Dr. Hans Liebler joined SCM’s Board of Directors on June 1 2008. Since July 2006 Dr. Liebler has been a general partner of Lincoln Vale European Partners an investment management company he co-founded that is focused on strategic long-term investments in European small- and mid-cap companies and which is currently a significant stockholder of the Company. From September 2002 to July 2006 Dr. Liebler managed an investment fund he had conceived for Allianz AG applying a private equity approach to European publicly listed companies. Dr. Liebler started his career at consulting company McKinsey & Company in Madrid and New York. He subsequently co-led McKinsey’s German Corporate Finance practice during a time of expansion leading many major European merger and acquisition projects and IPOs.
Since 1998 Dr. Liebler has also served as an adjunct professor at the European Business School in Germany. He holds a Master’s degree in Business Administration from the University of Munich and a Ph.D in Finance from the University of St. Gallen in Switzerland. |