Matthias Kruehler leads Boston Consulting Group’s global business for transactions in utilities. He focuses on the global utility industry.

Since joining the firm in Hamburg in 2006, Matthias has built deep expertise in corporate transactions and company transformations. In more than 80 engagements, he has supported his clients in shaping corporate strategies, developing portfolios, professionalizing capital allocation processes, and executing transactions and integration processes.

Matthias is one of the lead members in the firm’s Energy practice in Central Europe and the Middle East, and as such drives the restructuring of the European utilities landscape. For his power and gas clients, he focuses on M&A deals and carve-outs to facilitate the redesign of a company’s strategic focus in order to enable proactive subsequent PMIs, and ensure every invested Euro returns maximum value.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

  • Post-merger Integration
  • Carve-outs
  • M&A
  • Large-scale transformation
  • Portfolio management
  • Parenting strategy
  • Deconstruction of the value-chain

EDUCATION

  • PhD, Technical University of Freiberg
  • MA, University of Münster
  • BA, University of Freiburg

HONORS AND AWARDS

  • Chair, Joblinge gAG Hanse Board

Publications and Videos

How Leaders Bring Product and Sales Teams Together

How Leaders Bring Product and Sales Teams Together

The best innovators encourage customer-facing and technology-facing teams to collaborate. What can we learn from companies that have broken down silos?
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The Readiness Gap

More companies are betting on innovation, but too few have the systemic ability to transform aspirations into results. A few targeted changes can unlock significant benefits.
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Gaining Digital Ground Through PMI

The advance of digital technology is changing organic growth strategy. Successful post-merger integrations now start by uniting the new enterprise around common tech platforms.
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Bionic Finance Offers a Strategic Edge

By combining technology and human capabilities, a finance function can orchestrate the work of other departments and help the company achieve its strategic objectives.
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The Middle East Capitalizes on Its Commitment to Innovation

The Middle East is home to some of the most committed innovators in the world.
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Value Creation in Power and Utilities 2020

Players that shift from centralized conventional generation toward a more distributed and digital approach are likely to become the next decade’s value creation leaders.
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Powering Up PMI in the Utilities Sector

M&A deals are destroying shareholder value in the industry. Poor post-merger integration is to blame. Here’s how to turn the power back on.
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The CFO’s Vital Role in Corporate Transformation

CFOs can maintain a relentless focus on value creation by serving as strategic advisors to business leaders, overseeing performance, and communicating a persuasive equity story to investors.
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Value Creation in Power and Gas

Despite an increasingly challenging business environment, some power and gas companies have managed to generate solid returns for their investors. How have they done it?
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Designing the Corporate Center: How to Turn Strategy into Structure

How can corporate centers make their business portfolios worth more than the sum of their parts? By translating parenting strategy into organizational design. Here’s how.
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Visualizing a Company’s Parenting Strategy

By using BCG’s parenting-strategy spider chart, companies can identify their current parenting strategy and visualize the changes necessary to migrate to another, more appropriate strategy.
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How to Be a Good Corporate Parent

Corporate parents can create value, but they can also destroy it. To ensure that the net value added is positive, select the right parenting strategy.
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