Commobile Consulting was founded in spring 2011 by Peter Kohlschmidt.
Headquartered in the heart of Bavaria/ Germany, Commobile Consulting offers services in the areas of general management and change management. Assignments are typically on interims management or on consultation basis.
Preferred business areas are: automotive electronics, communication technologies, machine to machine (m2m, iIoT) communication, industrial automation and Distributed Ledger Technologies.
Peter Kohlschmidt enjoys more than 20 years of hands on business experience in the above areas. He successfully restructured and realigned Funkwerk AG´s automotive business as CEO of the BU Automotive and has planned and set-up the European headquarters for an Asian company with Commobile Consulting. He run this activity as Managing Director in an interims management assignment. In his job as Managing Director of TechniSat and CEO of TechniSats´s automotive business (sold to Preh/Joyson in April 2016) he turned an already critical project into success, build up the organization to master the international challenges of the business and doubled revenue with healthy net profit within 3 years.
Before founding Commobile Consulting he was the Managing Director and Chief Technology Officer of Cinterion Wireless Modules.
He worked for Audi AG and BMW AG as an Engineering Director until 2010. At Audi, Mr. Kohlschmidt was responsible for the development of car infotainment systems with focus on acoustics, sound systems, connectivity, online services, speech processing and telephony. At BMW he was in charge for all head-unit (central computer) design and development.
Prior, he served in various management and engineering positions for example at Philips, AT&T Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies Semiconductor group. He worked on the very first digital mobile phones, was active in the standardization process of GSM and was responsible for the development of GSM/ UMTS chipset solutions including RF, Baseband, Firmware and Layer1 being sold in multiple million units.
The founder’s business philosophy is to specify, develop and deploy leading edge solutions. Not only that they should be technically superior, they also have to significantly contribute to the business result of the operation. In References some feedback to his success can be found.
In his mid-forties, Peter Kohlschmidt has begun to enjoy marathon running. With now more than 100 finished races including ultra-distances and steep mountain trail events, he sees this activity as an ideal balance to the day to day job business but also to train himself to master challenges, to stay target focused, to become creative in finding the right path and rhythm of movement by using all available capabilities/ resources and last but not least to enjoy success.