Consulting Magazine's
Top Consultants, 2000-2011

Hans-Paul Bürkner has been president and chief executive officer since 2003. He joined the firm in 1981 and was a member of the teams that opened BCG's Düsseldorf (1982) and Frankfurt (1991) offices. Before becoming the firm's first chief executive officer from Europe, he was head of BCG's global Financial Institutions practice.

During his 30 years at BCG, he has counted among his clients many of the world's leading financial institutions. He has worked with them to redefine the competitive landscapes in their segments, spearheaded major global expansion initiatives, and helped them create innovative new business models in their various activities.

Hans-Paul studied economics, business administration, and Chinese, receiving a Diplom from the University of Bochum, an MA from Yale University, and a DPhil from the University of Oxford, where he was a Rhodes Scholar.

Today he is based in both Frankfurt and New York, and travels extensively among BCG's global offices.

In a Financial Times profile, Hans-Paul discusses his management style and his vision for the firm.

Joe is a senior partner and the office administrator of the Washington office. He joined BCG in 1988 in Boston, and he also worked in the Melbourne office before cofounding the Washington office in 1996.

Joe leads the firm’s Public Sector practice for the Americas region, and he has extensive experience redesigning government agencies and their processes. Joe's recognition as one of Consulting magazine's Top 25 Consultants in 2011 was specifically for "excellence in public sector."

He is also a member of the Consumer and Retail practice and the Operations practice. His retail and consumer experience spans a wide range of operational and strategic topics, including corporate strategy, competitive position analysis, customer segmentation, and target marketing strategies.

Joe holds a BA in economics from Whitman College, and he earned his MBA from Harvard Business School. Before BCG, he worked for six years at Procter & Gamble in sales and marketing.

Jeanie joined BCG as a partner in 1988. Before BCG, she owned her own consulting firm in Minneapolis, advising a wide variety of businesses ranging from health care firms to large manufacturing companies and financial service firms.

Jeanie is a world-renowned expert on change management and has more than 30 years of experience working with organizations in transition. Her focus has always been on the human side of change, working to ensure desired outcomes are achieved with least friction and disruption possible, in the shortest amount of time.

Jeanie is the best-selling author of The Change Monster: The Human Forces that Fuel or Foil Corporate Transformation and Change. She has published numerous articles for The Harvard Business Review and for BCG.

Jeanie has taught at the University of Alabama, Birmingham, and the Pratt Institute in New York, where she earned her master’s degree. She retired from BCG in July 2008.

Steve is a member of the Consumer and Retail practices and a coleader of their work on the East Coast of the United States In addition to serving as the chairman of North and South America he is also a senior partner in our Washington office and member of the Executive Committee.

While at BCG, Steve has led several major change-management efforts for clients. Beyond his work for the firm, he serves on the board of trustees of the Committee for Economic Development (CED), a nonprofit organization.

Steve holds a BA with distinction in economics and government from Cornell University and a master's degree in public and private management from the Yale School of Organization and Management. He holds a JD from Yale Law School, where he was editor of The Yale Law Journal.

Rich is the Chairman of North and South America and is a core member of the Health Care and Consumer practice areas. He also heads our relationship with a leading pharmaceutical company.

Rich's project experience includes work on strategy and corporate development, as well as several major organizational—and operational—change efforts. He has recently worked on a large-scale postmerger integration, brand and channel strategies, alliance development, marketing and sales improvement, and e-business strategy.

Prior to joining the firm in 1988, Rich worked as a process development engineer and group leader at Procter & Gamble, where he led several projects aimed at reducing product costs and introducing new products. He has also worked in synthetic fuels R&D at Westinghouse Electric and BP.

Rich holds an M.B.A. with high distinction from Harvard Business School, where he was designated a Baker scholar. He earned a bachelor's degree summa cum laude in chemical engineering from the University of Michigan.

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.

Antonella is BCG's worldwide Brand topic leader and member of the worldwide Media practice. For over ten years Antonella has organized the "Brand Club," the top branding and media focused conference for CEOs in Germany. She works out of our Munich and Vienna offices and is a member of BCG's Executive Committee and of the European Management Team in charge of European Marketing.

