Curriculum Vitae of the President of EurEta

Urs Keller
Paulistrasse 28
8834 Schindellegi
Switzerland

phone.: +41-1 – 784 31 08
handy/combox: +41-79- 401 00 10
fax: +41-1 – 687 38 40
e-mail: eureta@abbts.ch

Career Profile

Acquisition- and customer-oriented managing director (Dipl. Engineer ETH and HTL) with broad as well as high quality international experience in research, education, technology-transfer and in development of products. Marketing, sales and project responsibility for engineering services for small as well as large companies. Management of service centers with several interdisciplinary, highly qualified teams for development of products. Experience in system engineering and automation. Creative and practical, having gone through a permeable training program and having the ability to find successfully usable solutions derived from complex theoretical knowledge, visions or ideas.  

My Focus

• Management of business and services with clear targets and controlling instruments for measuring the results as well as realizing crisis-resistant strategies
• project handling with the target of excellent customer satisfaction and lasting customer relationship
• innovation-management with reduction of the turn-around time and cost optimization
• effectiveness and clear communication processes
• national and international networking
• leading coworkers and institutions with MbO (Management by Objectives)

What can I bring into EurEta?

• several years experience of national and international consultation and engineeringservices
• excellent relationship with the industry, technical institutions and with the universities
• many years experience in successful business management and leading of interdisciplinary teams
• marketing, sales, financing and controlling experience
• successes in innovation management and in complex development processes
• very broad interdisciplinary expertise in product development, with modern as well as efficient IT tools and methods
• interest in innovative technologies and an openness for new challenges

 Professional Successes

1999-2001 building up several business units and reorganization of acquired enterprises within the tronic group. Preparation for IPO in the field of e-commerce/new-market

1993-1999 successful and lasting turnaround of the largest engineering service company in Switzerland, Helbling Technik AG, from a loss to a comfortable profit situation

1993-1999 continuous increase of the turnover and profit in all development centers (1998: 50% over the budgeted yield, high profitability in all profit centers)

1995-1999 continuous increase of the profit and of the orders subsequently of the previous good work. The portion of continued work with the same partners raised from 34% to over 90% in the development center due to customer satisfaction and excellent coworkers as well as efficient means and methods

1993-1999 introduction, certifying and current advancement of a quality management system

1997-1999 successful implementation of systematically selected emphasis in all teams with the appropriate personnel adaptations (concentration of the resources)

1997-1999 no warranty claims due to excellent project-work and continuous training of excellent coworkers

1990-1992 know-how transfer (engineering and production) of the Staeubli-Unimation Robotics from Pittsburgh/USA to Horgen/Schweiz as well as to England and France

1988-1992 halving of the efforts and therefore the expenditures of patent and other IP (intellectual properties) matters

Employments

1999 till today a-tronic mgm AG, 8105 Regensdorf, Switzerland

Chief Development Officer (CDO)

responsible for the management of several Business units in the field document management, telecommunications -, access- and security-systems in particular for e-commerce solutions.

1992 1999 Helbling Technik AG, 8048 Zurich

Managing Director

9/95 10/99 Management of the profit center of Helbling Technik AG, Zurich

5/97 12/98 Managing director of the Helbling Technik GmbH Munich

8/93 - 3/98 Leading of Helbling Technik AG, Berne, Aarau, Zurich, Wil and Munich

10/92 7/93 Debuty manager of Helbling Technik AG

partner for innovative, professional development projects

leading of development centers and interdisciplinary development teams

responsible for the mandates, turnover, profit, budget and controlling acquisition, key account management, marketing and PR.

offer handling, project planning and implementation support

quality management and quality assurance of the project-performances

working out the strategies and implementing of new services.

 

1986-1992 Staeubli AG, Horgen

Business manager

Manager of the Business-Units:

• development of automation systems and application engineering
• development of programming systems for waving machines
• measuring technique and calculations
• patent matters and intellectual properties

Project leader of strategic projects such as transfer of technology of the Unimation Robotics from the USA to Europe.

1984-1986 Consultant of the World Bank and UNDP, Dar es Salaam

advisor for production- and financing-analysis as well as for clarifications

Lecturer of the department of machine design and methodology

Building up of laboratories in mechanical components and simulation

1972-1977 Swissair AG

Specialist for pneumatics and hydraulics in the field of DC-9 and B-747 airplane landing gears

1966-1971 Gebr. Sulzer AG, Winterthur

Four years training in the field of machine draftsmen including one year

of practical courses in 12 different workshops and afterwards a year as a technical designer developing large diesel engines

Education

1980-1981 Language stay in Paris/France

1978-1980 ETH in Zurich, Mechanical Engineering with termination Dipl. Ing. ETH

1977-1978 Supplement course at the TWI in Winterthur

1977. Engineering School in Zurich, Mechanical Engineering with termination

Dipl. Ing. HTL

1971-1972 Language school LTC in London/UK

1966-1970 Apprenticeship, Machine draughtsman at Gebr. Sulzer AG in Winterthur

 Visited training seminars

permanent training seminars and courses like:

Management and - simulation, Leadership - St. Galler guidance program, organization and working system places, convincing by competent information and presentation, personnel in 21. Century, team development, Kepner Tregoe for decision of processes, communications Goldmann seminar, Salesmasters, customer relationship, Gustav K�ser sales training I and II, products corresponding to real market conditions, industrial right, technology monitoring, integrated product development, product cost management, development methodology, personal Coaching

 Member of the following technical organizations

SWISSMEM: Swiss Members of Industries, Research commission

CAG: Expert for innovative development and construction

FITT: Institution for transfer of technology

STV: Swiss Engineering Association

 Languages

German native language

English very good knowledge in speaking and writing

French good knowledge in speaking and writing

Kiswahili Five years practice

 Hobby

Third world politics, culture, journeys, mountain-walking, skiing, cross-country skiing, family with house, garden, animals and home computers

Personal Data

date of birth: 18. June 1949

married

two sons of 17 and 19 and a daughter of 13