Curriculum Vitae   -   Christian Sanner

Christian Sanner served for nearly 3 decades at the Daimler Group in capacities like Manager Corporate Audit Domestic Sales Organisation, Senior Manager Corporate M&A, General Manager Corporate M&A, General Manager/CFO Düsseldorf Plant. During his career at Daimler Group, Christian held various positions as a manager and commercial director after joining the corporate audit department in 1972.

Between 1995 and 2002, he was a member of the board of Düsseldorf-based unit Mercedes-Benz Lenkungen GmbH, which was spun off from the Group and successfully sold to ThyssenKrupp Group under his supervision.

Since then, he had various assignments in the German automotive industries, amongst others interim managing director of Bishop Steering Technology GmbH, a subsidiary of Sydney/Australia based Bishop Technology Group.

Between 2006 and 2011 he acted as Head of Automotive of the Frankfurt based investment banking boutique SynCap Management GmbH, member of Clairfield International. Today, he runs his own business under the umbrella of LSK – Advisers to Entrepreneurs.

Christian Sanner studied engineering and business economics at Technical University of Berlin and business administration at the University of Hamburg. He graduated with a master’s degree in BA (Dipl.-Kaufmann).