In addition to her project work, Antonella is a coinitiator of the school project business@school. She also leads other BCG social impact activities, including the German Bone Marrow Donor Center (DKMS) as well as Europe's 500 – Entrepreneurs for Growth, the European association of fast growing companies. For four years, Antonella regularly wrote pieces for one of Austria's major daily newspapers. A selection of these essays focused on the art and science of strategy and leadership has been published in her book Acupuncture for Management.

Antonella studied business administration at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München. She earned her doctorate at Università degli Studi di Roma and holds an M.B.A. from INSEAD, Fontainebleau.

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.

Michael joined BCG in 1980 and works in our Chicago office. He is the partner responsible for BCG's Client Service Initiative and is a member of the Executive Committee. Previously, he led our Consumer practice.
During his 29 years with BCG, Michael has worked with many global companies. He is an expert in consumer behavior, helping large companies improve their value propositions, and retail brands. In addition to his client work, Michael has cowritten a number of books, the most recent being Women Want More, a look at the enormous opportunity represented by the rise of the "female economy."  His previous book, Treasure Hunt, was published in 2006 and received critical acclaim. Michael's best-seller Trading Up was published in 2003 and received the Berry Prize from the American Marketing Association for the best book published on marketing.

Before joining BCG, Michael was a reporter for United Press International. He holds an MBA with distinction from the Harvard Business School and a BA in economics and history from Brown University.

Janmejaya is Chairman of BCG in Asia-Pacific. His primary focus is around issues of strategy, corporate governance, risk, operations, and organization for financial services clients around the world.

Janmejaya writes regularly for the Indian press and speaks frequently on a wide variety of subjects in different industry forums like Confederation of Indian Industry (CII), Indian Banks Association (IBA), etc. He is regularly asked to join committees formed by the RBI, IBA, and CII and currently sits on CII's banking committee, services council, and is part of IBA's working group to review the Banking Regulation Act.

Before becoming a consultant, Janmejaya worked for ten years with the Reserve Bank of India across various departments. He has a Ph.D. from Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs; a B.A. and an M.A. in economics from Clare College, Cambridge University; and a B.A. and an M.A. in history from St. Stephen's College, Delhi University.

George is a Toronto-based senior advisor and one of the world’s foremost authorities on business strategy. He also serves as an adjunct professor of strategic management for the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto.

A former member of BCG’s Strategy, Consumer, and Operations practices, George has focused his consulting career on helping companies create sustainable competitive advantage. He has advised the top management of many companies—mostly in manufacturing, technology, and consumer products—throughout the Americas, Europe, and Asia.

George is the coauthor of numerous best-selling books on time-based competition, which have won global acclaim and recognition through awards. In the fall of 2008, he was inducted as a Fellow in the Strategic Management Society, joining BCG founder Bruce Henderson the only professional consultants in the society.

He holds a BS in engineering mechanics from the University of Michigan, an MS in aeronautics and astronautics from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and an MBA from Harvard Business School.

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.

Kaz is a senior advisor based in the Tokyo office. Since joining BCG in 1985, he has worked extensively with companies in the high tech, telecommunications, and automobile industries. His experience includes marketing strategy, new business development, and globalization strategies. He was head of BCG Japan from June 2000 to December 2004.

Since April 2006 he has also been a professor at Waseda Business School, teaching strategy and leadership.

Before joining BCG, he worked for Japan Airlines for 11 years in various roles, including long-term marketing strategy at the head office in Tokyo, passenger sales and planning in Osaka, and passenger sales in Melbourne, Australia.

Kaz holds a BS in engineering from the University of Tokyo and an MBA from Keio University.

John is a member of the firm's Consumer and Health Care practices. He has written extensively about the opportunities and challenges of doing business in China.

John holds a BS in chemical engineering with first-class honors from Imperial College in London, an MS in chemical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and an MBA from Harvard Business School.