strategy, leadership, people, governance, and system logic no longer work together cleanly. Horst structures conflicting objectives, moderates decision spaces, and brings together different professional findings into comparable options.
Leadership experience
- More than 30 years of leadership responsibility as an entrepreneur, executive, and interim manager
- Mandates ranging from small businesses to corporations with more than 150,000 employees
- Consolidation of an IT business unit with revenue responsibility of more than EUR 10 million
- Plant HR management and turnaround support at two sites in the plastics and chemicals industry
- Experience in CxO, HR, governance, and co-determination
Selected leadership positions
Entrepreneur and Systems Integration Business
Built and led an in-house CAD/CAM systems company. Combined mechanical engineering, IT, customer requirements, and entrepreneurial responsibility.
IT Business Unit
Consolidation of a unit with revenue responsibility of more than EUR 10 million. Clarified structure, leadership, and system logic.
Plant Workforce and Turnaround
Took on a demanding mandate at two sites in the plastics and chemical industries. The mandate was extended several times after the takeover.
Governance and Co-Determination
Negotiations with employee representatives, introduction of a collectively agreed salary model, and harmonization of evolved works agreements.
Areas of expertise
- Strategic clarification and executive sparring
- Turnaround and restructuring
- Leadership, leadership impact, and leadership communication
- Governance, HR, and co-determination
- Organizational development
- AI/IT from business to development
Education
- Training as a foundry pattern maker
- Mechanical engineering degree, specializing in design engineering
Qualifications and credentials
- Axiological aptitude diagnostician, ValueProfilePlus
- Quality Management Representative, IT Security Officer and Data Protection Officer
- ISO 9001 and ISO/IEC 27001
- Awards: DDIM Interim Manager of the Year, BVMW Entrepreneur of the Year D-A-CH, TOP Innovator, TOP Employer, 12 SME and innovation awards
Role at PRECI
Horst is responsible for the firm's strategic direction and works on client assignments as a Senior Executive Partner. He is responsible for all supporting, non-productive service areas and integrates perspectives from operations, engineering, projects, and mission control into a consistent overall picture.
PRECI supports decisions. The client decides.
Executive Profile and CV
Wolfgang
Senior Executive Partner, independent | Advisory Board | Projects, Technology and R&D
Executive profile
Senior Executive and Interim Manager for projects, programs, development, and technical-organizational reorganization. Wolfgang examines whether planning and reality align. His benchmarks are maturity level, resources, critical paths, timelines, and the connectivity between development, engineering, and production.
Leadership experience
- More than 20 years of responsibility in line management, projects and executive management
- Mechanical and plant engineering, automotive, special-purpose machinery, environmental and process engineering
- International project responsibility in Europe and Asia
- Leadership of project, development and design teams
- Reorganization of companies and technical departments
Selected leadership positions
Special Machinery Project in Taiwan
Overall responsibility for a project with a team of 80 employees. Responsibility for safety approval, risk and quality assessment, supplier management, and end-customer negotiations.
Press Series in the Automotive Sector
Led a development project across sites in Germany and China, including design adaptations for local manufacturing.
Overall Project Management in Plant Engineering
Coordinated three parallel projects, built effective controlling, and led around 40 employees.
Managing Director, Environmental Technology
Reorganized an environmental technology company, revised the product portfolio and organization, and realigned the target markets through to the sale of the company.
Head of Development and Design
Led 35 employees. Reorganized operations, improved project management, increased on-time delivery, and streamlined interfaces between departments.
Areas of expertise
- Project and program stabilization
- Engineering, development, innovation and R&D
- Maturity, resource and risk analysis
- Technical and organizational structural clarification
- Project portfolio and critical paths
- International supplier and customer environments
Education
- Training as a toolmaker
- Business economist
- Degree in mechanical engineering, specializing in design, with a doctorate
Qualifications
- Training as an individual psychology coach
- Training as a high-performance coach
Role at PRECI
Wolfgang is responsible for the perspective of project, engineering, development, and implementation reality. He assesses strategic options in terms of feasibility, risk, resource requirements, and organizational fit.
PRECI supports decisions. The client decides.
Executive Profile and CV
Johannes
Senior Executive Partner, independent | Advisory Board | Operations and bottom-line reality
Executive profile
Senior Executive and Interim Manager for plant management, turnaround, and operational performance reality. Johannes translates figures, processes, and leadership impact into a reliable picture of the actual situation. He assesses whether strategic and structural decisions at the plant are economically and operationally sound.
Leadership experience
- More than 30 years of leading production sites
- Roles as plant manager, managing director, and VP Operations
- Responsibility for up to 1,000 employees
- Revenue and P&L responsibility of up to EUR 280 million
- Twelve years of international experience in Spain, Austria, and Finland
Selected leadership positions
Turnaround of Three Production Sites
Operational restructuring and realignment of sites in Germany and the USA with 750 employees and EUR 280 million in revenue. Including investment management and S&OP optimization.
International Production Network
Development and consolidation of a production network across Germany, Finland, and Vietnam with around 1,000 employees and EUR 180 million in revenue. This included the merger of two sites.
Managing Director of a Film Manufacturer
Responsibility for 720 employees and EUR 220 million in revenue. Implementation of a restructuring program while stabilizing production performance at the same time.
Scaling a business unit
Expansion of a site from 120 to 170 employees and a 20 percent increase in revenue to EUR 55 million in the refined composite films segment.
Quality and plant systems
Establishment of a quality management system through to ISO 9001 certification and commissioning of new plant technologies.
Areas of expertise
- Plant and site management
- Turnaround and operational restructuring
- Production, SCM, planning and logistics
- Shopfloor management, TPM, 5S, continuous improvement, and Six Sigma
- Quality and KPI systems
- Site consolidation and international production networks
Education, Standards and Languages
- Dipl.-Ing. (TH) in Mechanical Engineering, specializing in plastics technology, RWTH Aachen
- Certified Interim Manager
- ISO 9001 and ISO 50001
- GMP, HACCP and BRC
- Fluent in German, English and Spanish
Role at PRECI
Johannes is responsible for the operations and performance reality perspective. He reviews the plant, production, SCM, planning, quality, capacity, and KPI impact, and assesses strategic options for their economic and operational viability.
PRECI supports decisions. The client decides.
What these profiles demonstrate
The positions, scope of responsibility, and qualifications presented demonstrate experience and professional credibility.
PRECI supports decision-making, prepares options, and assesses their operational, technical, and organizational viability. Solely binding decisions and corporate responsibility remain with the client.
