Reinhard Voelkel · Co-Founder & CEO
Reinhard Voelkel
Reinhard Voelkel didn’t learn succession from a book. He lived it. In 2002 he founded SUSS MicroOptics in Neuchâtel and led it for over twenty years, growing it into a global supplier of precision micro-optics. In January 2024 the company was acquired by Focuslight Technologies.
A physicist by training (PhD, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg), SPIE Fellow, OPTICA Senior Member and Swiss Manufacturing Award laureate. Today he advises on industrial mergers and acquisitions and works with owners preparing, as he once did, their company’s transition.
Building for two decades, then handing over: that is exactly the experience he now brings to the owners he works with.
Track record & recognition
Why TransActum
A company almost never stumbles over its product. It stumbles over how ready it is to hand over.
Having been through the sale of his own company, then advising on other owners’ deals, Reinhard kept seeing the same thing: what makes a transition fail is rarely the product or the market. It’s what the owner never made legible in time.
He is wary of the word “consulting”. What he does is explain the rules of the game: helping each owner see which rules they play by, where they want to go, and what they are actually building. Once those are clear, the company becomes transferable.
TransActum grew out of that conviction, matured over years. Reinhard is now opening this work to a small number of owners.
What we do
Succession advice is usually split across lawyers, fiduciaries and brokers, each owning a fragment, none owning the outcome. We act as one neutral owner of the transition, so diagnosis, plan and execution stay connected. The method is TEOS.
How TEOS worksBased in Switzerland, working worldwide
TransActum SA is registered in Zug, Switzerland (CHE-291.795.185) and works in English, German and French. The Swiss base means discretion and a strict standard of data protection. The mandate is worldwide.
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