Education
- PhD, Computer Vision and Machine Learning, ETH Zurich
- MSc, Computer Science, ETH Zurich
Honors and Awards
- Young Leader, American Swiss Foundation, 2019
- Swiss Innovation Award winner, 2009
Michael Breitenstein is a leader in Boston Consulting Group's Technology, Media & Telecommunications and Tech & Digital Advantage practices, and a senior expert in the firm’s Global Center for High-Stakes Auctions & Tenders and Global Center for Telco Networks.
Michael helps clients, investors, and governments in the telco, energy, and tech sectors around the globe, create impact from new technologies and solve challenges at the intersection of business strategy and technology. He is a leading auction expert and has extensive global experience supporting bidders and auctioneers end-to-end in high-stakes auctions and tenders across industries.
Michael also has extensive experience in a broad range of strategy and transformational topics across mobile and fixed telecommunication networks, 5G/6G, infrastructure, spectrum, network transactions and separations, cloudification, regulatory matters, broadband and FWA, satellite communications, large-scale renewable energy sources, and hydrogen. He has worked with clients across Western and Eastern Europe, North and South America, Asia, and the Middle East.