Global Practice Leaders

Lionel is a senior partner in the Paris office, and he has been with BCG since 1991. Lionel leads the firm's Financial Institutions practice. His experience within BCG includes extensive work with banks in France, Italy, and Spain on all areas of their operations, as well as projects in the high-tech, consumer, industrial goods, and health care sectors.  Lionel is particularly experienced in working with financial institutions on postmerger integration, strategic planning, risk assessment, and process redesign.

His work with retail banks over the years has included projects focusing on distribution efficiency improvement, client segmentation, sales force organization and effectiveness, multichannel strategy, and direct-banking strategy.  Lionel has also worked on numerous cases as a member of the Insurance and Marketing and Sales practices.

Before BCG, Lionel worked for France Telecom Research Center as a research engineer. He holds degrees from Ecole Normale Supérieure and Collège des Ingénieurs.

Michael is a senior partner in the Atlanta office and is the global leader of BCG’s Strategy practice. From 2000 to 2005, he led BCG’s Travel and Tourism practice.

As head of the Strategy practice, Michael has responsibility for guiding the firm’s considerable investment agenda and training curriculum related to strategy. He has significant experience with classic topics like delivering business unit competitive advantage, driving growth agendas, and clarifying strategies in environments of complexity and uncertainty.He also oversees research on the emerging frontiers of strategy, including intellectual property strategies, Web 2.0, and collaboration.

Michael is the coauthor of numerous BCG publications, and in 2005, he was the coeditor of The Boston Consulting Group on Strategy, a book of BCG’s best thinking on management and strategy issues.

Prior to joining the firm, Michael was a consultant with The Wharton Center, a strategy consulting firm affiliated with The Wharton School. He holds an M.B.A. from The Wharton School and a B.A. with highest distinction from the University of North Carolina where he was a Morehead Scholar.

Andrew is a senior partner in the Sydney office. He has been with BCG since 1994 and has led the global Organization practice since late 2006.  Andrew is also a member of the Asia-Pacific leadership team and the firm's Executive Committee. He previously led the firm’s Australian Financial Institutions practice and has played a variety of local office roles.

During his time at BCG, Andrew has been heavily involved in developing the firm’s research on building accountable, engaged, and effective organizations and ensuring that this research has broad application across client work. He has also helped lead the firm’s research on successful wealth-management businesses.

Andrew has led a number of multiyear change programs for large service companies as well as engagements relating to strategy, business development, and growth.

Before joining BCG, Andrew worked for the Commonwealth Bank of Australia, and for the Australian Government in a Commonwealth agency.

Andrew holds an M.B.A. from IMD in Switzerland, an M.Comm. (finance) from the University of NSW, and a Bachelor of Economics (Honors) from the Australian National University.

Mark is a senior partner in the Paris office, and he has been with BCG since 1990. In addition to his role as global leader of the Industrial Goods practice, he is a member of BCG's Operations, Energy, Corporate Development, and Global Advantage practices. Over the years, his work experience has focused on issues such as strategy formulation and process improvement and redesign, mainly in the industrial goods and energy and utilities sectors.

Prior to joining BCG, Mark worked with the International Finance Corporation and in venture capital with PRVF. He has also worked in international economic development as a director with Save the Children.

Mark holds an MBA with high distinction from Harvard Business School, as well as a bachelor of arts degree and a master of international affairs degree from Columbia University.

Knut is a partner in the Oslo office and the global leader of BCG’s Sustainability practice. He started working at BCG in 2000 and is also a member of the Telecommunications, Media, and Technology practice and the Strategy practice.

Through his client work at BCG, he has accumulated extensive experience in a number of industries, including financial services, petroleum, consumer goods and retailing, technology, and telecommunications.

Knut has a master’s degree in economics from the Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration (NHH) and a PhD in strategy from Copenhagen Business School. He was also a postdoctorate/visiting scholar at Stanford University.

