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Friedemann Faerber

Managing Partner of FAERBER Verwaltungs­gesellschaft mbH, Stuttgart. CEO and managing director for industrial mid-sized companies.

Mechanical engineer (KIT)More than eight years as CEODeutsch · English · Italiano

Friedemann Faerber, Managing Partner of FAERBER Verwaltungsgesellschaft mbH

Africa Leadership AwardAward winner · HANNOVER MESSE 2025

For more than eight years, Friedemann Faerber has led industrial companies as CEO and managing director – with a focus on growth, internationali­sation and transformation, including in difficult market phases.

Before that, he spent almost nine years as a restructuring consultant guiding mid-sized companies through crises; earlier, at Bosch, he was responsible for customers and markets in Germany, Italy and China. As CEO of SCS Stahlschmidt Cable Systems he built a new plant in Tangier (Morocco) and realigned the European production network. As CEO of Suprajit Germany GmbH he then led the integration of the SCS Group into India’s Suprajit Group.

A graduate mechanical engineer, he combines technical understanding with commercial accountability – and with roots that go back to his parents’ business: already at school and university he worked in sales at the family company. Today he is available to owners, shareholders and investors to lead an industrial company – ideally as CEO in a permanent role, as well as on an interim basis or on an advisory board.

“See the opportunities, roll up your sleeves together and learn along the way. That is exactly how progress happens.”

Career

Milestones

  1. since 2022

    Managing Partner

    FAERBER Verwaltungs­gesellschaft mbH, Stuttgart

    Management and holding company focusing on corporate leadership, interim and advisory board mandates, strategic corporate development and investment management for mid-sized companies.

  2. 2024 – 2026

    Managing Director / CEO

    Suprajit Germany GmbH, Bad Berleburg and Tangier

    Regional company of India’s Suprajit Group with around 1,500 employees in Germany, Poland and Morocco. Overall responsibility for the post-merger integration and restructuring of the former SCS organisation.

    • Overhead and structural costs reduced by more than 50%
    • Productivity at the Moroccan plant increased by more than 20 percentage points
    • Operating cash flow significantly improved, quality and complaint costs reduced
    • New customer programmes won for profitable growth
  3. 2018 – 2024

    CEO and sole managing director

    SCS Stahlschmidt Cable Systems, Bad Berleburg

    International Tier 1/Tier 2 supplier of Bowden cable systems with sites in Europe, China, Canada and Morocco. Overall international P&L responsibility.

    • Built a greenfield plant in Tangier – from site selection to series production
    • Relocated three European production plants (Germany, Poland, Hungary) to Morocco; consolidated the European production network
    • Restructured the Polish subsidiary
    • Led the international investor process through to the sale to a strategic investor
  4. 2009 – 2018

    Senior Manager, from 2011 Head of the Automotive Industry Centre

    Struktur Management Partner GmbH

    Restructuring, turnaround, interim management and crisis management for automotive suppliers, mechanical and plant engineering companies and metalworking businesses. Industry study together with the Institut für Automobil­wirtschaft (IfA).

    • Successful turnaround in more than 90% of the restructuring projects he led
    • Negotiated and implemented substantial price increases with customers
  5. 1998 – 2009

    Sales and key account management

    Robert Bosch GmbH – Stuttgart, Milan/Turin, Wuxi (China)

    From assistant to the head of sales to group leader and deputy head of sales for Diesel Systems: key account for the Volkswagen Group (Audi, common rail), technical sales in Italy, market development in China.

    • More than tripled revenue in the Chinese market, over 15 new projects with Chinese manufacturers
    • Annual price negotiations with OEMs including Fiat and GM
  6. 1991 – 1998

    Mechanical engineering, Diplom-Ingenieur

    University of Karlsruhe (TH), today Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

    In parallel – since his school days – sales work at his parents’ engineering company Paul Andrä KG in Lorch, a manufacturer of professional cleaning machines.

Recognition

Award, media and talks

  • 2025
    HANNOVER MESSE Africa Leadership AwardOne of the winners of the first award by the ReThinking Africa Foundation
  • 2025
    HANNOVER MESSE, Trade & Invest StagePanel discussion “Bridging Innovation and Investment – Unlocking Africa’s Economic Potential”
  • 2025
    Africa.Table (Table.Briefings)Portrait: “Strategic realignment in Morocco”
  • 2023
  • 2022
    Opening of the plant in Tanger Automotive CityReport by Tanger Med Special Agency

Ready for change?

Let’s talk about your situation.

Whether an executive role, a mandate or an advisory board seat: confidential, without obligation and at eye level. I will get back to you promptly.

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