Team
We are a committed team tasked with successfully defining and realizing goals. By combining differentiated specialty knowledge and defining clear factual and technical tasks, challenges become manageable. And intuition, knowledge, experience and technical understanding work together synergistically.
Birgit Barden-Läufer
Geschäftsführerin
Vita Dr. Birgit Barden´-Läufer
Dr Birgit Barden-Läufer has more than 20 years of experience in international cooperation, management and organization. She is a trained systemic management consultant.
She studied linguistics and psychology at the University of Konstanz, received her doctorate in sociolinguistics from the University of Hamburg and taught for four years at the Universitas Negri Yogyakarta, Indonesia.
Thomas Overbeck
Kaufmännischer Leiter
Vita Thomas Overbeck
Thomas Overbeck has more than 25 years of professional experience in the areas of administration, accounting and taxes. It has been supporting Corvay in these areas since autumn 2019.
He studied business administration in Göttingen and then successfully passed the tax consultant and auditor exams.
Dr. Albrecht Läufer
Geschäftsführer CC, CSC
Vita Dr. Albrecht Läufer
Dr Laufer has more than 30 years of international management experience in management positions in the pharmaceutical and chemical industry. He is the owner of Corvay GmbH and owner and Managing Director of Corvay Specialty Chemicals GmbH. He has been a shareholder and managing director at BluCon Biotech GmbH, Cologne, since 2017. In 2002 he co-founded Vakzine Projekt Management (VPM), which he built up and managed as managing partner from 2003 to 2008.
At Solvay Pharmaceuticals from 1997 – 2003 he was Regional Director responsible for Asia, Canada, Australia, Turkey and the Middle East and South Africa. As Managing Director of Solvay Enzymes from 1993 to 1997, he was responsible for the global business with detergent enzymes, as well as the entire business in Europe enzyme business.
Dr Laufer studied biochemistry in Tübingen and chemistry in Basel. He received his doctorate in physical chemistry from the University of Braunschweig.
Sebastian Schmidt
Marketing & Sales Manager
Vita Sebastian Schmidt
Sebastian Schmidt has been working in Marketing and Sales at Corvay Specialty Chemicals GmbH since January 2019. Before that, he was responsible for marketing at a medium-sized chemical company for several years. In addition, he gained experience in sales and purchasing in the chemical industry.
Sebastian Schmidt studied business administration at the University of Osnabrück and holds a degree in business administration.
Dr. David Müller
Geschäftsführer CBP, Senior Project Manager CC
Vita Dr. David Müller
Dr David Müller has many years of international experience in research and development of active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) and in custom synthesis. Most recently, as a project manager, he was responsible for the development of parenteral drugs.
He studied chemistry in Germany and Australia and did his doctorate in organic chemistry in Cologne. David Müller holds a project management certificate from the International Project Management Association (IPMA Level D).
Ms Ping Wu, chin. 吴平
Leitung des Corvay China Büros
Vita Dr. Birgit Barden´-Läufer
Room 107, #20 Jiafeng Road,
China (Shanghai) Pilot Free Trade Zone,
Post Code 200131
中国（上海）
自由贸易试验区,
加枫路20号1层107室
Ping Wu has over 25 years of experience in both Sales & Marketing and Project & Distribution Management in the United States.
After 15 years as an International Sales & Marketing manager for American technology companies, Ms. Ping Wu became the main partner for the iView Consulting Group in Colorado USA, where she has provided her professional advice to various leading companies.
Ping Wu holds an MBA from the College of Business, Eastern Michigan University USA.
Bruno Rudnik
Partner
Vita Bruno Rudnik
Bruno Rudnik has 15 years of experience advising European, American and Asian corporations, SMEs and start-ups on their internationalization strategies and investment projects in global growth markets.
His industry focus is on environmental technologies such as bio-based chemicals/materials, waste and circular economy, energy efficiency and air/water/soil treatment. His work focuses on projects in the Asian emerging markets. For a leading German consulting company, Bruno Rudnik headed the global “Chemical Industry Practice” in Munich and Shanghai. He has been Managing Director of SusTech Consult in Munich since 2011 and supports innovative environmental technology companies with market entry, technology scaling and financing in Asia i.B. in China and India.In addition, Bruno Rudnik is a spokesman for environmental technologies at the German-Chinese Business Association (DCW), the leading network for promoting economic relations between Germany and China. He comments on and moderates current topics on the challenges and opportunities of German-Chinese cooperation in the field of environmental technologies for DCW.Bruno Rudnik studied business administration in Germany, Sweden and China and holds a degree in business administration from the University of Passau.
Gregor Läufer
Project Manager
Vita Gregor Läufer
Gregor Laufer has been with Corvay since 2013. He has a B.Sc. in Business Informatics from University of Mannheim.
Dr. Arinc Kayacelebi
Project Manager
Vita Dr. Arinc Kayacelebi
Dr. Arinc Kayacelebi has 10 years of professional experience in the areas of development, validation and establishment of analytical methods in pharmacological research.
He studied biochemistry at Leibniz Universität Hannover and received his PhD from the Institute of Toxicology at the Hannover Medical School.
Conrad Bücheleres
Head Corporate Development and Advisory CC, CSC
Vita Conrad Bücheleres
Conrad has developed his previous career in consulting & industry (specialty chemicals & energy) with a strong focus on Asia. Working from Beijing & Shanghai for a total of 14 years and active in the areas of business development, consulting and most recently in China as Managing Director for a global top 3 specialty chemicals distributor, he and the local team increased sales to >100 million EUR and the Team strength to 86 FTEs.
He has functionally managed projects in the areas of strategic partner screening and negotiations, site search, competitive benchmarking, business plan formulation, growth strategy formulation, post-merger integration, shared service center facilities and realignment of traditional industrial companies to renewable energy and materials business concepts.
Academically, Conrad holds a German Diplom-Kaufmann, an MBA from Rutgers Business School (New Jersey, USA) and a Master of Industrial Distribution from Texas A&M University (Texas, USA). He is fluent in Mandarin Chinese, German and English.
Kooperationspartner
Langjähriger enger Geschäftspartner von Corvay in Indien ist Fermenta Biotech.
ASA Partner für die Entwicklung, von Verfahren Enzyme und Microorganism.
Fermenta Biotech
Langjähriger Partner für die Skalierung nachhaltiger Technologien als Chance für aufstrebende Märkte mit Schwerpunkt Asien.
Enger Partner für Beratung und Engineering Lösungen für die Biotechnologie Industrie.
Netzwerke
Unsere exzellenten Beziehungen zu Wissenschaft, Verwaltung und Industrie ermöglichen es uns, erfolgreiche Kooperationen einzugehen und neue Ideen effektiv voranzutreiben. Wir erschaffen Netzwerke zur Entwicklung innovativer Ideen und agieren als Kontaktstelle, um Wissenschaft und Unternehmen zusammenzubringen.
