Senior Business Professional
Steffen R. Bamberg
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My Experience
A versatile & multi-faceted professional with rich Business Management Experience as well as Expert Knowledge in Company and Marketing Management.
Excellence in championing values, vision, augmenting growth, market share of the organization globally, and overcoming challenges with hands-on experience in instituting systems to enhance productivity & reduce cost.
Currently working in top management capacity with one of the emerging and growing companies in GCC markets – ArabExpo; outstanding experiences with big international enterprises and well known brands like VOITH Group, KNORR-BREMSE, GAHRENS + BATTERMANN (a technology rental co.), Messe Muenchen (a location operator), and CANALE GRANDE (a creative & self-made agency setup).
Being a core member of Senior Leadership/Decision-making Team; establishing & executing high-level strategies, making high-stakes decisions, striving towards securing new international trade fair projects and promoting stakeholder communications to combat mission-critical business challenges.
Strategic Professional, with track record of elevating the performance of company’s brands, improving corporate perception, growing businesses.
Successful career chronicle in setup and turning around businesses as well as enhancing value of operating business units through process improvements focused on best practice identification and implementation; including an increase in profit margins from -2% to 36% through the implementation of business initiatives.
Key People Leader, who has successfully led, managed, and motivated cross-functional, international teams towards growth and success in the organization using interactive & motivational leadership that spurs people to willingly give 100% efforts.
Comeanddo
03/2023 – present
Senior Director Projects
… for the first ever event management company in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
CANALE GRANDE GmbH
04/2009 – present
Shareholder
(before: Managing Partner)
… for a production company in the field of live communication and distribution of interactive technologies.
STiC-er Theater e.V.
07/1999 – present
Member of the board
… of a theatre company for and with youngsters.
Alamiya Media
11/2022 – 02/2023
Project Director
… at Saudi Arabias leading broadcasting company to develop and run Riyadh Imagination Park during Riyadh Season.
ArabExpo
06/2021 – 05/2022
Chief Operations Officer
… with a Dubai based client-oriented service company engaged in trade shows, events, and fit outs.
VOITH Group
10/2018 – 06/2021
Global Head of Trade Shows, Events, and Design Services
… for a well known, globally operating, diversified group of companies in the fields of mechanical engineering, mobility, hydropower and paper machines.
KNORR-BREMSE Group
12/2013 – 09/2018
Head of Fairs & Events (globally)
… for a leading global conglomerate of companies in the field of rail and road mobility.
Gahrens + Battermann Mediensysteme
09/2013 – 12/2013
Key Accounts Manager
… for a Europe-wide operating rental company for event technology.
CANALE GRANDE
06/2006 – 12/2013
Executive director & owner
… of a creative agency working with several clients on project of live communications (events, trade show, roadshows, broadcasting studios, …)
Messe München GmbH
07/1999 – 03/2009
Technical project manager & Technical director
… for one of the leading location providers and trade show organizers within their international congress center and incubator trade show grounds.
Optimizing businesses is one of my great strengths.
Is yours next?
my Skills
An entrepreneurial mind with a passion to build world class organization, customer-centric multi-skilled Leader, offering 20+ years of rich experience in the areas of Process Improvement, Key Account Management, Strategic Planning, Definition & Achievement of Objectives, Marketing including Corporate Events and Trade Shows … with focus on generating profitability & expanding revenue.
- Business & Marketing Management
- Strategic Planning & Implementation
- Fairs & Events Management
- Profitability & Business Expansion
- Client Relationship Management
- Continuous Process Improvement
- Investment Planning
- People Management
IT
- Windows & Mac
- MS Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint)
- ERP-systems (TOPIX, Lexware, debitoor, Ungerboeck EBMS, easyjob)
- CRM-systems
- AutoCAD, TurboCAD
- WordPress
- Adobe Photoshop
- Digital Signage (Scala, …)
- Cloudbased tools (Asana, ToDoIst, monday.com, SmartDraw, organimi, AkriviaHCM, …
State Certificate of Competency
- Stage Lighting
- Stage Master
Education
Permanent trainings
Leading people
Project Management
University
Graduated engineer, Theatre- and events technologies
A specialization based on the subject of mechanical engineering
University of Applied Science, Beuth, Berlin, Germany
1999
School
High school diploma
High school Hansa, Stralsund, Germany
1993
