Team

Thim Werner

Thim is a passionate business strategist, multiple entrepreneur and sales architect with 18+ years of executive experience in the German market.

Ute Janßen

Ute is a senior communicator and belongs to the backbone of our team in long-term projects. Her passion for people, language and challenges is unique and therefore an important ‘door opener’ into heavy key accounts.

Sabine Ophey

Sabine has vast experience in designing campaigns and building up brands in the German market. BDG is fortunate to have such a capacity in our team.

Kristin Huckauf

Kristin has been on board since the beginning and her marketing support is extremely helpful, when foreign clients need a “German twist".

Martina Mantei-Bellingen

As an expert in communication and always with a friendly smile, Ms Mantei-Bellingen prepares appointments and reaches out to German companies on behalf of our foreign clients.

Katja Adams

Katja loves a challenge and runs marathons. She is often in charge of technical projects.

Jana Cremer

Ms. Cremer always starts a call with a smile and is excellent at preparing meetings and new business contacts for our clients.

Jonas Gerbersmann

While finalizing his studies as sociologist, Jonas is supporting us with making high quality contacts and opening doors for our foreign clients.

Uwe Christensen

Uwe is an independent business partner of BDG and runs his own sales agency and comes to support the BDG network, when a thorough and systematic approach is needed.

Eva-Maria Breddin

Ms. Breddin helps us to open the right doors and to build up valuable relationships with German decision-markets on behalf of our clients.

Lorenz Thaden

Lorenz is an expert for online marketing and quite literally a digital native. He helps us with to create new websites and to implement digital projects.

Tim Bauer

Entrepreneurial and sales-driven, Tim develops website projects on full scale and is known to run an extra mile, not only digitally.

Ruben Wojtczyk

Ruben is a master with words and helps formulating claims and communication that will delight the targeted audiences in the German market.

Daniel Wood

Daniel builds his sales experience on 20 years of experience and suits our team with his pragmatism and his MBA!

Herbert Adams

With a great experience Mr. Adams gives us access to important connections in Germany. He has worked with and for big enterprises and disposes over an excellent network.

Gerhard Hess

Mr. Hess is a multiple entrepreneur himself and played a role in starting BDG. He is an expert in strategy and knows what it takes to build up a business in Germany.

Klaus Kreutzer

Based in Munich, Klaus is an expert in the German energy sector a capacity in the field of innovative sales solutions.

Gregor Specht

Gregor Specht has decades of experience in project management of highly technical projects and deep insights in the German automotive industry.

Jochen Grotenhöfer

Jochen has a vast experience assisting complex management transformation processes, is a brilliant mind and a strategic competence.

Klaus Piske

With more than 25 years of experience in marketing, Klaus is able to help with target group analysis and mailing campaigns.

Tobias Tanner

American born, Tobias has been in Germany for more than 15 years now and followed BDG from the beginning. He has started several companies himself and has today one of the most interesting lifestyle facilitators in Berlin.

Jörg Reents

Jörg has over 20 years of experience in successfully bringing foreign clients onto the the German market and is our expert for the search of distributors for a swift and efficient market launch. He operates from Hamburg and is known for a sharp definition of target groups and superb results.

Lis Nørgaard

Lis has advised Danish companies focussing on research of client groups, professional matchmaking as well as marketing. With an extensive knowledge of German culture and much know-how in several industries, Lis has accompanied numerous Danish companies in setting up their activities in Germany.

Melih Coskun

Melih has an international profile and specializes in M&A and Buy-outs, areas of increasing relevance in the BDG group.

Volker Bannasch

Volker is strong in process management, GDPR and reorganization of SME and big companies. He leads his own successful, specialized consultancy in Cologne.

Sita Schubert

Sita has a legal background and is a business partner from Cologne. Her specialty is to support medical companies with their market entry and development in Germany.

Martti Mävry

Martti is located in Kerava, Finland and represents BDG in the Finish market. With his vast experience in expansion, he supports Finish companies coming to Germany.

Jiten Khatavkar

With an office in Bengaluru in South India, Jiten is head of our activities there and organizes meetings and events.

Abinav Kumar

Abinav is an expert in business development and sales and specialized on Indo-European business relationships.

Ramanujan Gopala

Ramanujan is an entrepreneur himself and also MD in one of our Indian daughter-daughter companies. Rama, as he is referred to mostly, is internationally active and leads a team of 140 people.

Simmy Mishra

Simmy is our Indian pearl and head of the office in Pune in North India. She is an engineer herself and in the function of project-coordinator for mostly technical projects between India and Germany.

Yagev Ben Itzhak

With an international background and huge experience in business strategy, Yagev is based in Tel Aviv and helps Israeli companies and especially start-ups with internationalization.

Gideon Wechsler

Based in Tel Aviv, Gideon represents the BDG organization in Israel and has decades of experience in business management and developement.

ANNA LENA MANTEI

With a degree in psychology and a fondness for analytical precision, Anna Lena supports our projects in the background and assists the management.

Dennis Nabholz

Dennis is excellent with finding industrial informaiton and one of the best researchers BDG has ever had.

Marc Heimann

Marc is one of our youngest team members and a hard working junior that we probably will hear more about in a few years!

Claudia Araujo

Many of our products need to be shown in a beautiful light and here we get help from Claudia, a skilled photographer making the most amazing pictures!

Emma Starrs

Emma Starrs handles BDG's press and PR activity and has over 14 years' experience in leading agency, press office and in house roles.

Georg Schütz

Our quality manager takes care of the ongoing implementation of DIN ISO 9001:2015 and has a broad experience with efficiency and client-orientation.

Jeremy Keppel

With an academic background in IT and process optimization, he helps us in important projects of a certain size.