About

Stephan Buchholz — Experience That Scales Across Borders

Built through senior commercial sales and project management roles at Siemens, MAN Energy Solutions, OSRAM, and Körber, I bring hands-on leadership in complex commercial environments.

10+ years leading complex commercial projects and global proposal governance

Full commercial and contractual responsibility for $150M+ businesses

End-to-end integration leadership across M&A, carve-outs, and global organizations

CFO role in India with accountability for finance, forecasting, and restructuring

Lived and operated across Europe, the U.S., India, and the Middle East

References: 

Ingrid Jägering, Member of the Management Board at STIHL 

Stephan worked for me in the management team at MAN Energy Solutions and at OSRAM Semiconductor. With his extensive experience in strategic contract and process topics, Stephan successfully introduced a contract lifecycle tool for business case assessments. His outgoing personality allows him to bring the right people together to align interfaces, processes, to drive process improvements, and to translate customer needs into long term solutions.

What I really enjoyed about working with Stephan is that no matter how complex or fluid the situation was, he would guide the teams towards the best solution and overcome any obstacle. I am glad to have had him on my team and I have no hesitation in recommending him ... .

Dr. Joerg Strauss EVP Quality, Research & Development amsOSRAM

I worked closely with Stephan over the last years on multiple occasions related to contracts with external partners (customers and suppliers). It was always my great pleasure to work with Stephan due to his strong professional skills especially in the area of contract management, his pragmatic/ solution oriented attitude and his embracing personality.

Most noteworthy is his strong push towards win-win solutions ... to ensure sustainable contract frameworks ... . 

Florentina Buchholz

Florentina is a strategic sales, operations, and enablement leader with over 15 years of experience driving growth and cross-border expansion across five geographic regions and high-growth tech, logistics & transportation, and insurance sector.

Operational Excellence at Scale: Currently leading operational strategy for a $4B North American sales organization at Amazon Web Services (AWS), she specializes in:

Scaling business operations and cross-border expansion through data-driven optimization

Developing KPIs and reporting structures that drive decision-making

Eliminating operational bottlenecks while maintaining compliance and quality

Building trust and aligning cross-functional teams through complex transformations

Cultural Bridge-Building Expertise: Having lived in six countries and fluent in five languages (including native Hungarian and Romanian), Florentina brings authentic cultural understanding to international expansion challenges. She combines sharp analytical thinking with deep empathy—essential for navigating the human side of cross-border business transformation.

Unique Value for Eastern European Companies: Her native language skills and cultural knowledge provide Hungarian and Romanian companies with seamless communication and cultural bridge-building that eliminates common expansion barriers.

Our Combined Approach

Buchholz Bridge Consulting was founded to give international companies—especially European and Eastern European firms—the strategic advantage they need to succeed in complex market expansions.

Our mission is simple: Help you achieve in 3-12 months what typically takes other companies 2-3 years, with fewer resources and better outcomes.

We don't just provide generic consulting advice. We solve the specific operational, cultural, and governance challenges that make or break international expansion—challenges we've personally navigated and successfully resolved for ourselves and our clients.

Ready to discuss your expansion challenges? Every successful international expansion starts with understanding the real obstacles you'll face. Let's identify yours.