TEAM

Leadership

Michael Kolk

Managing Partner Technology & Innovation Management
The Netherlands

Michael Kolk

Managing Partner Technology & Innovation Management
The Netherlands

Michaël helps clients in the chemicals, life sciences and technology-intensive industries to identify, realize and sustain innovation-based growth and value creation.

Fareeda Ahmed

Principal
USA

Fareeda Ahmed

Principal
USA

Innovation leader with 15 years’ experience in launching groundbreaking products and services, focused on using digital as a gateway to connect with new markets and audiences

Shinichi Akayama

Partner
Japan

Shinichi Akayama

Partner
Japan

Shinichi advises multiple TIME (Telecom, Internet, Media and Electronics) clients on growth strategy, turnaround and transformation.

Salman Ali

Principal
Spain

Salman Ali

Principal
Spain

Salman advises on strategy, organization and innovation, capitalizing on his cross-sector consulting experience.

Toshihiro Ariki

Principal
Japan

Toshihiro Ariki

Principal
Japan

Engaged in the mechatronics field, focusing on technical development strategy, new business planning, and business strategy based on the practical business realization plan

Vincenzo Basile

Partner
Italy

Vincenzo Basile

Partner
Italy

Vincenzo has significant consulting experience in the areas of Transformation Programs, Managed Services, restructuring, business process management and Program Management.

Matthias Bechtolsheim

Director
Central Europe

Matthias Bechtolsheim

Director
Central Europe

Matthias supports energy firms in benefiting from the transformation of the energy industry through growth strategies, radical innovation and smart use of digitalization.

Nick Damenti

Principal
USA

Nick Damenti

Principal
USA

A technology professional with over 30 years experience developing, deploying and managing voice, wireless and OTT video services for telecommunication providers.

Fabian Dömer

Managing Partner Central Europe
Central Europe

Fabian Dömer

Managing Partner Central Europe
Central Europe

Advising on business innovation, digitalization, IT strategy and new operating models, Fabian helps enterprises to transform their businesses towards the digital world by using employees and IT as key enablers.

Rick Eagar

Partner Emeritus
United Kingdom

Rick Eagar

Partner Emeritus
United Kingdom

Rick advises large companies and public organizations on innovation, R&D and technology management, including strategy, organization and performance improvement.

Martijn Eikelenboom

Managing Partner Netherlands
Netherlands

Martijn Eikelenboom

Managing Partner Netherlands
Netherlands

Martijn combines his experience as strategy consultant and business executive to help clients transform into sustainable, digital-age-ready growth businesses.

Juan González

Partner
Spain

Juan González

Partner
Spain

Advises decision makers on choices where technology plays a disruptive role

Chuck Goodnight

Partner
USA

Chuck Goodnight

Partner
USA

With over three decades of experience in the Energy & Utilities sector, Chuck helps clients realize optimization opportunities and develop & implement strategic plans.

Yu Hamada

Principal
Japan

Yu Hamada

Principal
Japan

Yu supports clients with strategy development and execution in various industries such as automotive, manufacturing and social infrastructure.

Ryo Hanamura

Partner
Japan

Ryo Hanamura

Partner
Japan

Ryo has extensive experience with innovation management for several Life Science & Healthcare companies.

Yusuke Harada

Managing Partner Japan & South East Asia
Japan

Yusuke Harada

Managing Partner Japan & South East Asia
Japan

Yusuke employs a holistic approach to innovation management, linking vision creation, strategy setting, process reformation, organizational renewal, and learning organization development.

Wolf-Dieter Hoppe

Partner
Central Europe

Wolf-Dieter Hoppe

Partner
Central Europe

Wolf-Dieter concentrates on helping clients define and execute breakthrough innovation and operations strategies, implement high-performance business models and improve their competitive and operational performance in the automotive and industrial segment.

Amir Imam

Principal
USA

Amir Imam

Principal
USA

Amir is an accomplished professional with over 20 years of experience in telecom and media sectors delivering growth business strategies.

Nicholas Johnson

Partner
United Kingdom

Nicholas Johnson

Partner
United Kingdom

Nicholas applies disruptive technologies and ways of working that are more start-up than corporate, to solve intractable problems and deliver breakthrough business change.

Shahid Khan

Partner
USA

Shahid Khan

Partner
USA

Acclaimed thought leader, executive and serial entrepreneur in the TIME sector, with a 25+ year track-record across the US and the Middle East.

Nilesh Khandelwal

Principal
USA

Nilesh Khandelwal

Principal
USA

Nilesh is an expert in the technology and media space, with over 20 years track record as a successful entrepreneur and consultant.

