Andreas Kaepplein serves as the Vice President of the LBS Growth Practice at Lean Focus, focusing on building high-performance cultures for sustained growth since June 2024. Concurrently, Kaepplein is pursuing an Executive MBA at Mannheim Business School and has been the Managing Director of kaepplein-consulting.com, specializing in interim management and consulting within the Diagnostic sector. Prior to these roles, Kaepplein was the Managing Director and Vice President of Commercial Operations for EMEA at Epredia, overseeing multiple legal entities and achieving significant market growth through strategic transformations. Kaepplein's career includes significant positions at Thermo Fisher Scientific and Leica Microsystems, where leadership in commercial operations, marketing, and sales drove successful product launches and market expansion. Kaepplein holds a Dipl.-Ing. in Sensor Systems Technology from Karlsruhe University of Applied Sciences.