Foreign Trade Agency
Services and consulting for foreign trade

Our Team


Sven-Boris Brunner

Managing partner and founder of Exportwirtschaft ICS

The focus of his work is on international foreign trade consulting and services for industry and commerce. Mr. Brunner has over 25 years of experience as a consultant in the international trade of goods and supports industrial customers with difficult questions regarding compliance with import and export regulations, as well as many years of leadership and management responsibility with a regional focus on Northern, Southern and Eastern Europe, Asia alike in the Middle East and North America.

Before founding Exportwirtschaft ICS in 2017, Mr. Brunner was managing partner and founder of REF Europe GmbH, a consulting company belonging to the Swiss TransInvest Group, from 2015.

Until March 2016, Mr. Brunner was Managing Director of M & M Militzer & Münch GmbH, responsible for the German business, and was a Member of the Group Management of M & M Militzer & Münch International Holding St. Gallen, which also belongs to the Swiss TransInvest Group.

Before joining the Militzer & Münch Group in 2012, Mr. Brunner was a member of the management of Hellmann East Europe GmbH & Co. KG.

Sven Boris Brunner lives in Frankfurt am Main and shares his knowledge as an expert and speaker at customer events, congresses, events, conferences and seminars. Mr. Brunner is also the author of specialist books and articles, as well as the "Foreign Trade Compass". You can find the latest book projects on our homepage under Publications.


Steffen Hondrich

Senior Consultant and Procurator at the Exportwirtschaft ICS

Steffen Hondrich is a state-certified commercial specialist with experience as a foreign trade merchant in the field of export and logistics since 2007.

He has extensive experience in the coordination of export transactions, the preparation of export documents, the management of customs matters and the organization of transports.

In addition, Mr. Hondrich has acted as an official custom representative for over 10 years and was responsible for implementing customs procedures, monitoring imports and exports and ensuring compliance with customs regulations.

In his last foreign trade audit, he passed without any objections and in the last review of inward processing, there were no objections from the monitoring systems and licensing authorities under customs and export law.

His experience in the export industry and customs sector enables him to support companies in optimizing their export processes and costs and to navigate them through the complex regulatory framework of foreign trade.