The intelligentis team

Matthias Ehnert (born 1980) experienced his first corporate transaction in 2004 at a listed company in the financial sector. Since then, he has been active in countless projects in medium-sized companies and also in corporate groups. In 2010, he founded intelligentis GmbH with the aim of solving business challenges for entrepreneurs in a goal-oriented manner.

Rainer Witt has been an entrepreneur in the IT field for 20 years and advises his clients on IT strategy and all questions of digitalisation in order to sustainably increase their value creation. He provided support at an early stage in the technical integration of mergers and acquisitions in the M&A environment. In the course of this, he got to know the complexity of a company acquisition. Since then, he has assisted many companies in their successful acquisition and subsequent integration.

After studying philosophy and business informatics, he founded the company kreITiv GmbH, as a digitalisation forge for growing companies. From this activity, he has an extensive network in the IT-related industries in Germany and has contacts to many successful, medium-sized IT entrepreneurs.

As a technology and integration expert at intelligentis, he advises our clients on transactions with a view to successful integrations, key technologies and synergy development with a focus on processes shaped by IT.

Dr. Maik Hamann has a doctorate in controlling on the impact of corporate planning on success, which gives him a comprehensive understanding of all topics related to key figure management as well as strategic and operative planning. Due to his training as a banker and as an alumnus of the Eberle-Butschkau Foundation, Dr. Hamann has very good knowledge of the German financial sector as well as an extensive network in the German savings bank organisation.

As an advisor to works councils, he has in the past accompanied the carve-out of locations from corporate groups, especially in the pharmaceutical and chemical industries. The sale of these business units to various medium-sized companies was his entry into the M&A sector. For more than 20 years, Dr. Hamann has also been active in various areas of consulting, project management and organisational development. As an experienced project manager, he has been responsible for the smooth operational process in the intelligentis projects to the complete satisfaction of our clients since 2018.

Ron Schimkat is a Senior Associate at intelligentis and is responsible for M&A sell and buy side projects. In addition, he accompanies fundraise processes and stressed M&A mandates. He is significantly involved in the expansion and maintenance of existing business relationships. Due to his experience in the mid – cap sector and investment banking, his focus is on the negotiation and execution of M&A transactions.

Ron Schimkat graduated in business law from the Technical University of Dresden with a focus on media law, capital market law and M&A. He worked for a medium-sized, national law firm and gained valuable experience as an M&A analyst at Saxenhammer in Berlin. With his profound knowledge and relevant experience, he understands how to execute M&A projects in a targeted and structured manner.

Heiko Thomas has more than 25 years of experience in general mechanical engineering and mining. As an inventor, he registered valuable industrial property rights in this sector. He was managing director and co-partner of B&T Holding GmbH and its portfolio companies FB-Aufzüge GmbH & Co. KG, Aufzugteile BT GmbH, Kubb GmbH and Lift 24 GmbH.

In 2016, this group of companies was sold to Schindler. This transaction attracted international attention. Mr. Thomas is chairman of the supervisory board of DEM – Deutsche E Metalle AG. He advises on company sales, succession arrangements, investor searches and expansions in Europe, America and Canada. As an advisor to our industry team, he is familiar with the current sector-specific trends in the relevant industry niches and can draw on his global as well as local relationships in the search for the appropriate strategic partner. Thomas has a wide-ranging understanding of the German SME sector and numerous contacts with medium-sized companies as well as group companies.

Micha Zauner holds a PhD in Geophysics (TU Clausthal) and a Master’s degree in Deposit Science (TU Bergakademie Freiberg) with ongoing close R&D collaborations with renowned resource research institutions and universities. He is an experienced multilingual and cross-cultural mining and exploration consultant for international technology metals projects (focus on REE, U, Sc, Li, Au, Cu, Co, among others) with field visits and work experience in Europe, Australia, Asia, Africa, and North and Latin America.

Micha Zauner is also head of the mineral resources department at UIT GmbH Dresden (consulting and engineering company of General Atomics) and expert in the Mineral Working Group for Resource Classification of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE).

Dr. Jürgen Ehnert is a co-founder of the former intelligentis GmbH and experienced numerous company transactions in his work as Managing Director of the Labour Market and Education Division of the Saxony-Anhalt State Association of Employers’ and Business Associations and the Bildungswerk der Unternehmerverbände. More than 50% of all company transfers do not develop the desired effect for the buyer due to a lack of communication and coordination.

With his extensive expertise in the field of vocational training and further education, he accompanies both employers and employees in the phase after the change of ownership, the so-called post-merger phase, to ensure a smooth and communicatively coordinated transition process. In doing so, he combines the needs of the staff with his view of the business processes, which he, as an auditor according to DIN EN 19011 for management systems in the areas of ISO 9001, AZWV, AZAV, ISO 29990, optimally coordinates.