Speaker

Andre Wassmann
Strategist, M&A and Corporate Finance Expert

20+ years of experience as a strategist, M&A, and corporate finance expert, strong negotiator, communicator, and seller. Compatible with large corporates, financial institutions, and capital markets as well as private equity, family offices, venture capital, midcap, and smallcap. Andre is intensively involved with megatrends and related new business models. His clients ask him how to optimize with respect to the developments of new ecology, connectivity, mobility, security, and health. Derived from this, Andre works with his clients on transactions for their major transformations. Those include increasing ESG compliance, reducing carbon footprint, investing greener, digitization and automation, meeting regulatory requirements, finding a successor when 120.000 companies are looking for succession per year, focussing on core business, or diversifying in a healthy way. Digital business models and platforms become more and more relevant to all industries. During his time as Managing Director of two subsidiaries of KGAL, he was responsible for the strategic development and implementation of innovative business areas, M&A, and venture capital investments and implemented a digital investment platform. He has an excellent network of international financial investors, corporate and strategic investors, and targets, as well as start-ups and scale-ups, think tanks, and incubators.