At their regular meeting in Berlin, Roland Berger’s international partnership elected nine new Partners in Germany, the Netherlands and Japan. Five Partners in Germany, France and Switzerland were promoted to Senior Partner level.
“Since the beginning of this year we have appointed 23 new Partners, four of them returning alumni. We have also hired some 350 consultants in the last six months,” said Charles-Edouard Bouée, CEO of Roland Berger. “We are delighted to have this many new colleagues on board because we are always looking for fresh ideas. And we are especially happy to see people join us again after having spent some time outside the firm. It demonstrates that we are on the right track.” He added that the firm is on a growth trajectory all round, business performance having been very positive in recent months.
New Roland Berger Partners
Carsten Bock is a Partner in Roland Berger’s Operations Strategy Competence Center. He primarily advises clients in the automotive industry, the engineered products and high-tech sector and the consumer goods business. The scope of his consultancy work focuses on IPE (innovation, product optimization and efficient development) alongside production and supply chain management. Clients benefit from his comprehensive industry and consulting expertise mainly in projects to optimize operating processes and in extensive corporate transformations. Prior to joining Roland Berger, Carsten Bock worked as a development engineer for a leading automotive OEM. It was during this period that he earned a Ph.D. with a doctoral thesis on the use of formal specifications in product development processes.
Alexander Brenner joined Roland Berger in 2005 and is now a Partner in the Automotive Competence Center at the Hamburg office. He advises automotive clients, predominantly passenger and commercial vehicle manufacturers, on strategies for aftersales and financial services. He also focuses on projects in the non-captive market, including work for independent players like spare parts wholesalers. Alexander Brenner studied Ingeniería Comercial at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile in the city of Santiago, which he followed up with International Business Administration at the University of Texas in Austin.
David Frans is a Partner at Roland Berger’s Amsterdam office. Since joining the company in 2005, his focus has been on the energy sector. He supports companies and organizations in change and investment projects. He also specializes in managing megaprojects, mostly in infrastructure and capital-intensive industries. David enjoys guiding extremely complex assignments, projects which often involve numerous stakeholders. He holds a Master of Science degree in Business Administration from the Erasmus University, Rotterdam. He spent three years working as a researcher, focusing on international strategies at multinationals.
Masayuki Igarashi is now a Partner at Roland Berger’s Tokyo office. He joined the consultancy in 2013 focusing on projects with Japanese trading companies, industrial machinery manufacturers and engineering firms. He has built up expertise in a broad range of areas including business and marketing strategy, new business development and business due diligence. Prior to joining Roland Berger, he worked for two consulting firms and a major Japanese trading company. Masayuki Igarashi holds a Bachelor’s degree in Engineering from Waseda University and a Master’s degree in Business Administration from Keio University.
Hitoshi Kaise rejoined Roland Berger in 2007 and is now a Partner based in the Tokyo office. An expert in the automotive industry, his project experience spans various areas, ranging from R&D strategies and M&A support to management and marketing strategies. After completing his graduate studies in mechanical engineering at Yokohama National University, Hitoshi Kaise worked for a major automobile manufacturer prior to joining Roland Berger for the first time. He left the company to work as an in-house consultant focusing on business innovation at a major technology company and subsequently for a venture incubator.
Peter Magunia is a Partner in the Restructuring & Corporate Finance Competence Center at Roland Berger’s office in Stuttgart. The focus of his consulting practice lies on the life sciences and healthcare. He began advising hospitals and pharmaceutical companies along with medical devices firms in 2010. Clients benefit from his support on transformation and restructuring projects and in strategy development. Prior to joining Roland Berger, Peter Magunia studied Human Medicine at the University of Tübingen, which is also where he earned his Ph.D. in 2009. He then practiced as a doctor in the field of anesthesia and intensive care at a hospital in southern Germany.
Sebastian Steger has worked for Roland Berger since 2006 and is now a Partner in the Financial Services Competence Center in Berlin. An expert in digitization, he supports clients in developing digital business models and digitizing their products and processes, and assists them with the associated transformation measures. The focus of his consulting practice lies on retail and corporate banking and the development bank market. He worked for several international banks before joining Roland Berger. Sebastian Steger studied Business Administration at the Berlin School of Economics and Law and at the European University Viadrina in Frankfurt (Oder).
