"Be different. Show courage. Shape the future."
As a former international corporate strategy manager and direct report to a member of the management board, I do know your strategic and operational pain points in freight forwarding, logistics and automotive. For 18 years, I am a trusted advisor to leaders in the international holding and family owned business arena in Eurasia. Having your best interest at heart, my deep business understanding is what makes me a trusted advisor. Speed of execution makes the difference.
Are you looking for a strategist with hands-on operational background, strong skills in change leadership, business development and execution? A "special resource" who has "survived" in a matrix organization, at the OEM customer frontline and on the corporate boardroom? Someone who will motivate your employees to lifelong learning with tangible enthusiasm for your all important digital industrialization?
I am a trusted advisor to managers and their leadership teams in the logistics and automotive industry in Germany and along China's One Belt One Road corridors. For years, I have been highlighting that we no longer consider the supply chain purely from an operational function. Today, supply chain management is (geo-)strategic management and access on geo-strategic infrastructure. But above all, supply chain management is about enabling competitive advantages in the interaction of people, culture, technology, data and assets.
Are you looking for a strategist with hands-on operational background, strong skills in change leadership, business development and execution? A "special resource" who has "survived" in a matrix organization, at the OEM customer frontline and on the corporate boardroom? Someone who will motivate your employees to lifelong learning with tangible enthusiasm for your all important digital industrialization?
I am a trusted advisor to managers and their leadership teams in the logistics and automotive industry in Germany and along China's One Belt One Road corridors. For years, I have been highlighting that we no longer consider the supply chain purely from an operational function. Today, supply chain management is (geo-)strategic management and access on geo-strategic infrastructure. But above all, supply chain management is about enabling competitive advantages in the interaction of people, culture, technology, data and assets.
Vita
Prof. Dr. Stefan Iskan looks back on 18 years of experience in the logistics and automotive industry. The "reliable man of practice who breaks the speaking speed limit" (DVZ, KargoHaber 2013, 2016) "is currently one of the most highly demanded logistics service provider management, change and automotive logistics experts. His word is influencing many leaders. Iskan talks straight forward. And that is exactly what his audience and managers who rely on working with him appreciate" (DVZ 2021). Since 2012, the former junior player of German soccer club 1. FC Nürnberg has been on the road with the former IBM Germany CEO and honorary president of German soccer club VfB Stuttgart, Erwin Staudt.
Prof. Dr. Stefan Iskan worked as a manager corporate strategy for the top management in Berlin and Istanbul within the holding management of DB Mobility Logistics AG, the Deutsche Bahn AG group for its transport and logistics business (DB Cargo and DB Schenker). At Schenker AG in Essen, he was also responsible for strategic projects and business development and reported directly to a member of the mangement board, being responsible for region Europe and the DB Schenker Land Transport network organization.
Prof. Dr. Stefan Iskan looks back on 18 years of experience in the logistics and automotive industry. The "reliable man of practice who breaks the speaking speed limit" (DVZ, KargoHaber 2013, 2016) "is currently one of the most highly demanded logistics service provider management, change and automotive logistics experts. His word is influencing many leaders. Iskan talks straight forward. And that is exactly what his audience and managers who rely on working with him appreciate" (DVZ 2021). Since 2012, the former junior player of German soccer club 1. FC Nürnberg has been on the road with the former IBM Germany CEO and honorary president of German soccer club VfB Stuttgart, Erwin Staudt.
Prof. Dr. Stefan Iskan worked as a manager corporate strategy for the top management in Berlin and Istanbul within the holding management of DB Mobility Logistics AG, the Deutsche Bahn AG group for its transport and logistics business (DB Cargo and DB Schenker). At Schenker AG in Essen, he was also responsible for strategic projects and business development and reported directly to a member of the mangement board, being responsible for region Europe and the DB Schenker Land Transport network organization.
University of Applied Sciences Ludwigshafen
In 2013, he was appointed to the full professorship for logistics and business informatics at the University of Applied Sciences Ludwigshafen in Germany. A special focus is on automotive SCM, procurement of logistics services, (tender) management and industrialization as well as the corridors of the New Silk Road. In parallel, he had received and rejected a call to the full professorhip for strategic management and business skills at the HTW Saar, the University of Applied Sciences in Saarbrücken, Germany.
Prof. Dr. Stefan Iskan is expert e.g. in manager magazin, SWR TV and various daily newspapers. In November 2021, his latest book was subject of an MDR radio podcast - available in the ARD TV audiothek. His interviews and articles are published in international logistics and automotive media.
From Automotive to DHL Packstation
Prof. Dr. Stefan Iskan also was a Key Account Manager OEM at the Automotive Transport & Systems (ATS) unit of Schenker Deutschland AG in Frankfurt. There, he developed an integrated supply chain solution for connecting Asian and Maghreb suppliers to European OEM production sites. He also focused on the pan-European area freight forwarding system (Gebietssspedition), including intermodal solutions to Russia and Türkiye. At Deutsche Post Consult GmbH, he rolled out the innnovative DHL last mile delivery system Packstation in several German cities. Based on the implementation of rail-based finished vehicle transports at the Bremen plant as well the procurement of inbound transport logistics service providers at the Stuttgart headquarters, he still is associated with the Mercedes-Benz Group AG.
Altinay Bekar
Independent Editor in Chief & Moderator
Independent Editor in Chief & Moderator
Altinay Bekar has a strong footprint in international media and trade fairs around transport, logistics, commercial vehicles and trailer industry. She had a strong contribution and a leading position in establishment the International Transport Logistics Exhibition logitrans - the sister exhibition of transport logistic in Munich, the world's leading fair for logistics, mobility, IT and supply chain management. Altinay Bekar not only is a perfect interpreter between the markets along China's One Belt One Road, she also is a professional moderator. For more than 15 years, she was editor in chief of Intermodal Magazin and member of the editorial board of KargoHaber.
Ilker Altun
Independent Club Manager Eurasia
Independent Club Manager Eurasia
Ilker Altun is our Club Manager Eurasia with a strong network at decision-maker level along the future corridors of the New Silk Road. He is Managing Director of EKO MMI Fuarcılık Ltd. Şti, the joint venture of Messe München GmbH based in Istanbul. The joint venture organizes the International Transport Logistics Exhibition logitrans every year in November. It is the largest logistics trade fair show in the Eurasian region. Ilker Altun has been the owner of Aysberg Press & Publishing Co. for 30 years and is the publisher of transport, logistics and commercial vehicle media with an international reach.
E. Seren Ünsaç
Independent Vice Club Manager Eurasia
Independent Vice Club Manager Eurasia
Seren Ünsaç represents the new digital generation and connects industrial manufacturers and logistics service providers of the old economy along the future corridors of the New Silk Road with our innovative platform. Seren Ünsaç organizes the International Transport Logistics Exhibition logitrans in Istanbul - together with Messe München GmbH. Located in Istanbul, she also leads as Vice General Manager of Eko Fuarcılık Ltd. Şti. the international trade fair program and manages our international club members and live community events in the Eurasian region.
Robert Kölbl
Independent IT System Integrator & Video Engineer
Independent IT System Integrator & Video Engineer
Robert Kölbl is a precisely specialist meeting today's challenges of modernizing complex legacy IT systems during ongoing operations. The creative perfectionist is an expert on workflow automation, high performing fault tolerant servers and storage as well as cyber security. Robert Kölbl has been working independently in the IT industry for over 25 years. His closest partners include the world's leading Japanese technology group NEC Corporation (Sumitomo) and Oracle Platinum Partner ISE Information Systems Engineering.
For companies with a future mindset in Eurasia.