Raymond Khoury

Partner
Middle East

Raymond Khoury

Partner
Middle East

Raymond has over 29 years of experience advising senior government officials, private sector executives, and decision-makers on advancing their technology-driven modernization agendas with proper governance measures for tangible results.

Michael Kolk

Managing Partner Technology & Innovation Management
The Netherlands

Michael Kolk

Managing Partner Technology & Innovation Management
The Netherlands

Michaël helps clients in the chemicals, life sciences and technology-intensive industries to identify, realize and sustain innovation-based growth and value creation.

Maki Kurosawa

Partner
Japan

Maki Kurosawa

Partner
Japan

Maki advises global and local clients on their growth strategies through technology innovation.

Pavel Lubuzh

Partner
Russia

Pavel Lubuzh

Partner
Russia

Pavel has over 20 years of experience advising senior executives and decision makers on making strategic changes and achieving tangible results, and has a solid track record with implementation of complex projects in large companies.

Barnik Maitra

Managing Partner India & South Asia
India

Barnik Maitra

Managing Partner India & South Asia
India

Barnik helps CEO build high growth, globalized businesses and is an avid technologist and start-up enthusiast

Michael Majster

Partner
Belgium

Michael Majster

Partner
Belgium

Michael helps businesses pivot to the digital world by aligning processes, technologies and people with new operating models.

Alan Martinovich

Partner
USA

Alan Martinovich

Partner
USA

Alan’s work is centered on helping clients accelerate profitable growth and create shareholder value

Fabio Matera

Principal
Italy

Fabio Matera

Principal
Italy

Fabio specializes in in Asset Management, Real Estate and Banking, with primary focus on business transformation, innovation and organizational design.

Shota Mitsuya

Partner
Japan

Shota Mitsuya

Partner
Japan

Shota combines broad cross-sector experience to advise manufacturing companies on growth strategy and governments on policy planning and social design.

Philipp Mudersbach

Principal
Central Europe

Philipp Mudersbach

Principal
Central Europe

Philipp is a seasoned strategy consultant and entrepreneur who helps clients solve challenges particularly related to customer centricity, digital innovation and agile development.

Isao Nagatomi

Principal
Japan & South East Asia

Isao Nagatomi

Principal
Japan & South East Asia

Isao provides side-by-side support in R&D strategy, new business strategy, turnaround strategy, and other types of innovation in the manufacturing industry.

Florent Nansé

Principal
USA

Florent Nansé

Principal
USA

Florent combines broad industry experience with deep expertise in strategy and innovation to deliver high-impact changes for industrial companies.

Mario Nico

Partner
Italy

Mario Nico

Partner
Italy

Mario has 23 years' experience in consulting for major Italian Central Government, Ministries, Regions and other Public Bodies.

Michael Opitz

Partner
Central Europe

Michael Opitz

Partner
Central Europe

Michael advises clients in the telecommunication industry on new growth areas, operating model design and digital transformation.

Utku ÖZ

Partner
Middle East

Utku ÖZ

Partner
Middle East

Utku is an expert in applying digital and analytics solutions to business problems and facilitating companies’ transformations to data-driven organizations.

Alexey Pankov

Associate Director
Russia

Alexey Pankov

Associate Director
Russia

Alexey is an expert in strategic, operational and organizational development, with 12+ years of experience in consulting and leading manufacturing companies.

Michael Papadopoulos

Principal
United Kingdom

Michael Papadopoulos

Principal
United Kingdom

Michael is a strong advocate of the DevOps culture and agile principles, with demonstrated experience applying both in challenging global environments. Coming from a development background, he remains highly technical, with hands-on involvement.

Sebastian Pfanner

Principal
Central Europe

Sebastian Pfanner

Principal
Central Europe

Sebastian specializes in advising industry clients on translating disruptive technologies into connected products, catalysts for the digital transformation, and enabling organizations to excel.

Volker Pfirsching

Partner
Central Europe

Volker Pfirsching

Partner
Central Europe

Volker is a pioneer in digital shift and has deep expertise in comprehensive and successful digital transformation.

Raf Postepski

Principal
United Kingdom

Raf Postepski

Principal
United Kingdom

Raf advises clients across multiple industries on technology-related topics covering aspects such as digital strategy and transformation, IT operating model, customer experience, service management, adoption engineering, data analytics and AI & machine learning

Prashanth Prasad

Principal
USA

Prashanth Prasad

Principal
USA

Prashanth is a seasoned Strategy and Operations Consultant for the Healthcare & Life Sciences and Technology Industries

Stephen Rogers

Associate Director
United Kingdom

Stephen Rogers

Associate Director
United Kingdom

Stephen combines deep technical knowledge with valuation expertise, advising energy companies on strategy, organizational and operational issues.

