Quality Director Europe
»In his role as Quality Director Europe, Christian helped us a lot to transfer our European projects to China. He converted the Chinese management team in our new plant in Suzhou into a fast acting organization. He orchestrated the collaboration with customer Bosch and Conti beyond pure quality aspects. His intercultural mindset helped the local organization to understand German engineering, prevented misunderstandings and removed roadblocks in China.«

Manager at AUNDE Group
»Christian impressed me during our time at the AUNDE Group by his expert knowledge in production. Implementing quality management in a practical way within operations in line with customer requirements an quality standards (IATF) was one of his strengths. His collaboration in the management team was straight forward in a practical way, this was a big advantage for us. His philosophy is hard on the facts and cooperative in the team.

Director Quality and SQA management within Purchasing organization
»Christian was for the purchasing organization a strategic partner. As the quality director, he was responsible for implementing the new supplier management system within Europe. His analytical and systematic approach in reorganization of business processes was the base for the successful supplier management at Tyco Electronics (TE Connectivity).«

Director Quality and SQA management within Purchasing organization
»... due to his personal impact in the reorganization of existing processes and the developing of new processes between supplier and our plants, he optimized die supply-chain significantly. As output of his activities, we gained better delivery performance, significantly better quality KPIs and subsequently an essential improvement of customer satisfaction. Christian was always a strong and cooperative partner for purchasing and the supply-chain department, who fought together to reach the final goal.«

Leading quality role in europe at Tyco Electronics
»Chris Katlapinski was appointed by me for the leading quality role in Europe at Tyco Electronics, due to his knowledge and process understanding. During my Tyco time he converted quality to an agile partner providing competitive advantage for our European business. I was impressed about the new ideas he brought up for well known problems and his straight forward approach of moving ideas into action. He gave us a lot of benefit for saving money by reducing complexity.«

Manager TE Connectivity
»I’ve worked with Christian Katlapinski together many years. In his role as my manager, he impressed me by his clear and open-minded approach working with teams. A boss, you can count on, even in special and critical situations, a manager stands for what he says!«

Vice President Quality
»As the Vice President Quality Christian Katlapinski reorganized our manufacturing processes. His “Go to GEMBA” approach helped us a lot working to together in a team with process engineering and operations. His straightforward communication style was always a great value. His quality- and cost-effective mindset is as important as listening to the voice of the customers. He was an appreciated partner of the operations organization.«