Christian
Baumgart

Highly engaged digitalization leader with broad experience in process management, global tax and compliance.

Attributes
Career
Personal

Attributes

Inspiring

  • Sustainably inspire and engage customers as well as employees
  • Proven strength in sales and acquisition 
    • big deal advisor (incl. business case, customer needs, key account management and contract negotiations)
    • speaker at conferences and responsible for external marketing (e.g. digital portfolio metaverse)

Leading

  • Empathic leader (50+ employees, location manager Berlin)
  • Trained business coach
  • Various global roles and responsibilities

Strategic

  • Strategic thinking with the big picture in mind 
  • Chief Digital Officer (strategic consulting of C level in digitalization topics)
  • Responsible for financials and budgets > 40 Mio EUR plus 8-digit global budgets

Innovative

  • Establishing new business models (digitalization, transformation consulting and most recently a digital hub with near-shore development teams) 
  • Covering the entire target operating model (strategy, personnel, processes and responsibilities, technology through to change management)
  • Responsible for (advanced) analytics and the collaboration with DFKI (German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence)

Constructive

  • Positive mindset and confidence in employees' skills, strength-based leadership
  • Creating a working environment for a better development of abilities
  • Giving room for development up to partner level

Professional background

Planned July until Sep 2022
Sabbatical
April 2019 until June 2022
Partner WTS Digital, Managing Director WTS RET Steuerberatungsgesellschaft mbH, Berlin Office/ Location Manager, Head of Digital Hub and Chief Digital Officer (CDO).
  • Details see WTS testimonial
June 2003 until March 2019
Manager, Senior Manager, Partner and subsequently Equity Partner (since October 2014) at KPMG AG , Munich/ Stuttgart/ London (assignment) and Berlin with various global roles
  • Details see KPMG testimonial
October 1999 until April 2003
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Further education

German Certified Tax Advisor (February 2003)

Several further professional training, in particular:

  • Certified Business Coach BCCP (Bridgehouse Certified Coaching Professional).
  • Various soft skill trainings in the areas of personnel management, presentation techniques, design thinking, sales and pricing, project management

Personal details

Born May 06, 1977
Place of birth: Stralsund
Marital status: married, 2 children
Nationality: German

Persiusstr. 11
14469 Potsdam

Cell 0179 6036 765
Mail chris.baumgart@t-online.de