Consulting Magazine's
Top Consultants, 2000-2013

Hans-Paul Bürkner was president and chief executive officer from 2004 through 2012. 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.

Over more than 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

Joe is a senior partner and managing director. 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 joined BCG in 1983 in the Boston office and in 1995 founded the Washington office, which he led until 2003.  During the late 1990s and early 2000s, Steve also led the Consumer practice on the East Coast and BCG's Retail practice in North America.

From 2003-2009 Steve led BCG's operations in North and South America.  In 2010, he took on global leadership of BCG's Transformation & Large Scale Change practice, which he continues to lead.

Throughout all of these roles, Steve's primary client focus has been helping clients drive major change in performance in their organizations via fundamental shifts in strategy, operations, processes, and organizational structure and culture. His primary client focus still remains on retail, consumer, and distribution clients, although Steve assists with transformations across a wide range of industries.

Steve is a graduate of the Yale Law School, where he was an editor of the Law Review, as well as the Yale School of Management and Cornell University.

Rich became the sixth president and chief executive officer of BCG in January 2013. Based in New York and Beijing, he has been on the firm’s Executive Committee since 2006.

Before becoming CEO, Rich was BCG’s chairman for North and South America since 2009 and head of the New York Metro office system starting in 2000. His client work has focused on innovation, strategy, and large-scale transformation in the health care and consumer sectors. In 2009, Consulting magazine named him one of the industry's most influential consultants.

Prior to joining BCG in 1988, Rich worked as a process development engineer and group leader at Procter & Gamble.  He holds an MBA with high distinction from Harvard Business School, where he was a Baker Scholar, and a bachelor's degree summa cum laude in chemical engineering from the University of Michigan.

Read Rich’s recent “Boss Talk” interview with The Wall Street Journal.

Sharon joined BCG in 1993 and led BCG’s Consumer practice through 2012.

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 led 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.

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.

Xavier is the global leader of BCG's Automotive practice and a core member of the Industrial Goods practice. Over the years, he has helped numerous automotive companies redefine their strategies and dramatically improve operational performance in Europe, North America, and Asia.

Notably, Xavier led a BCG team that in 2009 advised President Obama’s Task Force on the Automotive Industry regarding the restructuring of General Motors and Chrysler. His recognition as one of Consulting magazine's Top 25 Consultants in 2012 was specifically for "excellence in client service."

Since joining BCG in 1985, Xavier has also worked extensively in the technology sector on matters of international strategy and organization, management of innovation, and e-business. Xavier holds an engineering degree from the French Ecole Nationale des Mines, and he earned a master of physics degree from Paris University and an MBA from INSEAD. Prior to joining BCG, he worked for Total Fina Elf and the French Ministry of Equipment.

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 such as the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) and Indian Banks Association (IBA). He is regularly asked to join committees formed by the Reserve Bank of India, IBA, and CII and currently is chairman of the CII Committee on Financial Inclusion and a member of the Investment Advisory Council for the State of Bihar.

Before becoming a consultant, Janmejaya worked for ten years with the Reserve Bank of India across various departments. He has a PhD from Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs; a BA and an MA in economics from Clare College, Cambridge University; and a BA and an MA 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.

Kim joined BCG in 1994 and is a member of our Global Advantage, Health Care, Industrial Goods, Operations, Strategy, and People and Organization practices.

In 2012 she was honored as one of Consulting magazine's Women Leaders in Consulting, specifically for her work in the area of client service. Kim, who holds a PhD in biochemistry from Harvard, is a top-flight scientist and a key client-service officer who operates across multiple industries. She leads both BCG's new product development and agribusiness work and serves on the global leadership teams of our Global Advantage and Operations practices.

Before BCG, Kim was a research associate and teaching fellow at Harvard Medical School. In addition to her PhD, she holds an MS in physiology from Texas A&M, and a BS with distinction from Cornell. She and her husband own and operate a vineyard and farm winery/distillery in New York's Hudson Valley.

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.