BVL Mentoring Program
The BVL Mentoring Program came about through the initiative of our young members and started in summer 2018. BVL members and honorary volunteers - some of whom have years of professional experience in various positions and companies - are available as mentors for the up and coming generation. The program is aimed at BVL student and young professional (below 35 years of age) members. Students and young professionals can use the mentoring to exchange ideas with professionals from the BVL network about their experiences and plans. The program lasts for a total of 12 months and the meetings are agreed upon between the mentor and the mentee.
If you are interested in linking up with a mentor, please first fill out the application form (
students.docx or young professionals.docx) and then contact the BVL Member Service team. We will then process your application and establish contact with the mentor for you.
Overview Mentors
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Lars started his career in 1980 as an apprentice in the largest Automotive Plant worldwide in Wolfsburg, Germany, where he was also born and raised. Later he studied Technical Engineering there and as well Business Administration in Braunschweig. Finally he postgraduated in 2015 with an International Management Diploma in St. Gallen, Switzerland and Boston, Massachusetts, USA. After getting working experiences in Manufacturing, Logistics, Technical Development and IT at Volkswagen, his first foreign Assignment took him to Puebla, Mexico in 1996 where he was responsible for Organization of Business Processes, Structures and the complete IT Contracting of the Company. In 2000 he moved back to Wolfsburg as Manager for the global Production Control System, from where he was called 2 years later to assume responsibility as Director IT and Processmanagement (CIO) at the huge Volkswagen Operations in Bratislava, Slovakia. Getting back to Headquarters in 2006 he assumed several responsibilities in corporate Group functions like the Global Director of Packaging- and Containermanagement and later Director of IT Production and Logistics worldwide. Lars is a long time member of BVL, where he served 10 years as Committee Member for public funded, scientific Logistics Projects. In 2021 he was appointed as the Vice Chairperson of BVL Chapter Shanghai.
Nico is an Industrial Engineer with more than 17 years of comprehensive international logistics and supply chain management expertise in retail, consumer goods, manufacturing, and healthcare industries. Nico is the Chief Supply Chain Officer of the Pet Valu, with oversight of the Company’s omni-channel supply chain operations and procurement. Prior to joining Pet Valu in June 2022, he held multiple senior positions at the Hudson’s Bay Company from 2016 to 2022, and most recently served as Senior Vice President, Supply Chain & Logistics. Prior to that, Nico held senior positions at the CHRIST Jeweler and Watchmaker, a division of Douglas Holding and Arvato Supply Chain Solutions in Germany. Nico volunteers as the Representative Canada for BVL and as Career Coach and Mentor for MBA students at the University of Toronto - Rotman School of Management and serves on the Rotman Operations Management Association’s advisory board.