Lars Geiger

CIO 🚀 Leader ✔ Change Manager ✔ Digitalist ✔

Vaduz, LI

About

I am an expert making organizations more efficient! 🚀

BUSINESS PROCESS MANAGEMENT ✔ Expert in change management with 20 years of experience in the markets of Europe, USA, India and China
✔ Experienced sparring partner for decision makers with deep understanding of business processes
✔ Successful in identifying and implementing digitalization projects by analyzing processes, data flows and interfaces

INFORMATION MANAGEMENT ✔ 25 years of professional and leadership experience across the entire spectrum of information management with a management span of up to 75 employees
✔ Future-oriented transformation of traditional IT departments into modern, innovative and collaborative business partners
✔ Visionary in designing innovative and modern solutions for IT support in cooperation with the business units

PEOPLE MANAGEMENT ✔ Successful building of international teams based on intercultural experiences (Europe, Asia and America)
✔ Shaping of engaged and contributing teams by using agile working methods and individual motivation
✔ Increasing efficiency by designing and establishing digital platforms for knowledge management and collaboration

Ask me about

  • IT Infrastructure Software
  • Office Software
  • IT Management Software
  • ERP Software
  • Supply Chain & Logistics Software
  • Collaboration & Productivity Software
  • Audio Conferencing Software
  • Mind Mapping Software
  • Note-Taking Management Software

Work experience

July 2021 – present

u-blox

CIO / Head of Group IT

  1. July 2018 – December 2020

    Saurer Group

    CIO / Head of Global IT / Senior Vice President
    ✔ Development and implementation of the 5-year IT strategy
    ✔ Operational management of the IT organization with 75 employees, with 7 direct reports
    ✔ Compilation and controlling of the group IT budget of EUR 28m
    ✔ Transforming the decentralized IT units in China, Germany and India into a global, business-oriented organization with headquarter in Arbon
    ✔ Leading and controlling of the project managers for the standardization of the IT infrastructure (client, server, networks)
    ✔ Initiating of projects for the digitalization of business processes in the environment of PLM, IoT, BI, ERP, CRM and e-commerce

    Projects
    ✔ Leading of the consolidation of 15+ legacy ERP systems to one global SAP S/4HANA OneERP system
    ✔ Leading of the implementation of Microsoft cloud services including Office 365, Teams, OneDrive, etc. (SaaS, PaaS, IaaS)
    ✔ Building of the global virtual organization for business process management
    ✔ Introduction of the global IT governance and a management board for IT portfolio management
    ✔ Management of the global project for the introduction of Business Intelligence based on Microsoft Power BI and Microsoft Azure (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS)

  2. March 2015 – June 2018

    Baumer Group

    CIO / Chief Information Officer
    ✔ Group-wide responsibility for the operation and further development of the IT landscape
    ✔ Managing the departments for applications, infrastructure, services & online marketing with 50 employees, with 5 direct reports
    ✔ Compilation and controlling the group IT budget of CHF 17m
    ✔ Continuous development of the group's IT strategy, in close coordination with the Executive Board
    ✔ Definition and management of IT architectures, enforcement of IT guidelines and IT standards
    ✔ Selection and controlling of external service providers and suppliers

    Projects
    ✔ Leading of the implementation of a B2B website based on SAP-Hybris with a web shop & a customer area for complex configurable products
    ✔ Reorganization and streamlining of the IT organization
    ✔ Sponsoring and active support of the introduction of a group-wide PLM solution for the digitalization of research & development
    ✔ Outsourcing of the support for the internationally used SAP Business One systems

  3. January 2012 – February 2015

    thyssenkrupp Presta TecCenter AG

    Deputy CIO / Chief Information Officer
    Deputy CIO for a team of about 45 people for the camshafts group.
    ✔ Budgeting and people management
    ✔ Project manager for the definition of the IT strategy

  4. September 2009 – February 2015

    ThyssenKrupp Presta TecCenter AG

    Head of global IT Project Management
    ✔ Leading the IT project management and non-ERP application groups with 8 employees
    ✔ Deputy of the CIO responsible for 45 employees
    ✔ Leading the IT project portfolio management, prioritization of IT projects together with the executive management
    ✔ Budget planning and cost controlling of global IT projects
    ✔ Coordinator IT for the information security (ISMS) certification
    ✔ Moderation of cross-departmental workshops and team meetings

    Projects
    ✔ Leading of the implementation of a global PLM and project management solution based on Contact CIM Database
    ✔ Development of the IT strategy for 2015
    ✔ Definition of the IT processes based on ITIL
    ✔ Implementation of an IT service desk based on IBM Tivoli using the defined IT processes
    ✔ Implementation of a software solution and associated processes for global production reporting (OEE)

  5. January 2008 – September 2009

    thyssenkrupp Presta TecCenter AG

    Project Manager global Business Process Management
    ✔ Group-wide standardization of business processes during a company carve-out with 6 production plants
    ✔ Introduction of a software solution for business process management

  6. January 2005 – January 2007

    thyssenkrupp Presta AG

    Head of Business Process Management Cold Forging Division

  7. November 1995 – December 2004

    Lars Geiger

    Self-employed IT consultant and system engineer
    Management of IT infrastructure, IT operations and IT procurement for multiple SMEs

  8. January 1991 – January 2000

    Computec Media GmbH

    Freelance Editor
    Writing of editorial articles for the magazines PC Games, PC Action and PC Entertainment

Education

  1. 1994 – 2004

    Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg

    Dipl. Wirt.-Inf., Business informatics

  2. 1985 – 1994

    Gymnasium Höchstadt

    Abitur, Physics, Economics