Hanns-Robert Mayer founded Kontaktwerk GmbH in 2005 and is its Managing Director. Kontaktwerk establishes sustainable connections to suitable partners from industry and services for medium-sized manufacturing companies from Baden-Württemberg.

In recent years, he has built up a network of over 150 cooperation partners with whom tasks are solved. These include manufacturing companies, suppliers from the Baden-Württemberg region, technical service providers, many foreign partners, as well as various partners for personnel issues, consulting, etc. Kontaktwerk has been organizing regular events for SMEs for years.

In addition to a regular Asia get-together for business people (Tai Chi Teatime), there are also exchanges of experience for the upper management of production companies in the Stuttgart region.

Prior to this, Mr. Mayer was the regional managing director of a business association for small and medium-sized companies in the Stuttgart region for 10 years. His successful industrial career before that, which he spent with various mechanical engineering companies, also took him to Asia for 2 years in the 1980s, spending about 1 year each in Japan and Singapore.