Jeffrey Herrmann Email: jeff'herrmanncn'pwc'com

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Jeffrey HerrmannEmail jeff.herrmann_at_cn.pwc.com
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Fax No. 86 10 6530 8033
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• Summary
• Jeff, a partner in the Beijing Office, has spent
  the majority of his career serving a number of
  US, European and China based clients, with
  specific focus in the automotive industry. He
  has extensive experience in the areas of MA due
  diligence, post deal integration and
  divestitures, along with corporate restructurings
  and cost reduction. Jeff currently leads the
  China firms Automotive Industry Practice, along
  with serving as the firms global Automotive
  Advisory Leader. He is specifically focused on
  inbound and outbound invest opportunities in
  China and Asia. In previous roles, Jeff led
  the growth of the China firms operational
  consulting practice and also served as the firms
  global relationship partner for General Motors.
• Jeff studied Engineering and Chemistry at the
  University of Notre Dame where he received his BS
  and furthered his education at the Carnegie
  Mellon School of Industrial Management were he
  received his MS. Previous to joining
  PricewaterhouseCoopers in 1990, Jeff worked for
  Merck and Co and BFGoodrich Specialty Chemicals.
• Relevant Project History
• With the majority of his experience in the
  Automotive and Industrial Products sector, Jeffs
  most recent experience has been leading a number
  of high profile MA transactions. Most recently,
  Jeff has been helping Chinese entities with
  outbound acquisitions. Relevant experience
  includes
• Led several China outbound transactions that have
  involved working with Chinese entities in
  developing acquisition strategies, assisting them
  with executing the transaction and advising on
  post deal operations and management.
• Conducted detailed Operational due diligence for
  multiple auto and industrial companies. This
  included due diligence activities for both buy
  and sell side transactions with focus on
  identification of operational improvement, cost
  reduction and one-time integration costs. These
  have been conducted for both small roll-ups and
  large, multinational merger candidates.
• Provided merger integration expertise for a host
  of strategic and financial buyers in the
  industrial sector. Implementations involved
  restructuring of operational, financial and
  administrative functions and implementation of
  management systems. Implementations resulted in
  accelerated integration and overall cost
  reduction of these functions from 5-30.
• Reengineered financial function and back office
  processes for several companies in both North
  America and China multi-billion dollar computer
  company, multi-billion dollar telecommunications
  company, multi billion dollar automotive company,
  and others. On average, implementation resulted
  in a 5-15 reduction of back office costs.
• Provided strategic cost reduction of several
  troubled companies. This included focused
  process re-alignment as well as targeted resource
  reductions.
• Designed and implemented a performance
  measurement and feedback system for a major
  automotive company.

• Clients Served
• General Motors
• Ford Motors
• Chana
• Daimler
• Dongfeng
• Beijing Automotive
• Foton
• Lear
• Johnson Controls
• TI Automotive
• VW
• Volvo
• Allied Signal
• Bristol-Myers Squibb
• IBM
• Siemens
• Eaton Corporation
• Fasco Industries