Dr. Tilo Schmid-Sehl
Founding Partner
Tilo is an experienced Cross-Border Manager, is today based in Germany and has managed companies in East and South East Asia. He spent 15 years of his professional life in Asia.
Markus Schaedlich
Founding Partner
Markus has a residence in Japan since 1999 and has an excellent track record of introducing businesses to Asia and Europe, growing them or turning around underperforming companies. He has managed the region ASIA for S-DAX listed companies and was in the lead to build the first successful green-field plant of a German Supplier in Japan.
David Syrad
Founding Partner
David heads up our Market Performance, Negotiations Customer/Partner Relationship Management practice
Patrick Mathys
Associate
Senior executive with over 25 years of leadership experience in Europe and the Asia-Pacific region with a broad entrepreneurial track record.
Yurika Mimura
Trainer
Highly skilled professional with expertise in cross-border operations.She studied Germanistic at Hiroshima University and gained valuable international experience during her time at Panasonic before joining CBI in 2013. Yurika specializes in Insights and HansenBeck Trainings, allowing her to contribute effectively to projects in Europe and Japan.
Capt Perminder Singh
Associate
Capt P J Singh built his professional career based on his leadership experience during his army time at the border to Pakistan in the Himalayas. Clearness, strategic thinking and clear actions made him VP Human Resources at one of India's leading tech-companies.
Chiaki Kataoka
Senior Partner
HRD/OD consultant, Business Trainer
Novica Stanisavljević
Associate
Resident in Japan since 2003 and with over 15 years of experience in project management, techincal/enginnering support and quality assurance in the automotive business.
Erich Spirgi
Associate
Internationally experienced, open, curious and trustful professional with holistic engineering expertise and a sound understanding of business challenges
Takeshi Mentzel
Associate
German / Japanese bilingual economist with engineering background, specialised in Japanese-European automotive issues. Contributed in major cross-border consulting projects, including strategy implementation and market entry. He also wrote articles and reports about the Japanese automotive industry.
Bryan Keniry
Associate
No problem too complex, no detail too small...
Kunihiko Nakajima
Associate
Automotive expert, 40 years of business experience in the Japanese automotive industry. Board level experience at Japanese OEMs and Tier 1&2, managing (cross border) projects and business relationships with Japanese and foreign OEMS and major suppliers, contributed to the development / launch of large number of vehicles.
Hans-Peter Musahl
Legal & Finance
Hans-Peter is a German tax counsel supporting international business in Japan and Europe: He has been a tax partner with international multidisciplinary firms and currently focuses on his role as CFO of an energy business in Japan.