Norbert Ruf

Wilkhahn

12.97 – 03.99 Wilkhahn Headquarter, Eimbeckhausen, Germany

Position: Regional Manager

Responsibility for sales, salestructure and operative marketing in Italy, Greece, Turkey, Israel, Cyprus and Malta, Turnover responsibility 2 million DEM

03.99 – 12.00 Wilkhahn Austria, Vienna, Austria

Position: Managing Director

Expansion of realm of responsibility of purely Austria to Italy, Ex-Yugoslavia, Slovakia, Czech Rep., Romania an Russia, personnel responsibility (5 people), market survey and analysis, creation or restructuring of distribution structure, conception and realizing of regional marketing activities,

Turnover responsibility 9 million DEM

12.00 – today Wilkhahn Headquarter, Eimbeckhausen, Germany

Position: Designmanager

Strategic Productplanning and budget responsibility for total company portfolio, productconcept, productbriefing, international recruitment and selection of potential designers, designevaluation, management of the designprocess, coordination and management of multidisciplinary teams to create and market product solutions, scenario concept and realisation, trendanalysis,

Languages:

German: Mother tongue

English: Written and spoken fluently

Italian: Spoken and read fluently, written basic