1. Klaus Kothmann
Dohne 67
45468 Mülheim/Ruhr
Telefon ++49 208 / 452 3101
Fax ++49 3212 / 100 5897
Mobil ++49 177 / 3061780
E-Mail: KK@acceleor.com
Family Status: married, 3 Children
Personal
Nationality: German
Date of Birth: April 14th 1964
Place of Birth: Frankfurt/Main, Germany
Experience 09/1991 – 12/1996 UPS Deutschland Bad Homburg/Oberursel
Several assignments
 09/1991 – 03/1992 Management Trainee
 04/1992 – 02/1993 Sales Rep. for One branch
 03/1993 – 12/1993 Key Account Rep. for 6 branches
 01/1994 – 07/1994 Area Sales Manager for 5 branches
 08/1994 – 12/1996 European/Global Account Manager
01/1997 – 06/1998 Danzas Logistics GmbH Mannheim
Key Account Manager
 Development and support for well known companies in the FMCG sector
 Projektleader for the implementation of a central warehouse for Germany
and Eastern Europe for a well known producer of household appliances
Take over of personnel as well as integration of several warehouses into
one DC. Total staff in the end was 85 FTE.
1998 – 06/1999 Globe Couriers GmbH Troisdorf
Managing Director
 Task of reorganisation – filed for insolvency in 04/99
 Ca. 50 FTE
Aerocar AB was acquired by Exel in 1999 and the decision was taken to close
the German entity as Exel already had an existing organisation in Germany.

2. 07/1999 – 08/2000 Hays Logistics Raisdorf
Director Sales Germany
 Managed and built up sales team of 15 people
 Responsible for contract logistics and outsourcing for the sites in Wülfrath,
Raisdorf, Stavenhagen, Leipzig and Moers.
 Introduction of a new reporting system for the sales activities of the relevant
business unit.
 Introduction of key acccount management structures.
09/2000 – 06/2002 Hays Logistics GmbH Euskirchen/Wülfrath
Director Business Development Consumer & Chemicals, Member
of the Board
 Responsible for the business unit Consumer & Chemicals
 Responsible for budgets of the sites in that business Unit.
 Consolidation of the activities in this business unit after closing of the
groupage activities.
 Acquisition of the biggest client of one branch to make sure that the
utilisation of that branch is appropriate (up to 9000 pal. Incl. VAS)
 After 6 months additional responsibility for the business unit Retail.
 Budget responsible for a turnover of more than € 50 Mio.
 Main contact for main target and existing clients from the chemical industry
as well as from FMCG/Retail.
 Building up of communication structures to relevant media
 Tuning of communication with company HQ.
 Team member of building up European internet presence.
 German coordinatort for european business development activities within
German speaking region.
01/2003 – 12/2005 Penske Logistics Europe B.V. Roosendaal/NL
Strategic Account Executive
 Commercial responsibility for huge supply chain projects
 Contact person for the media in Germany
 Support of regional development in the german speaking countries.
01/2006 – today Mülheim an der Ruhr/Köln
Acceleor / K&K Management Consulting
Interimmanagement and consulting in Logistics, Business Development,
Strategy and Restructuring
 Outsourcing proposal and presentation for a german logistics provider in
China
 Restructuring of two warehouses for a just-in-sequence into production
delivery in Prague (CZ)
 Government support in the development of real estate for logistics
 Go to market analysis and support for logistics for a huge german training
company
 Business development for a „Software as a Service“ – company for CEE
 Cooperation and support of a German „Software as a Service“ –
company in Business Development
 Support of a german FMCG producer with a european LLP-Tender

3.  Several operational assessments for logistics companies of different sizes
 Restructuring of operations in Logistics/Forwarding
 Strategy development for several logistics companies
 Development of Go-To-Market initiative for Value Added Services for a
global logistics player.
Education 1984 - 1991 J.-W.-Goethe-University
Frankfurt/Main
Germany
Diplom-Kaufmann (higher degree in business)
Languages German (native language), English (business fluent)
Alternative Service 07/1986 – 10/1987 Club behinderter und Ihrer Freunde e.V., Dreieich