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Prof. Dr. Alexander P\u00f6schl<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Professor of Entrepreneurship at University of Applied Sciences Saarbr\u00fccken (HTW Saar)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I specialise in entrepreneurship (start-ups, family businesses and their succession) as well as M&A and buy-ins.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Selected career milestones<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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2011 to 2017<\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Head of Corporate Development<\/a> at Conrad Electronic SE as well as authorised signatory and commercial manager within the Auto-Teile Unger Group (ATU), where I was responsible for the rubber compounding and recycling division “Estato” with 100 employees and a turnover of around 35 million euros. Restructuring of Estato with first growth in four years<\/a> and preparation of Estato for takeover by the Mobivia Group (with ATU).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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2017\/18-2020<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Co-founder of digitalbetrieben GmbH, specialised in digitisation projects and training as well as data science. Among other things, initiated the joint venture with Grundig Academy<\/a> for Germany-wide “Digital Tool Labs” events. Our start-up was taken over by the IT and innovation consultancy bewegewas Holding GmbH<\/a> in 2020. Afterwards I became a minority shareholder at bewegewas.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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2020<\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Search, structuring and negotiation of the partial sale of P\u00f6schl Catering GmbH<\/a>, a medium-sized catering company with around 80 employees. The company was founded in 1978 and is now a family-external, second-generation company.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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20<\/strong>21 to date<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Advisor for bewegewas on its sale to Conrad Electronic SE<\/a>. Professor of Entrepreneurship at HTW Saar since the beginning of 2022<\/a>. Lectures include corporate management and entrepreneurship, start-up and succession management or valuation. Iniitiated the cooperation between HTW and Universiti Teknologi Mara (UiTM)<\/a> in Malaysia. Research project on entrepreneurship-through-acquisition, funded by Montan-Stiftung-Saar, among others.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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From left to right: bewegewas\/digitalbetrieben-GF\/shareholder, newspaper article on this in the Amberger Zeitung, report on the Conrad transaction in ChannelPartner, article in the Donaukurier on the P\u00f6schl catering transaction.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Research<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

My empirical research focuses on entrepreneurial change in start-ups and small and medium-sized (family) enterprises. The most recent peer-reviewed studies I have published address the following topics, among others: <\/p>\n\n\n\n