Executive Consulting

Thomas Wünnemann

20 years expertise and experience in IP management with a deep financial business understanding

Core competencies

Thomas Wünnemann offers professional experience based on his executive roles such as CEO & MD positions and other senior-management appointments. He is experienced to build and lead international management and sales teams in a variety of service industries, primarily Intellectual Property Management and Financial Services with over 400 experts and 100 Mio. EUR revenue base.

For IP law firms and IP Service Providers Thomas’ consulting business offers unique skills: the combination of leadership experience, a deep understanding of the trends and developments in the IP-industry, combined with his financial services background.

His strategic focus is on corporate and organizational development, commercial management, IP consulting as part of M&A projects and change management. These competencies include focus areas such as business development and other sales & marketing activities.

Thomas Wünnemann has extensive experience as an advisor to secure corporate investment projects and to provide due diligence relevant industry insights. Hi capabilities to develop “deal scenarios“ for European and international private equity investment funds and advising on Intellectual Property Management & IP-Services has served strong growth and value generation with a number of leading providers in that industry.

Thomas has held supervisory board and executive sponsor roles for PE investment firms and start-up companies, including interim management positions to bridge corporate change.

Industry Focus with a global reach

Intellectual Property Management
for large scale IP law firms and corporate IP departments

Consulting Services
for patent and trademark service providers and financial investors

Services

Executive Management

Corporate development and execution, Strategy development and consulting, Turnaround- and Change-Management, Securing organic and non-organic growth (M&A target definition & research, initiation & contact, assessment of valuation factors), Outsourcing and Offshoring consultancies, Board collaboration with COO, CFO, HR & Legal

Marketing & Business Development

Multi-channel concepts, market segmentation, customer management processes, Sales management through direct and indirect channels, new customer acquisition, cross- and upselling, , client & partner management, sales planning & controlling, leveraging sales methods (Franklin Covey, Miller Heiman,)

Marketing

Multi-channel concepts, market segmentation, customer management processes, business intelligence, market analyses, initiation and sponsorship of CRM projects (such as Salesforce.com)

Financials & Human Factors

Organizational development, budgeting factors, KPI´s, developing reporting scenarios, corporate integrations and outplacement, securing M&A amortization, career & succession planning

Management and

Leadership roles

HOFFMANN EITLE Patent- und Rechtsanwälte

Executive Director

“Thomas acts a passionate business leader who combines deep IP industry knowledge with a perspective on commercial drivers both from an IP law firm’s perspective and a corporate viewpoint at the executive level.

In that role, he is working closely with the partners of HOFFMANN EITLE in a very pragmatic approach on future developments and key projects which are aimed to secure and maintain a leading position of the firm in its key markets. He is responsible for business development, commercial management and structural development of the firm. “ (by Hoffmann Eitle)

Fidelity, FIS Kordoba

Chairman of the board of directors

FIS is a leader in technology and services that helps businesses and communities thrive by advancing commerce and the financial world. For over 50 years, FIS has continued to drive growth for clients around the world by creating tomorrow’s technology, solutions and services to modernize today’s businesses and customer experiences.

Headquartered in Jacksonville, Florida, FIS employs more than 55,000 people across 50+ countries, dedicated to helping its clients to be ahead of what’s next. FIS is a Fortune 500® company.

FIS KORDOBA is a German business unit acquired from Siemens Business Services building core banking solutions and outsourcing services used by direct, private- and regional banks in Germany.

CPA Global HQ (now Clarivate)

Director International Business

CPA Global is the leading IP services providerwith a global scale, headquartered in Jersey, Channel Islands. Thomas has been for 7 years on the global board of directors, besides establishment and operational management of CPAs legal entities in Germany, UK, and HK he worked in the Board of Directors of future leading projects such as creating offshoring centres or establishing links into the legal process outsourcing industry (LPO).

CPA Deutschland GmbH (now Clarivate)

CEO

Thomas established this new legal entity in one of the biggest IP markets globally. Developing all corporate disciplines covering the services of CPA global (Sales & Marketing, Operations, Software Solutions, Clients Services, Business Administration) he developed the business over 10 years into a market leader in this specific segment in DACH.

Weltbild Verlag, IT systems

CEO

Legal entity in charge of the management of all IT services and infrastructure for one of the leading German Publishing companies, dedicated focus on developing the future channels of E commerce and E services.

Siemens AG, Siemens Business Services

Head of business unit, private & regional banks Germany

A track record of business management and leadership roles at SBS with its banking business lines, covering all products and services dedicated to the German financial services market. Deep understanding of a wide bandwidth of IT products such as Mainframe infrastructure, IT Hosting Systems, Banking software solutions, Branch operations and self-service infrastructure, which were in the scope of this operation.