Homepage Introduction Program Speakers ARTICLES Links Registration Venue Contact		Albrecht Bochow   Biography Albrecht Bochow is the Director, Automotive Group of the German Industrial Investment Council (IIC), a foreign direct investment consulting agency with the official mandate of the federal German Government. Under his direction the company recently opened an office in Troy, Michigan to support North American investors interested in business opportunities in former eastern Germany.   Bochow has been with the IIC since 2000 and has consulted with numerous North American automotive suppliers on JV, M&A as well as Greenfield projects linked to the growing automotive clusters in former eastern Germany. Among those companies who currently operate or do business in the area are New Venture Gear, DaimlerChrysler, Dana, American Axle & Manufacturing, Peterson Springs, Cloyes Gear and KSR Automotive.   Prior to joining the IIC, Bochow worked for Volkswagen in Wolfsburg, Germany and Puebla, Mexico where he negotiated the entire raw steel production volume from NAFTA sources. Before that he was a Purchasing Manager for aluminium casting parts at Volkswagen. Bochow, a native of former eastern Germany received an MBA from the College of William & Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia. He also holds a Masters Degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Technical University of Dresden in Germany. While working with the Industrial Investment Council, Mr. Bochow is currently pursuing the studies and the research to write a doctoral dissertation on the topic: "Foreign Direct Investment in the eastern German Automotive Industry".		David B. Audretsch Iris Beckmann Thorsten Benner Albrecht Bochow William Gaines Heike Grimm Reinhard von Hennigs Dietmar Herz Ralf Kersten Paul D. Reynolds Christian Schetter Rolf Sternberg Jochen Struck James Turner Friederike Welter Charles Wessner
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