Mark Rowland

Partner
USA

Mark Rowland

Partner
USA

Mark helps clients in the telecom and wireless industries tackle complex challenges around business and technology strategy, technology & new product development and operations improvement.

Andrea Schettino

Principal
Italy

Andrea Schettino

Principal
Italy

Andrea combines core expertise in strategy and organization with deep knowledge of the Italian public sector, providing strategic support and policy expertise to such key public players as Ministries, Local Administrations and Authorities.

Klaus Schmitz

Partner
Central Europe

Klaus Schmitz

Partner
Central Europe

Klaus advises automotive and high-tech companies on strategy, digitization, innovation and technology.

Dan Scholz

Principal
USA

Dan Scholz

Principal
USA

With over a decade in the Energy & Utilities sector, Dan focuses on helping drive improvement for his clients.

Ulrica Sehlstedt

Managing Partner Healthcare & Life Sciences Nordic
Sweden

Ulrica Sehlstedt

Managing Partner Healthcare & Life Sciences Nordic
Sweden

Ulrica brings over 20 years of broad-sector experience to serving clients across the entire healthcare and life science ecosystem.

Fabian Sempf

Principal
Central Europe

Fabian Sempf

Principal
Central Europe

Fabian transforms companies to be successful in our digital world by combining technological & IT knowledge, governance & process experience and cultural change management skills.

Greg Smith

Partner
United Kingdom

Greg Smith

Partner
United Kingdom

Greg helps organizations solve their intractable problems using disruptive digital technologies and ways of working

Kiyoung Song

Principal
Korea

Kiyoung Song

Principal
Korea

Kiyoung advises strategy execution with in-depth experience in corporate strategy, investment and technology evolution in broad cross-sectors (B2C, B2B & B2G).

Hiroto Suzuki

Managing Partner Automotive & Manufacturing
Japan

Hiroto Suzuki

Managing Partner Automotive & Manufacturing
Japan

Hiroto specializes in business and technology strategy for manufacturing industries.

Karim Taga

Managing Partner Telecommunications, Information Technology, Media & Electronics (TIME)
Austria

Karim Taga

Managing Partner Telecommunications, Information Technology, Media & Electronics (TIME)
Austria

Karim advises board members and CEOs to take effective decisions on the telco transformation journey.

Tom Teixeira

Partner
United Kingdom

Tom Teixeira

Partner
United Kingdom

Tom has 23+ years of experience advising senior executives and decision makers in reducing their Total Cost of Risk (TCOR).

Franziska Thomas

Associate Director
Central Europe

Franziska Thomas

Associate Director
Central Europe

Franziska is an expert in bringing life science innovation to patients faster and more effectively and brings 15 years of experience in the pharma and biotech industry.

Ben Thuriaux-Aleman

Partner
United Kingdom

Ben Thuriaux-Aleman

Partner
United Kingdom

Ben delivers strategic change and process improvement to improve industry technology and innovation management.

Johan Treutiger

Partner
Sweden

Johan Treutiger

Partner
Sweden

Johan helps industry, investors and public sector clients succeed in the changing business environment driven by digitalization and disruptive technologies.

Oliver Turnbull

Principal
United Kingdom

Oliver Turnbull

Principal
United Kingdom

Oliver is a Principal at Arthur D. Little, based in our London office, and works in our “Digital Problem Solving” Practice in the United Kingdom.

Hirotaka Uchida

Hirotaka is a principal at Arthur D. Little, managing Thai office, covering whole of Southeast Asia. He advises mainly manufacturing companies on growth strategy, new business launch, M&A, change management, R&D/Innovation management and operational transformation including digital.

Koji Uchida

Principal
Japan

Koji Uchida

Principal
Japan

Koji focuses on business strategy development in industrial materials and chemicals, as well as turnaround and corporate finance in broad industries.

Thomas Unger

Associate Director
USA

Thomas Unger

Associate Director
USA

Thomas is an experienced executive working with scientific and private equity firms seeking to invest in and support the growth of Life Sciences companies

Katia Valtorta

Principal
Italy

Katia Valtorta

Principal
Italy

Katia combines sustainability and clean-technologies experience with deep expertise in strategy and innovation to help clients transform and create a sustainable and exciting future.

