Senior Experts team

Marcel Altherr is an expert in change management projects in the IT sector, for digital strategies, complex and innovative software projects and for management of large IT project portfolios. His work is coined by the image of bridge-building between technology and general management helping to achieve strategic company objectives in a direct and sustainable way. Marcel Altherr supports companies from developing innovative ideas up to their realization, he assumes leadership for turnarounds of IT projects and follows companies in their implementation of agile methods , structures and modern innovation processes. He supports companies by heading strategic IT projects, acts as interim manager in IT organizations or as a coach and group leader of workshops. He speaks German and English.

Robert has an extensive track record in leading restructuring & Change Management projects. He is highly experienced in Optimized Resource Alignment & Process Improvement well as in Strategic and Operational Leadership. Robert supports companies in their Strategy Development, Implementation and Transformation challenges and has led many projects in High-Performance Teams Development.

Christoph Biedermann specialises in sustainable value enhancement projects for small and medium-sized businesses and groups for which he develops innovative strategies and pragmatic solution approaches as the basis for operational excellence. In this, he focusses on the entire value added chain. Delivery and results are important to him. He is an expert in change management and internationalisation and also a specialist in succession management. Furthermore, he is willing to roll up his shirt sleeves and apply his many years of experience in industry and leadership in the service of a short-term commitment. He speaks German and English.

Carsten Bremer is a pragmatic general manager with an international track record of building, leading and transforming industrial business units and an entrepreneurial engineer with proven successes of increasing industrial performance. He speaks German, English as well as French and is an innovative leader who initiates and leads changes in an international environment.

Sebastian has an extensive track record of 15+ years professional experience in top strategy consulting and operations line management. He is highly experienced in managing digital transformation programs and defining corporate strategies. An additional field of expertise is data analytics as well as definition and implementation of AI models. In his position as COO for ERG Africa, Sebastian was responsible for mining & processing operations including responsibility for multiple turnaround and transformation programs.

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Patrick has a strong expertise in Operational turnarounds and task forces, global transformation programs and new product launch and industrialization. He lead many projects in operational excellence and lean manufacturing and helped companies in their productivity improvement and cost reduction challenges. His expertise covers also supply strategy and footprint design and supply chain planning and Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP).

Daniel Frutig is an expert for international business development, transformations, cost reductions, carve-outs and spin-offs. Leadership, corporate governance and people development are his core competencies striving to increase corporate value, creating and securing industrial jobs. He speaks German, English and French.

Axel Gerock is an expert in restructuring (Strategic New Orientation, Turn-around, Business Fix etc.) as well as in change management in the areas of quality (reorganization, new alignment), nationally and internationally, as well as in conception and implementation. As an educated generalist he takes on Interim Management responsibilities in companies (business management and general management). He is fluent in German, English, French and Italian and has conversational skills in Spanish and Dutch.

Christoph Hendrickx  is a CFO allrounder with a strong expertise in M&A, post merger integration and turnarounds. He has a solid track record in managing portfolio companies directly via board.

He is a member of a start-up team of a PE company with now eight portfolio companies.
Since 2019, he has been working on consulting projects: strategy, m&a, business expansion, Co-Director of a boarding school

Nicole Knuchel has a broad experience in the management and implementation of strategy, process design and service design projects. In addition, as an expert in human centered design in the field of organisational development and transformation, she has successfully supported numerous projects for well-known Swiss companies.

Her management experience in both line functions and project-based environments makes her a strong implementer who always focusses on results. She speaks German, English, French and Italian

Urs Lampe has a solid expertise in strategy development and transformation, in management of product & service offering and innovation as well as in business & ecosystem expansion and performance optimization. He further specializes in M&A and Venture Capital end-to-end from portfolio management, M&A strategy, pipeline, transactions to poster-merger integration. Urs speaks German, English as well as French, Spanish and Italian.

Dominik Marti has an extensive and broad experience in the elaboration of strategies as well as the design of organisations and processes. He has led several projects with the top management of big Swiss companies, especially in business restructuring, creation of new business units or process improvement. Apart from his experiences in consultancy he has management experiences as CEO. He speaks German, English and French.

Markus Meili is expert for strategic marketing and sales as well as innovation management with the focus on profitable growth. In his career he successfully managed very difficult turn around situations. He is a solution oriented coach and motivator with very strong skills in negotiations. With his empathy and his social competences he is a very competent mediator resolving complex conflicts. He supports shareholders & management in mastering change and orchestrates succession planning in family enterprises. As an interim manager he takes over the responsibility for turn around and /or strategical new orientation of companies.

Fridolin Michel has expertise in optimizing financial reporting, incorporation of business processes in accounting and introduction of internal control systems. He has hands-on experience in the integration of acquired organizations and in the implementation of expansion strategies, both by organic internal growth and external acquisition. He speaks German, English and French.

Karin Peter is an expert in elaboration and implementation of internationalization and business development strategies. She accompanies projects with operational leadership skills and cross-cultural competence to success by putting strategies alive. She disposes of an extensive and detailed know-how of all relevant communication and sales channels in the focus field of Retail and E-Commerce. You can rely on her strength of an all-embracing view and synergetic combination of all touching points in the management of client relationships CRM. She speaks German, English, French, Italian, Spanish and Russian.

Frank has an extensive track record of 25+ years professional experience in top strategy consulting and operational line management. His core competencies are definition of corporate strategies, supply chain management and operational improvement programs. During his professional career at Airbus Group, he held various VP positions in Business Operations, Customer Support, Quality, Supply Chain Management and Sales.

EXPERIENCE

Dr. Alexander Strunck serves as Consultant & Advisor for Strategy, Operational Improvement, Organizational & Process Development, Growth Strategy as well as Restructuring engagements. He supports and coaches Offer Management Strategies, customer-led Category-Management Initiatives and Partner-Management Programs. He is a native German speaker, professionally fluent in English und colloquial in French.

• R&D and innovation management: R&D processes and efficiency improvement, R&D organization and outsourcing, modularization of product architectures and complexity reduction
• Operational improvement: Design-to-cost and value engineering, purchasing and supply chain, lean manufacturing, process optimization
• Restructuring and turnaround management: Fix cost reduction and restructuring controlling
• Strategy/M&A: Due diligence for Private Equity companies, Business Unit strategy
• Languages: German, English and French

Markus A. Zoller is an expert in strategic transformations, mergers & acquisitions, business and product development, as well as crisis management, restructurings, turnarounds, profitability increases and related change management. He knows how to lead complex international organizations, is dynamic, performance-oriented and combines conceptual strength with pragmatism and entrepreneurial decisiveness. As a consultant, coach and interim manager, he quickly recognizes problems and opportunities and consistently implements his holistic solution concepts. He speaks German, English and French.