Executive Experience Built Over More Than Three Decades

Herwarth Brune has spent more than 35 years in international executive leadership across global industrial and professional services organisations. During this time, he has led businesses with annual revenues of up to €1 billion and workforces exceeding 22,000 employees, driving growth, transformation and organisational development in complex international environments. 

His executive career has included responsibility for business growth, acquisitions, post-merger integration, organisational transformation, leadership development and strategic repositioning across multiple industries.

The examples below illustrate selected areas of executive responsibility and achievement.

Throughout his executive career, Herwarth Brune has led acquisitions, integrations and strategic expansion initiatives.

At Securitas Germany he was responsible for the acquisition and successful integration of electronic security companies as part of the company's transformation towards an integrated security solutions provider.

Earlier, as Managing Director of ManpowerGroup Germany, he led the acquisition and integration of the 7S Group—one of the largest transactions in the German staffing and workforce solutions market at the time. 

Growth has been a consistent theme throughout Herwarth Brune's executive career.

Herwarth Brune has led multiple business transformations ranging from strategic repositioning and organisational redesign to post-merger integration and operational improvement.

These transformation programmes have consistently combined business growth with organisational modernisation, leadership development and sustainable performance improvement.

A central element of Herwarth Brune's leadership philosophy has been the development of strong leadership teams and organisational cultures that enable long-term performance.

Throughout his international career he has built diverse executive teams, developed future leaders and supported organisations through periods of significant change. At Securitas Germany, the executive leadership team was modernised to include close to 50% female representation while strengthening diversity of experience and background. 

Herwarth Brune has been actively involved in education, community engagement and corporate responsibility throughout his career.

His activities have included long-standing board roles supporting educational institutions, mentoring graduate students, and leading Corporate Social Responsibility initiatives at European level.