Andreas Krebs is an entrepreneur, investor, author and was Chairman of Merz KGaA until fall 2019.
Andreas Krebs is one of the few Germans to have made it to the Executive Board and Corporate America in a ‘Big Pharma’ group. Today, Krebs runs his own venture capital company Cologne Invest with a friend and partner, which invests in young start-ups and growth companies in many sectors and the ‘new economy’.
Until 2010, Andreas Krebs worked in international management positions for Bayer AG and Wyeth Corporation, most recently as Group CEO in the USA, with over 8,000 employees in 96 countries. He has worked in seven countries, including nine years in Latin America, Asia, Canada and most recently in the USA.
Andreas Krebs Lecture topics
- Healthcare 4.0 – Digital strategies for a booming industry
Andreas Krebs’ main topic is the incredible potential that is available in companies. Every year, the Gallup study confirms that around 60% of employees are ‘just doing their job’ and only 5-10% are even willing to go the extra mile, even though they can release a high level of energy in their free time. And the figures differ very little globally.
- The three C’s – Challenge, Charisma, Championship
How can we allow this as CEOs, board members and managers? What can we do specifically with management spans of 1000/10,000 employees and how do we not only achieve a high level of ’employee engagement’, but above all how do we create ‘CEO engagement’?
His book, “DIE ILLUSION DER UNBESIEGBARKEIT” (top title at GABAL, January 2018), with co-author Paul Williams, sold out after just a few weeks and is already in the next edition. The question of whether there is a rise without a fall, both as a successful person and for organizations and companies, interests practically everyone!
In December 2024, Andreas Krebs published his second book, the business thriller “The Last Memo”.
His presentations are highly interactive, emotional, positively commented and very close to real life. And above all, they are so practical that you can put a lot of them into practice immediately.
In plain language: Andreas Krebs also talks about ‘Globalization and Leadership’ and Entrepreneurship.