Christian Dreyer-Salzmann

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Mr. Christian Dreyer-Salzmann is the Founder and serves as Managing Director, Senior Partner & Senior Advisor at Dreyer Ventures & Management. He serves as Chairman at Aurelius Equity Opportunities. He is the Partner of Dreyer Ventures & Management. After studying engineering at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, he earned an MBA from the INSEAD business school in the French city of Fontainebleau in 1988. He worked as a management consultant for McKinsey & Company in Munich from 1989 to 1991. In 1991, he became the Managing Partner of Hansen & Reinders GmbH & Go. Bergbauelektrik KG in Gelsenkirchen, which he internationalized and converted to Hansen Sicherheitstechnik AG with its registered head office in Munich in 2005. Under his leadership as Chairman of the Management Board, the company successfully floated shares on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange in 2006. From 2003 to 2004, he served as Management Board Chairman of Skidata AG and since 2005 he has been the Managing Partner of the private equity and management firm Dreyer Ventures & Management GmbH, Salzburg, whose portfolio today comprises investments in established mechanical engineering firms and innovative technology companies. He also served as Supervisory Board Chairman of MS Industrie AG from 2010 to 2015 as a Supervisory Board member from 2010 to 2012, and then as Management Board Chairman of SMT Scharf AG from 2012 to 2015. Currently, he is a Supervisory Board member of Beno Holding AG, Starnberg.