Knut previously worked as executive director of The Research Council of Norway, heading the innovation division. He was also an associate professor at the Norwegian School of Management BI and a research associate at IMD in Switzerland.

Larry is a senior partner in our Melbourne office and is the founder and global leader of BCG’s Public Sector practice. He previously led the firm's Public Sector and Health Care practice in Australia and New Zealand.

Larry has extensive public sector experience across a wide range of government agencies—including work in education, justice, health and welfare, energy, and sustainability.

Larry is known for leading work that generates tangible impact in complex, sensitive stakeholder settings. Selected examples of his project experience include developing an operating model for a large state police system; optimizing welfare distribution services; energy deregulation and privatization of state-owned energy assets; helping to define the Australian government’s strategy for a national solar energy program; and developing a work force strategy for a large state public education system.

Since joining BCG in 1989, Larry has also worked in the manufacturing, health care, retail, food processing, and mining industries on strategy development and organizational redesign projects. He spent two years in BCG’s Boston office.

Prior to joining BCG, Larry spent five years working for the Federal and Victorian Treasury Departments.

Larry holds a bachelor’s degree economics from the London School of Economics and a master’s degree in economics with first class honors from the University of Melbourne.

Ludger Kuebel-Sorger is a senior partner in BCG's Frankfurt office and is the global leader of BCG’s Knowledge practice. From 2002 to 2006, he led BCG’s German and Austrian Banking practices.
 
As leader of the Knowledge practice, Ludger has responsibility for guiding the firm’s significant investments in the development of new knowledge, expertise, and capabilities.  Along with the leaders of BCG’s Industry and Functional practices, Ludger oversees BCG’s global Knowledge Team.

In client service, he has taken a special interest in knowledge-intensive banking sectors such as capital markets, asset management, and wealth management, and topics such as sales, marketing, and innovation.  Many of his clients are leading international financial institutions.
 
Before joining BCG, Ludger worked for B. Metzler seel. Sohn & Co., the German investment bank and securities company. Ludger studied Economics and Business Administration at the University of Cologne and at the École des Hautes Études Commerciales in Paris.

Heiner is a senior partner in the Cologne office. In addition to his role in the firm’s Insurance practice, he is a member of the Health Care practice. Since joining BCG in 1992, Heiner has led numerous strategy, process reengineering, and organizational effectiveness projects as well as some large PMI cases. His clients include global leaders in the primary insurance and in the reinsurance business.

Before joining BCG, Heiner completed an apprenticeship with Sal. Oppenheim jr. & Cie and was a trainee with Kaufhof Holding. He studied business administration at Cologne University and is a Diplom-Kaufmann.

Joe is a senior partner in our Toronto office and leads the firm's Operations practice. He has been with BCG since 1998. He led BCG’s Canadian operations until the end of 2009.

Over the course of his consulting career, Joe’s client work has focused primarily on service and manufacturing companies in the consumer goods, retail, and technology sectors, and he has also worked in health care and industrial goods. Most of the projects he has led have been in the classic operations areas of innovation, product development, manufacturing, procurement, and customer service.

Joe has also been a member of the Client Team (formerly the Client Service Initiative) since its inception in 2003, helping the firm focus on measuring and communicating the value we have been able to create for our clients. 

Prior to BCG, Joe was a senior manager at IBM Canada (now Celestica). During his ten years there, he held a number of operational and marketing management positions within the manufacturing organization. He was a Six Sigma expert in the late 1980s—several years before GE made Six Sigma mainstream. He also worked at Bain & Co. for three years as a consultant and manager.

Joe holds a master’s degree in manufacturing systems from Stanford University and a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Toronto.

Sharon is a senior partner in the Washington office. She joined BCG in 1993 and currently leads BCG’s Consumer practice.

In addition to being named one of the "Top 25 Consultants" by Consulting magazine in 2007, Sharon received a special award for client service at the magazine's first annual Achievement Awards honoring women leaders in consulting. She lead BCG’s Women's Initiative in the Americas from 2004 - 2011.

