Ansgar Troster

Responsibilities: - Owner of governance, processes and tools for organization of € 7B annual purchase volume. - Principal Product Owner (with 3 Business Unit PO) for implementation of S/4HANA, ARIBA, GRC. - Drive Integration of newly merged procurement teams within area of responsibility. Achievements: - Integrated team of 10 direct reports in Spain and Denmark and created workable matrix organization with business units and regions (around 30 process specialists). - Defined governance setup, standards, process framework, tools as well as shared services for a procurement organization of 300+ professionals across 3 business units. - Slashed the number of process documents by 65%. - Eliminated country-specific approval steps and replaced with a single harmonized global setup covering all geographies’ legal requirements. - After thorough analysis of the company’s risk exposure in purchase-to-pay process sequence: Designed system-based P2P control framework. Aligned with finance, compliance, internal controls and IT. Finished global implementation on time (governance setup, tool, staffing of roles). - Boosted the use of eAuctions with 70% CAGR. - Drove internal customers’ satisfaction with state-of-the-art “self-service requisitioning” system. - Launched streamlined approach to “Sustainability in the Supply Chain” and improved the Sustainability Index rating by several points each year. - Cash flow: Improved trade payable by € 100m (with 3rd party financing and master data quality). - Innovated with collaboration and workflow tools and partnering in industry bodies, i.e. exploring initial trust in suppliers’ sustainable conduct with distributed ledger technology / blockchain.

Responsibilities: - systematically address Cost of Poor Quality with suppliers - Setup professional supplier claim approach (team, processes, stakeholder alignment, reporting). - From 2nd half 2016: Lead carve-out workstream for procurement processes and IT systems. Achievements: - Formed team of 5 with distinct profile and coached members throughout their major cases. - Established consistent approach to root cause analysis - and drive prevention - Recovered € 40m non-conformance cost. - Proven carve-out “day 1 readiness” for work-stream (no single disruption during integration).

Responsibilities: - Initiate a procurement team of 20, accountable for all sourcing tasks (direct, indirect, CAPEX) Achievements: - Introduced the licensed 4.0 MW Offshore turbine simultaneously with its initial New Product Introduction (NPI) in Denmark, with successful focus on material availability from local, qualified suppliers. This turbine is now leading the offshore market in China.

Responsibilities: - Transform small local procurement team into sourcing hub for global factories - Elevate "Quality by Inspection" to continuous improvement at suppliers and controlled processes Achievements: - Built a team of 60+ specialists by actively managing the incumbent team, filling gaps and developing talents (focus on supplier development engineers and supplier quality managers). - Scouted, developed and qualified potential suppliers and built strategic business relationships. - Enabled exports from Chinese suppliers to global manufacturing sites with 60% CAGR. - Optimized supply to local factory to achieve 12% annual reduction in component cost and NC reduction by 40% p.a.

Responsibilities: - Formulate and implement commodity strategies for previously neglected commodities. - Lead crossfunctional team with focus on broadening the supply base (qualification, globalization) Achievements: - Optimized supply base with consolidation on best performing suppliers (total cost) - Achieved > 20% saving with advanced negotiation concepts across a large portfolio of 100+ suppliers and 10.000+ material numbers (fasteners and c-parts, small steel parts, generators). - Entrusted responsibility increased with CAGR 50% to € 160 million annual negotiation. - Pioneered large eAuctions for critical high volume and high variance parts. - Implemented customized Kanban system to optimally support lean manufacturing operations.

Responsibilities: - Constitute data transparency and forecasting for largest commodity and advance controlling. Achievements: - € 350m spend covered in data analysis including forecast raw material fluctuation, limit expo-sure. - Clearing of the GR/IR account: Cut down invoice verification backlog by 90%. - Successful SAP R/3 roll out secured for Procurement.

Responsibilities: - Identify market trends and customer requirements and translate into product roadmap. - Define and lead the pan-European and global market launch - Establish strong link to sales to establish multi-channel strategy and all necessary product variants, customized marketing material, communication plan Achievements: - Innovation and Product roadmap continuously (re)filled in a structured idea and market intelligence process - Ongoing review of business case on feature basis to allow prioritization of resources - Requirement documents and user interface specifications for 20+ product innovation to strengthen the Gigaset brand and broaden the portfolio above the core products - Process for ongoing feature alignment with technical project lead - Defined product features and project plan for successful launch of Gigaset H47 and H48 home networking family (routers, adapters) across Europe and adopted products for the US market, planned and executed the projects with my local counterparts. - Product definition, design supervision and market positioning of Siemens SL75 major brand building mobile phone - Digital innovation: Concept and product definition for Siemens’ entry into the connected media center market, launched the Gigaset M740AV in Germany. - Strong support for Executives in business strategy process.

Responsibilities: - Represented Siemens in a wireless home networking industry group with start-ups as well as computer and telecom powerhouses (e.g. intel, Motorola, AT&T). Achievements: - Created detailed and profitable business plan for launch of the AT&T home gateway.

Responsibilities: - Lead the development of electronic payment terminals and digital signature (PKI) components. Achievements: - Serial production release of integrated payment terminal into standard PC and POS keyboards.