Dr. Bernd Zierhut, born 04.04.1961, married, three children
Education:
Primary school
Grammar school in Linz (BORG Linz)
University degree in law (University of Innsbruck and Linz)
Career:
1987 Trainee function Mobil Oil Austria and training at "MEMTEC (Mobil European Marketing Training Centre) in London
1988 Territory Manager Retail Vienna - Mobil
Main duties: Management of company owned dealer operated petrol station network
1990 District Manager for Vienna, Lower Austria and Styria
Main duties: Management of Petrol station network in line with financial and volume goals
1993 Manager Real Estate admin. and Indoor Fuels
Main duties: Network development and price setting for lube and fuel sales channels
1994 Assistant of the General Manager of Mobil Oil Austria
Main duties: Management of the Retail business in Austria
1994 Team Leader of the re - organization/ re - engineering project of the commercial business in European - Mobil, based in London.
Main duties: Benchmarking of our organization, costs with main competitors
Analyzing and looking for saving potentials (Re-engineering of business processes)
Establishment of new organization with new business processe.
The whole project was supported by Booz Allen (Reference: Viren Doshi - Vice President Booz Allen - Paris)
1995 Team Leader - Implementation of the re-engineered business processes in the UK Retail network based in London
Main duties: Test new business processes and implement them in UK Retail network
1996 Marketing Manager Gas Europe - BP, based in Brussels
Main duties: Implementation of JV (Mobil/BP) in Gas business
Develop strategic marketing plans for new operation units in Europe
Market entry in Turkey by acquisition of DELTA GAZ (80 mio. $ deal by acquiring a sea terminal, four bottling plants and a manufacturing plant).
Develop new visual standards for BP Gas
Develop CR packages for the operation units; 1997 Assessor Training with Price Waterhouse
1998 Marketing and Sales Support Manager in Austria
Main duties: Development and implementation of:
a. Marketing Plans for Austira
b. Asset and Operation strategy
c. Convenience store and shop strategy (development of Austria 2000)
d. Outsorcing of the onsite IT department and development of BMI Strategy
1999 Manager Marketing, Cards and Sales Support in Austria
Main duties: Extension of the responsibility ( CRT Business )- downsizing
1999 Retail Manager Austria
Main duties: Responsible for the whole Austrian Retail business.
Size: 410 Retail sites
Yearly turnover of 580 Million
2001 Retail Manager Austria and member of "forest acquisition team
Development of MTF - approval for ARAL Austria together with Linklater London and Lexcon Ltd. in London
2001 Marketing Director of Doppler Mineralöle
Main duties: General Management
Size: 201 Retail stations, wholesale, lubes and LPG Business
Turnover: 800 Million estimation 2010
Other activities:
Member of the advisory board of Austrian Rail Road (ÖBB) 2000-2004
Member of the advisory board of Rail cargo 2005-2007
Member of the advisory board of Betten Reiter 2003-2009
President of the circle innovative business people
An Hand dieses Lebenslaufes sieht man die erfolgreiche Entwicklung, die Dr. Bernd Zierhut bis jetzt durchlaufen hat. Darum können wir stolz sein ihn als ehemaligen BORG Absolventen, nennen zu dürfen und wünschen ihm weiterhin viel Erfolg auf seinem Lebensweg.