Sharon earned her MBA from the Harvard University Graduate School of Business Administration, where she graduated with distinction.  She earned her BA in economics, magna cum laude, with high honors in her major, from Duke University. Prior to joining BCG, she worked for Goldman Sachs & Co. in the mergers and acquisitions department.

Ivan joined BCG in 1987 and is a senior partner in the Madrid office. He is the global leader of firm's Energy practice and is also an active member of the Industrial Goods and Organization practices. He previously served as worldwide topic leader for talent advantage in the Organization practice.

Ivan is an expert in helping CEOs transform their companies by defining the change agenda and assisting in the transformation. He has worked with numerous companies in the power, gas, oil, and sustainable development sectors, and with industrial goods clients in related industries to develop their strategic visions and support the implementation. He has also advised governments and regulators in different countries on issues related to energy regulation and sustainable development.

Ivan sits on the advisory boards of several foundations, companies, and educational institutions. He is a frequent speaker on organizational and energy issues and has authored a book on strategic planning as well as numerous articles on organization topics. He has a PhD summa cum laude in business administration from Universidad Autónoma de Madrid.

David is a senior partner in our Beijing office and the managing partner of BCG’s Greater China practice. He is the also the leader of BCG’s Operations practice in the Asia-Pacific region, in addition to leading the firm's Globalization practice.

David has been with BCG since 1992, when he joined our Shanghai office, and he has extensive experience working with multinational corporations and local Chinese companies on a wide range of operational, strategic, and organizational issues. His client experience includes work with oil refiners, airlines, industrial goods manufacturers, electronics companies, and telecommunications providers.

He is a coauthor of our groundbreaking Global Challengers report series and also the principal author of a Harvard-sponsored study titled “Building Asian Telecom Competitiveness.” Additionally, David is coauthor of the book Asia’s Digital Dividends, which was published in 2000.

David holds a BA in economics, magna cum laude, from Harvard University and an MBA from Stanford University, where he was awarded the Ernest W. Arbuckle Award.  He was also a Rotary Scholar at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

Ron serves as global leader of the practice areas, leader of the Technology, Media, and Telecommunications practice, and is a member of the Executive Committee. He works out of the Dallas office, which he opened in 1994. Over the last 22 years, he has also served as the global leader of the Organization practice and chairman of North and South America.

Since joining BCG in 1987, Ron's focus has been telecommunications and airlines, and he has worked on major business transformations with a number of FORTUNE 50 companies. Before coming to BCG, Ron held senior positions with Babcock and Wilcox and was a United States naval officer, serving aboard a nuclear ballistic missile submarine and teaching nuclear engineering.

Ron received a BS in physics with honors from the United States Naval Academy, where he was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor Society Prize for outstanding engineering work. He also has an MBA from Duke University, where he was named a Fuqua Scholar.

Tom is a senior partner and managing director in BCG's New York office. He leads BCG’s global Information Technology practice. 

Tom works with clients to transform their businesses and their IT functions to gain competitive advantage.
His client work at BCG spans a wide range of topics. These include program managing the development and rollout of a global risk-management business for a leading European bank; developing a processing model across all lines of business, customer segments, and locations for two North American banks; and leading BCG’s IT work with a major Australian financial services company.

Tom's work experience prior to joining BCG includes positions as acting CIO of Bankers Trust Australia/New Zealand and relationship manager with private clients and small and mid-size companies with Dresdner Bank.

Tom holds an MBA from Indiana University and a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Bayreuth, Germany.

David is a senior partner in our London office and former leader of the global Financial Institutions practice. He currently serves as Chairman of Global Practices.

Since joining BCG in 1985, David has worked with financial services clients all over the world on projects involving major strategy and organizational change. Although his main focus is supporting senior management on questions of overall portfolio and governance, David continues to devote as much time as possible to working in the retail end of the business.

