Matthias Kempf

Matthias Kempf, currently Senior Director HR Emerging Markets at adidas Group based in Dubai/UAE, started his career as HR Manager in 1988 for a Mail order and later then Retail company. Until 2001 he worked as Head of Human Resources for an international Automotive Supplier, before he took over the HR responsibility within an Energy Corporation. In 2005 he joined the adidas Group, first as the Head of Human Resources for Global IT, before he moved in 2006 to the US as the Director Group Development & Training Americas. He returned in 2010 to the Headquarter as Director HR CoE Talent EMEA to be responsible for People Development, Talent Management and Recruiting in HQ and the EMEA markets. He has practical experience as a Coach, Mentor and Mediator, is Graduate of the Human Resource Executive Program at University of Michigan/Stephen M. Ross School of Business, also an instructor, author and facilitator of different lectures, articles and workshops in the US and Germany mainly for intercultural and leadership topics.