Dr. Marc Oliver Opresnik studied business economics from 1989 to 1996 at the University of Hamburg specialising in Marketing, Human Resource Management and Business English. In 1998 he completed his Ph.D. on "Corporate Culture in the USA and Germany".
Alongside his studies and the doctorate Dr. Opresnik worked as a business consultant for several enterprises such as BMW, Unilever and Mercedes-Benz. He started as a corporate trainee in 1998 in the retail business at the DEA Mineraloel AG carrying out a number of roles in various departments. Then in 1999, he worked as a sales planning manager and then operations account manager in the sales force. After two years of experience as a senior marketing manager for the food business from 2000 until 2002, Dr. Opresnik worked as a business development manager in the joint venture com-pany "Shell & DEA Oil GmbH". His responsibilities included the development, planning, implementa-tion and controlling of new business models and organisational structures in the retail business.
From 1st July 2003 until 31st October 2005 Dr. Opresnik worked as a Property Consultant on the de-velopment of the retail network, which required site-specific profitability analysis and business case development.
From 2005 until 2006, Dr. Opresnik was based in London and worked in the Global Strategy & Portfo-lio team for Shell International Petroleum Co Ltd.. This role involved coordinating and planning global strategies for rollout to over 45,000 sites in 130+ countries. In parallel Dr. Opresnik had to ensure the motivation, coordination and leading of over 10.000 employees being affected by the implementation of appropriate projects.
Dr. Opresnik was a professor of International Management at the FHDW Hannover from 1.10.2006 until 31.12.2009.
Since January 2008, Dr. Opresnik is a professor of Business Economics, in particular Marketing and Management at the Lübeck University of Applied Sciences in Germany and a visting professor to other international universities such as the East China Univerity of Science & Technology (ECUST) in Shanghai and the European Business School London.
Dr. Opresnik has 10 years experience from working as Senior Marketing Manager, Business Development Manager and Global Coordinator Project Planning in Strategy & Portfolio for Shell International Petroleum Co. Ltd.. Marc Opresnik has worked as a business consultant for several multinational companies, institutions and governments (cf www.opresnik-management-consulting.de).
You may contact Dr. Opresnik writing to opresnik@fh-luebeck.de
Kind regards and thanks for your attention,
Prof. Dr. Marc Opresnik
