Alexander Kahlmann started his career in the European financial services industry, covering among others the Media and Telecommunication sectors. In 2003 he joined SCHICKLER, an international management consultancy focused on the media industry. At SCHICKLER, Alexander led over a hundred of strategy, restructuring and marketing projects in the media segment in countries like Russia, France, Germany, Switzerland, Panama, Spain and Norway. Back in 2004 he started the publishing / printing benchmarking operations within SCHICKLER, which over the years became an internationally renowned unique asset for the specialised consultancy. As of today, SCHICKLER´s benchmarking database covers in detail efficiency and quality KPIs over all parts of the publishing / printing value chain, including data of over a hundred of international publishing companies. In the meantime he became an internationally renowned expert for efficiency, quality and strategic issues in this industry.