Christian Bender
CFO EMEA at IBH Ingenieurbüro Harm Elektrotechnik GmbH
Dusseldorf, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
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Top SchoolChristian Bender is a CFO and general manager with nine years of senior finance and P&L leadership across Europe, North America and Asia, currently serving as CFO EMEA at Voith Hydro. He has led large transformations—driving working capital programs, harmonized KPI reporting and digital finance initiatives—at multinational engineering and industrial firms including thyssenkrupp and GEA. A PhD in Business Administration and executive training at IMD and ESMT underpin his strategic, metrics-driven approach to complex, capital-intensive businesses. Outside finance he is an active hobby software developer and full‑stack open-source contributor, improving algorithms and data-structure projects across multiple languages (notably refactoring widely used algorithm repos). That technical curiosity informs his pragmatic embrace of digital transformation and automation in finance functions. Based in Düsseldorf, he also advises engineering and AI compliance ventures from board and advisory roles.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D. (Dr. rer. pol.) Business Administration (Betriebswirtschaftslehre), Ph.D. (Dr. rer. pol.) Business Administration (Betriebswirtschaftslehre) at University of MünsterExecutive Transition Program, Executive Transition Program at ESMT BerlinVisiting Ph.D. Student International Business, Visiting Ph.D. Student International Business at NYU Stern School of BusinessShaping Complex Businesses , Shaping Complex Businesses at IMDLondon School of Economics and Political Science
English, German, Spanish
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Github Skills (55)
algorithm10
calculator10
unit-testing10
sorting-algorithms10
algorithms10
javascript10
c-language10
python10
mathematics10
net10
stack10
typescript10
dotnet10
matlab10
object-oriented-programming10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
TheAlgorithms/MATLAB-Octave
Jan 2018 - Feb 2019
This repository contains algorithms written in MATLAB/Octave. Developing algorithms in the MATLAB environment empowers you to explore and refine ideas, and enables you test and verify your algorithm.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:29 commits, 10 PRs, 22 pushes in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Christian contributed to the repository by implementing various algorithms and solving Project Euler problems in MATLAB/Octave. Their contributions included functions for prime factorization, checking primality, solving Fibonacci sequences, and determining the largest palindrome number. Additionally, the user implemented the Sieve of Eratosthenes algorithm and the SDBM hash function. They also added and improved the nearest-neighbor algorithm and a counting sort algorithm.
mit-licenseoctave-scriptsdevelopingdatastructuresmatlab
keon/algorithms
Mar 2018 - Aug 2018
Minimal examples of data structures and algorithms in Python
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:69 commits, 39 PRs, 13 pushes in 4 months
Contributions summary:Christian contributed to both the backend and frontend of the project, implementing a simple user interface for a calculator application. They improved code efficiency and added comments to existing files, including code for matrix operations. The user also wrote test suites for several Python modules, specifically in the areas of stacks, linked lists, and mathematical functions.
pythonalgorithms-and-data-structuresgraphcompetitive-programmingdata-structures
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