steel consulting

Dr.-Ing Michael Merz

Technologies and Management for High Performance Steels
  • E-Mailmerz@mecon-consulting.com
  • Telefon+49 (171) - 8916155
Merz - Consulting

MeCon stands for successful

  • Interim Management
  • Restructuring of small and medium-sized enterprises
  • Business Process Reengineering
  • Change Management
  • Coaching of young Executives

Based on > 35 years of Top- Management Experience in steel business I offer extensive know- how for the optimization of your business.

Next to my own expertise, I bring a strong network of domain-specific specialists

Business Experience

CEO/CRO of Mannstaedt GmbH

COO of Business Unit “Automotive / Mobility” of GMH Holding (7 companies)
2022 / 2023

CEO of GMH GmbH, Georgsmarienhütte, Germany

COO of Business Unit “Automotive / Mobility” of GMH Holding (7 companies)
2017 / 2022

Interim – Manager at GMH GmbH, Georgsmarienhütte, Germany

2015 / 2016

Numerous continuing consulting and restructuring projects in Germany, USA, Russia, Ukraine, China, Japan, Italy, Finland

2013 / 2020

Interim – CEO / CRO of Schulz Xtruded Products (SXP), MS USA

2012 / 2013

Independent consultant in numerous consulting projects for steel - companies in China with own expert-teams in cooperation with “Badische Stahl Engineering” (BSE)

2010 / 2012

Extensive cooperation with the investment company “Prolimity Capital Partners”

2012

Interim – CEO / CRO at “Trierer Stahlwerke GmbH” (TSW), Germany on behalf of “Turnaround Management GmbH”, Munich

2010 / 2011

Expert consultant for “Roland Berger Strategy Consultants” / Moscow and “Dr. Heinemann & Associates Consulting” in several restructuring projects for Russian steelmakers

2010

Foundation of the own freelance Consulting Company “MeCon”

2010

Vice President of “Edelstahl Witten-Krefeld GmbH” (EWK, in 2006 changed into DEW)

1996 / 2009

Other activities

  • Member of the German Steelmaking Committee
  • Education as a Business Coach
  • Member of the Rotary Club Wetter-Herdecke

Key experience and expertise include

  • Building strong work teams
  • Change Management, Business Turnaround, Restructuring
  • Process analysis and improvement
  • Operations management
  • P&L responsibility
  • Cross cultural leadership

Education

Dr.-Ing. (PHD) on high-temperature behaviour of micro-alloyed steels

1986

Diplom Ingenieur (Master’s Degree) in Eisenhüttenkunde (Metallurgy) at the Technical University of Aachen (RWTH) Diploma thesis at the
“Institute for Electron Microscopy” on the morphology of non-metallic inclusions

1982

Education as a Business-Coach

2005

Qualification in numerous Managment-Skills

Dr.-Ing Michael Merz