Andreas Kolch, Ph.D.
General Manager and Co-Founder of Hytecon, Germany
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Dr. Andreas Kolch served as Chief Technology Officer with ITT Wedeco (formerly Wedeco GmbH, Wedeco AG), a global provider of UV and Ozone water treatment systems. Andreas was involved with the development and commercialization of a wide range of different treatment technologies within Wedeco, acted as technology representative for the company with the investment community, and supported the acquisition process for acquiring and/or selling technologies.
Andreas provides support for in-house research and development activities, technical due diligence studies for venture capital investment and merger and acquisition projects, strategy and portfolio advice for large companies, process implementation and market analysis studies. Andreas holds a Ph.D. in Microbiology from the Institute of Hygiene and Public Health, University of Bonn, Germany.
In addition to his technical and scientific qualifications, he is a certified Six Sigma Green Belt (University of Michigan) and employs a wide variety of management processes and tools, e.g. Stage Gate, Voice of the Customer, Financial Planning and Balanced Score Cards (Cooper, NIMBA, Boston Consulting, Ashridge College).