Bernd Deffland

The Dieffenbacher Group is one of the world's leading manufacturers of complete production plants for the wood products industry and the composites industry.

Promoted to President and CFO to lead annual tactical plans, driving targeted financial performance, and enhancing business strategy. Provide oversight to Sales, Innovation, Market Development, HR, Finance departments for North America operations (Mexico, USA, and Canada).

I work towards implementing processes, frameworks and systems that generate productivity. I also assess risk management impacts of alternative trade-off decisions in context with product/services vision, goals and strategy. Other functions include presenting regular information and reports to board members, escalating concerns where appropriate.

Key initiatives:
➜Successfully developed high impact initiatives that increased profitability by 10% in 2018 & 2019
➜Effectively increased customer response time (within 24 hours) from 60% to 100%.
➜Optimized logistics processes (shipping the same day) from 60% to 100%