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Luxembourgish and French citizen and Luxembourg resident, David Barth was Executive Board Member as Group CFO and CEO/Managing Director in listed companies (IWKA, KUKA Systems, VALEO) as well as in international Luxembourgish family owned industrial companies for more than 20 years (CERATIZIT, CEBI). He was also appointed as Non Executive Board Member of numerous daughter companies of the groups he served in. He has focused his career on operational excellence and on strategic business development in the Automotive (TIER 1 suppliers, automatised Production Systems) and on the general B2B manufacturing industry.

Graduated as Engineer in Physics (ENSPS, Strasbourg, France), MSc in Physics (U. Strasbourg, France), PhD in Management Sciences (U. Strasbourg, France), and Executive MBA (HEC, Paris), David has lectured Management Sciences at the University of Strasbourg in France from 1989 to 1996. He is certified director of ILA from the INSEAD International Directors Program.

Beside turnaround and restructuring mandates as transition CEO, David concentrates his activity as Independent Director in the field of non listed and non regulated industrial businesses, in particular of privately owned SMEs. He is convinced that in this context, state of the art Corporate Governance provides good solutions to ownership challenges and is often indispensable to the long-term success of the business as well as making peace in the controlling families, especially with succeeding generations.