Professional focus
Professional experience
Currently
Non-executive Board Member (Non-executive Director), among others
- Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG (2015-2020)
- ATS Automation (since Oct. 2017)
Adjunct Professor at INSEAD (MBA program)
Previously
CEO Fritsch Bäckereimaschinen AG
- Mid-sized German machinery company (130 Mio. € sales, 600 employees)
Executive Vice President and Member of the Board of Management with Voith Hydro Holding & Co. KG
- One of four divisions of Voith, one of the largest German family-owned companies
- ~ 1.5 bn € of sales, ~ 5000 employees
- Responsible for New Digital Business, After Market-Business, Automation and Technical Product Management
22 years of strategy consulting with The Boston Consulting Group
- Partner and Managing Director since 2000
- Global sector leader Pulp&Paper
- Member of the worldwide Industrial Goods leadership team
- Co-responsibility for BCG's European Women's Initiative
- Regular, highly-rated speaker at pulp&paper industry conferences
Core competencies
- Growth and new digital business models
- Strategy development (served more than 100 clients in industrial goods, consumer goods/retail, media and technology sectors)
- Operations (deep experience in operations of leading professional services firm, particularly recruiting, retention, career development)
- Inter-cultural skills (lived/worked several years in USA; France, China; multi-month project assignments in Russia, China, Brazil, Thailand, Israel)
Educational background
- MBA, INSEAD
- Diploma in Journalism, Ludwig-Maximilans-University, Munich