Heike Adam is an Expert for ESG, Finance & Inflation. She holds a Diploma-degree in Business Administration from Humboldt-University Berlin and owns over 20 years of international finance and management experience at Dax companies Henkel & Beiersdorf in the FMCG- & Chemical area. Today she is Partner at Theron Advisory Group, Advisory Board member of Intellisource GmbH as well as visiting lecturer of private university Euro-FH Hamburg.
Her broad ESG expertise has 4 sources: The detailed knowledge on European and international legislation and the profound practical experience in build-up of global ESG-type reportings on company side. With the ESG strategy certificate of Wharton School she owns current global knowledge on dynamics, methods and integration in companies’ strategies. By 35 years of engagement in climate and ecological topics she not only has a understanding for content but for the patterns of NGOs and dynamics of public opinion, too. Mainly from C-level and Supervisory Board perspective her advisory focusses on reporting and legislation, resulting risks and their mitigation.
The Finance expertise is both operational and strategic. She held the Controlling position in management board, drove ambitious target achievements in crisis, developed flexible management concepts. External requirements such as annual financial statements, IFRS, HGB as well as risk management and control systems are familiar to her on corporate and local level. As head of controlling she designed and managed efficiency, restructuring and investment projects.
Her vast experience is distinctively international, turn arounds in Southern Europe from Management Board, Corporate Accounting responsibility for Latin America, production site moves in Europe, acquisitions & carve outs in US and globally. She lead the global Outsourcing of Accounting to an Indian provider.
Heike’s rare inflation expertise is based on her own practical experience. At Henkel she was an expert for high-inflation-countries, has experienced value losses, liquidity crisis as well as the typical recession. Her work focusses on the impact of inflation drivers on liquidity, risks and business models as well as inflation resilience. Her “Inflation Market Model” is part of course offerings of Euro-FH Hamburg.
She worked & lived in the US & Italy, lead several global teams and projects.She is fluent in German and English, and speaks Spanish, Italian, and Russian.
Heike is member of the Supervisory Board of the Society of Economics and Management at the Humboldt University Berlin.