Carolin Reichert
Chief Strategy Officer
Carolin Reichert is the Chief Strategy Officer of HARMAN, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
Carolin holds responsibility for Corporate Strategy and M&A and drives business strategies in collaboration with the Divisions with a focus on portfolio management and strategic partnerships. Carolin reports to the President and Chief Executive Officer of HARMAN, and President of HARMAN's Automotive Division, Christian Sobottka, and is a member of the Senior Leadership Team (SLT).
Carolin has over 25 years of experience in strategy, M&A, business roles and management consulting in automotive, technology and energy. Carolin has held senior roles at Roland Berger, Infineon Technologies, RWE, PSA (today part of Stellantis) and Robert Bosch.
Carolin understands business trends as well as cutting-edge technologies allowing her to identify and to confidently judge business opportunities, to think in business models and to drive portfolio optimization. She is well connected to decision makers in leading start-ups and tech companies, collaborates extensively with Investment Banks, Strategy Consulting Companies and Private Equity firms and has market insights across sectors and key regions.
In the past years Carolin's focus was the development and successful execution of growth strategies and transformations comprising M&A, strategic partnerships and the incubation and scaling of new businesses on a global scale.
Carolin holds an MBA with a specialization in Computer Science and Business Administration from the University of Mannheim.
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