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