David is also a coauthor of BCG's popular Collateral Damage content series, which advises senior executives on how to protect companies from the worst of the economic downturn—and prepare them for the economy's recovery.

David is an associate of the Institute of Chartered Accountants and previously worked for Arthur Andersen. He received his bachelor’s degree in jurisprudence from University College, Oxford, and his M.B.A. from Harvard Business School.

Alexander Roos joined BCG in 1998 and is a partner and managing director in the Berlin office. In addition to his role as global leader of the Corporate Development practice, he is a member of BCG's Industrial Goods and Operations practices and leader of the firm's global M&A team.

Alexander's work includes supporting global portfolio and strategy reviews, developing and implementing acquisition strategies and divestiture programs, structuring and managing turnaround processes and performance improvements, and organizing investor-management and capital-market studies.

He has extensive experience working with global corporations, as well as for international private-equity investors and sovereign wealth funds, covering a wide range of industries, including industrial goods, health care, energy, and financial institutions.

Before joining BCG, Alexander held positions in consulting, financial advisory services, and corporate controlling in Europe and North America.

Alexander graduated with honors from the University of Stuttgart, receiving his degree in business administration with technical orientation. He earned his MBA from the University of Connecticut, where he received the Outstanding Finance MBA award.

Christoph is a partner in the New York office. He started with BCG in the Munich office in late 1997, and transferred to New York in late 2007. Before taking his current position as global leader of our Health Care practice, he was the leader of BCG's worldwide medical technologies sector.

Christoph has worked extensively in both medical equipment and medical devices, advising clients in areas such as diagnostic imaging, in-vitro diagnostics, dialysis, surgery, cardiovascular health, neurostimulation, and ophthalmology. He has also worked with specialized health care providers such as dialysis clinics and clinical labs.

Additionally, Christoph has deep experience in growth strategies and corporate development (including mergers and acquisitions and postmerger integration) in the medical technologies space, and he has helped numerous companies optimize their business processes.

Before joining BCG, Christoph was an intern with SAP, Robert Bosch, Freudenberg & Co., and Bayer. He received his master's degree in business administration at WHU Koblenz, and he earned his MBA from the University of Texas at Austin.

Miki is a senior partner in the Tokyo office and leader of the firm's Marketing and Sales practice. She has served as global leader of the PMI topic and was also head of the Consumer practice for the New York office. Since joining BCG in Japan in 1984, she has worked with a wide range of clients, primarily in the consumer goods sectors, including home and personal care, food and beverage, and fashion and luxury.

At BCG Miki has consulted on a wide array of client issues including growth, profit enhancement, transformation, and organization redesign. Since 2005, Miki has been the global leader of the Marketing and Sales practice, focusing on leading the firm's thinking on marketing, sales, pricing, and consumer insight across all industry sectors. In 2005 she was named one of the "Top 25 Consultants" by Consulting magazine.

Miki received her undergraduate degree in Government and East Asian studies from Harvard College (magna cum laude) and her graduate degree in business from Harvard Business School.

Wendy is a partner and managing director in BCG's Boston office. In addition to leading the firm's Social Impact practice, she is the topic leader of BCG's global health work, as well as a member of the Health Care practice.

In leading BCG’s social impact and global public health efforts, Wendy has built deep expertise in developing countries around the world, and she works extensively with foundations, public-private partnerships, and multilateral organizations. Teaming with these organizations, she has helped develop strategies, create partnerships, strengthen operational capabilities, and improve approaches to delivering health interventions. She has led numerous projects that focus on HIV, tuberculosis, malaria, diarrheal disease, pneumonia, and oncology, across the primary intervention areas of drugs, vaccines, and diagnostics.

Before BCG, Wendy was a consultant to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), and she also worked as a senior economist for the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. She has a degree in economics from the University of Michigan, and she earned her MBA from the Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University.