Ben van der Schaaf

Partner
USA

Ben van der Schaaf

Partner
USA

Ben focuses on the life sciences and healthcare sector, specifically pharmaceutical R&D, including post-merger integration, quality & compliance, organizational analysis and design, strategic sourcing & partnering and operations management.

Frederik van Oene

Associate Director
Belgium

Frederik van Oene

Associate Director
Belgium

Frederik’s work is mostly focused on helping organizations to become better at innovating.

Bela Virag

Managing Partner Austria
Austria

Bela Virag

Managing Partner Austria
Austria

Bela advises telecommunication operators in transforming their B2B segments in regards to growth (core, near core and beyond) and operational efficiency.

Andrey Volk

Associate Director
Russia

Andrey Volk

Associate Director
Russia

Andrey has over 12 years of experience transforming large heavy industry companies, optimizing management systems and increasing operational excellence, which has led to tangible financial results.

Phil Webster

Principal
United Kingdom

Phil Webster

Principal
United Kingdom

Phil is a strategy consultant specializing in technology and innovation management, with an academic background in the life sciences.

George Yun

Partner
USA

George Yun

Partner
USA

With nearly 30 years of experience in serving TIME clients globally, George helps clients address their technology and product needs by strategizing and implementing innovative solutions.

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Leadership

Michael Kolk

Managing Partner Technology & Innovation Management The Netherlands

Michael Kolk

Managing Partner Technology & Innovation Management The Netherlands

Team

Fareeda Ahmed

Principal USA

Fareeda Ahmed

Principal USA

Shinichi Akayama

Partner Japan

Shinichi Akayama

Partner Japan

Salman Ali

Principal Spain

Salman Ali

Principal Spain

Toshihiro Ariki

Principal Japan

Toshihiro Ariki

Principal Japan

Vincenzo Basile

Partner Italy

Vincenzo Basile

Partner Italy

Matthias Bechtolsheim

Director Central Europe

Matthias Bechtolsheim

Director Central Europe

Nick Damenti

Principal USA

Nick Damenti

Principal USA

Fabian Dömer

Managing Partner Central Europe Central Europe

Fabian Dömer

Managing Partner Central Europe Central Europe

Rick Eagar

Partner Emeritus United Kingdom

Rick Eagar

Partner Emeritus United Kingdom

Martijn Eikelenboom

Managing Partner Netherlands Netherlands

Martijn Eikelenboom

Managing Partner Netherlands Netherlands

Juan González

Partner Spain

Juan González

Partner Spain

Chuck Goodnight

Partner USA

Chuck Goodnight

Partner USA

Yu Hamada

Principal Japan

Yu Hamada

Principal Japan

Ryo Hanamura

Partner Japan

Ryo Hanamura

Partner Japan

Yusuke Harada

Managing Partner Japan & South East Asia Japan

Yusuke Harada

Managing Partner Japan & South East Asia Japan

Wolf-Dieter Hoppe

Partner Central Europe

Wolf-Dieter Hoppe

Partner Central Europe

Managing Partner Technology & Innovation Management
The Netherlands

Managing Partner Technology & Innovation Management
The Netherlands

Principal
USA

Principal
USA

Partner
Japan

Partner
Japan

Principal
Spain

Principal
Spain

Principal
Japan

Principal
Japan

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Italy

Partner
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Central Europe

Director
Central Europe

Principal
USA

Principal
USA

Managing Partner Central Europe
Central Europe

Managing Partner Central Europe
Central Europe

Partner Emeritus
United Kingdom

Partner Emeritus
United Kingdom

Managing Partner Netherlands
Netherlands

Managing Partner Netherlands
Netherlands

Partner
Spain

Partner
Spain

Partner
USA

Partner
USA

Principal
Japan

Principal
Japan

Partner
Japan

Partner
Japan

Managing Partner Japan & South East Asia
Japan

Managing Partner Japan & South East Asia
Japan

Partner
Central Europe

Partner
Central Europe

Principal
USA

Principal
USA

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United Kingdom

Partner
United Kingdom

Partner
USA

Partner
USA

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USA

Principal
USA

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Middle East

Partner
Middle East

Managing Partner Technology & Innovation Management
The Netherlands

Managing Partner Technology & Innovation Management
The Netherlands

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Japan

Partner
Japan

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Russia

Partner
Russia

Managing Partner India & South Asia
India

Managing Partner India & South Asia
India

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Belgium

Partner
Belgium

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USA

Partner
USA

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Italy

Principal
Italy

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Japan

Partner
Japan

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Central Europe

Principal
Central Europe

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Japan & South East Asia

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Principal
USA

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