Remi Smolinski

HHL Leipzig Graduate School of Management

Professor

Academic Director

Visiting Professor

ESCP Business School

The Negotiation Center

The Negotiation Center is an international think tank that focuses on advancing the understanding of negotiation as a managerial skill and helps its clients improve their negotiation intelligence and develop negotiation skills.

The Negotiation Center organizes annual international negotiation competitions for students and professionals under the brand: The Negotiation Challenge: https://thenegotiationchallenge.org/.

The Negotiation Center offers innovative and highly interactive basic and advanced negotiation workshops, seminars, and lectures for academic institutions and corporate clients. Our teaching offer is based on experiential learning and combines solid academic foundation with strong practical focus.

The experts from The Negotiation Center consult our clients in their most complex negotiations and/or actively support them at the negotiation table.

Founder

Econnections

Co-Founder

hy – the Axel Springer Consulting Group

Practice Lead advising DAX companies, successful SMEs and scale-ups on developing and implementing growth strategies, building or optimizing innovation units, identifying strategic sustainability initiatives, validating new business models and products, building new ventures. CDO-as-a-service.

Senior Vice President

BETREASURY ASSET MANAGEMENT AG

–	Built a blockchain fintech startup 
–	Designed and launched BUSD, a stablecoin pegged to USD, a BUSD wallet, all linked to a current account with a credit card
–	Built and managed a team of ca. 30 employees in three countries: China (business development, marketing, operations, IT), Hong Kong (finance), USA (blockchain R&D).
–	Developed growth strategy and managed its execution
–	Designed, developed, tested and launched innovative products.
–	Secured 2M USD seed funding from an angel investor.
–	Prepared an exit strategy

Chief Executive Officer

comdirect – eine Marke der Commerzbank AG

–	Managed corporate strategy development process
–	Introduced systematic innovation management and helped establish comdirect Bank AG as one of the most innovative banks in Germany (brandeins ranking)
–	Identified and evaluated of relevant technological and business developments in the FinTech industry, introduced Innovation Radar, as a strategic foresight method
–	Conceptualized, developed and launched innovative projects, many of which e.g. smartPay and Bonus-Sparen were awarded with multiple domestic and international innovation awards
–	Initiated a series of intrapreneurship initiatives and resulting in the development of various innovative products such as blockchain based peer-to-peer trading marketplace, marketplace for alternative assets.
–	Founder of the comdirect Startup Garage (www.comdirect-garage.de) – an innovation award winning accelerator program for young and ambitious FinTechs, their further conceptual development up to the proof of concept, structuring and negotiating the rules of the further commercial cooperation and/or investment terms 
–	Developed synergies between the Commerzbank Group entities, introduced a comprehensive innovation management process for the Group; co-founder of the Collabothon (www.collabothon.de) – a cross-industry hackathon; initiator of the Innovation Bootcamps – a learning journeys for the innovation drivers in the Group

VP Business Development & Innovation Management

Aarhus BSS - Aarhus University

Research Associate

Otto Group

–	Designed innovation strategy for the Otto Group and managed its execution.
–	Led a team of experts responsible for identifying, evaluating and driving ecommerce innovations and synergies within the Otto Group.
–	Designed, A/B tested and rolled out dynamic pricing algorithm in the major entities of the Otto Group.
–	Initiated and managed the implementation of strategic innovative pilot projects at various companies in the Otto Group with an estimated total revenue potential of ca. 500 Million Euro.

Head of Innovation Management - Corporate Development

IESEG School of Management

Assistant Professor

Negotiation professor, seasoned executive and advisor passionate about technology, innovation, sustainability and growth, experienced in:  negotiation training, coaching, and consulting, innovation management, strategic foresight, venture building, digital transformation, strategy development and execution, business development,  corporate development, internationalization, sustainability.

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