Dieter Lott on Clubhouse

Bio

Cofounder LearnALize - a learning platform to accelerate academic, social and psychological development of children

Cofounder LocalHighStreet - Helping the local economy with a community inspired, Amazon enabled town covering all kinds of businesses - from retail to hairdressers to mechanics to any small business in a town

Expertise:
Strategy - Corporate Strategic Planning expert. For new and existing businesses - From idea generation, market research, creating a business case through to strategic planning and review - role included VP Corporate & Business Development and Head of Global Strategy

Start-Ups - both a founder and as an advisor

M&A – Tech savvy Corporate Development specialist with experience managing the full M&A cycle from the strategy itself, to sourcing opportunities to assessing potential candidates to creating Board of Director acquisition approvals to managing due diligence and the contract negotiation through to post acquisition reviews. Led over 25 acquisition reviews and acquired 10 companies and divested 2 – synergy plays, market entry, adjacencies and buying IP - role so clouded M&A Director and VP Corporate Development

Change Agent – large scale mergers (USD1.6B sales); integrations of acquisitions (USD5m to USD500m); rationalizing portfolios; organizational redesign (matrix, near shoring, centralizing, process optimization and ERP) and creating start-ups within large organisations - throughout my career

Routes/Channels to Market – Led large and small sales teams, nationally and internationally, creating channels to market for many large technology companies - roles included Country Manager, Regional VP, EMEA General Manager and VP Vendor Management