Wilhelm Uffelmann is a Partner in the Consumer Goods & Retail Competence Center in the Munich office, where he has been advising clients in agribusiness and the food industry since 2010. The focus of his consulting activities lies not only on corporate strategy and market entry and sales strategies, but also on procurement, supply chain management, due diligence and restructuring. Wilhelm Uffelmann studied Agricultural Economics at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg and earned a Ph.D. in Business Administration from TUM in Munich.
Thilo Zelt is a Partner in the Civil Economics, Energy & Infrastructure Competence Center in Berlin. An expert in strategy development, reform and transformation topics, digitization and renewable energies, he advises clients in the public sector as well as the infrastructure and energy sectors. Thilo Zelt began his career with Roland Berger in 2004 and then spent a number of years working as a manager and entrepreneur in the field of renewable energies before rejoining the firm in 2014. He studied Management, Economics and Literature at the Humboldt University of Berlin, LMU Munich, the University of California, Irvine, and the University of Lausanne.
Partners promoted to Senior Partner
Sébastien Amichi joined Roland Berger in 2007 and has been a Partner in the Automotive and Operations Strategy Competence Centers in Paris since 2011. He has 19 years of experience in strategy consulting and focuses on strategy, organization and performance improvement. His assignments include product and technology strategy, engineering organization and efficiency, sales & marketing, due diligence projects as well as purchasing programs and advanced levers. In addition, he has taught at prestigious business schools such as ESSEC and HEC in Paris. Before joining Roland Berger he worked for a leading global strategy consultancy. Sébastien Amichi holds a degree from the Sorbonne in Paris and an MBA from Warwick University (UK).
Philipp Angehrn has been a Partner in the Financial Services Competence Center since 2012, where he is responsible for the Swiss business. Prior to joining Roland Berger he spent seven years with a leading international consultancy and five years working for a Swiss private equity boutique. As Managing Partner Switzerland, Philipp Angehrn advises clients from a wide cross-section of industries including financial services, private equity and the healthcare sector, mainly focusing on strategy and restructuring projects. Philipp Angehrn studied Business Administration at the University of St. Gallen (Switzerland) and Cornell University in Ithaca, New York.
Anne Bioulac has been a Partner at Roland Berger’s Paris office since 2012. She worked for a leading management consulting firm before joining Roland Berger in 2006. In her 21-year career, she has focused on telecommunications, media and technology players. For the past two years, Anne has been dedicated to developing Roland Berger’s digital offering across industries to support her clients’ digital transformation as well as new business model development. Anne is one of the champions of Roland Berger’s Terra Numerata™ platform, aiming at gathering the best of digital capabilities. She graduated from Telecom ParisTech, a telecom engineering school, in Paris.
Didier Bréchemier started working for Roland Berger in 2005 and has been a Partner leading the Transportation Competence Center in Paris since 2012, where he also co-leads the consultancy’s global aviation business. Didier Bréchemier has broad experience in consulting for international airports and airlines, focusing on strategy and restructuring for incumbent, low-cost and charter carriers. In addition to his extensive knowledge from rail, logistics, mass transport and private equity projects for transportation players, his expertise also extends to capacity optimization, new “low cost” offers, maintenance, crews and ground handling. Didier Bréchemier is a graduate of the ESTACA Aeronautical Engineering School. He holds an MBA, a Master’s degree in Auditing and Financial Controlling and a Master’s in Organization from IAE Pantheon Sorbonne in Paris.
Fabian Engels is a Partner in the Restructuring & Corporate Finance Competence Center in Berlin, a position he has held since 2014. Having joined Roland Berger in 2006, he has worked across Europe and the Middle East, advising numerous clients on strategy development, post-merger integration (PMI), global transformation and restructuring projects. Fabian Engels is an international expert in the transportation sector – primarily for shipping and shipbuilding. He also has thorough knowledge in the real estate and private equity sectors. Fabian Engels studied Business Administration at the Freie Universität Berlin and the University of Gothenburg, before completing his Ph.D. at the Leuphana University Lüneburg.
