GOETZPARTNERS HOLDING - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Co - Head
- Partner
- Partner / Management
Björn Röber is a partner and Co-Head of Digital at goetzpartners. He is passionate about leveraging digital technologies and new ways of working to help creating exponential organizations.
He has developed and implemented large scale programmatic digital transformations that address the whole workforce and increase organizational agility. Further, he supported various companies in transforming their IT from being a digitalization roadblock to an enabler. Finally, he helps companies to establish effective innovation hubs to develop disruptive and radical innovations.
Björn Röber was the lead author of several influential publications like "The Value of Our Digital Identity" or "Reforming Europe's Telecoms Regulation to Enable the Digital Single Market". Recently he has created "Think Cards" as a guide for people who want to embark on the digitalization journey. He co-founded DEX - Digital Executives Roundtable - as an event series for leaders in the digital space.
Before joining goetzpartners, Björn Röber worked for several years at The Boston Consulting Group in Düsseldorf and San Francisco. In addition, he has founded several companies in the hardware and software space. He has a degree in business administration (Diplom-Kaufmann) from the Leipzig Graduate School of Management (HHL) in Germany.
Job Titles:
- Partner
- Partner / Management
Christian Bast is Partner at goetzpartners in the New York office.
He is responsible for the global Operations practice, focusing on generating value by creating competitive advantages through world-class operations for multinational corporations and private equity portfolio companies.
Christian Bast has acquired deep expertise in corporate strategy, turnaround, large-scale transformation, performance improvement, as well as value creation programs. He has advised clients in Europe, Asia, and the United States across several industries such as TMT, industrials & automotive and energy.
Prior to joining goetzpartners in 2009, Christian worked for Roland Berger in Munich and the Droege Group in Singapore. He holds an MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and a Master's Degree in Business Engineering from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany.
Job Titles:
- Head
- Managing Director
- Managing Director / Management
Christian Imhof is Managing Director and Head of goetzpartners technologies.
He is an entrepreneur and experienced IT and Strategy Consultant with more than 15 years expertise in large scale digital transformations. He has hands-on experience in designing, building, and scaling process digitalization, data & analytics platforms, and digital commerce solutions.
He started his career as a brand manager at Mondelez and then joined BCG to build up the consumer goods practice for eight years. Later, he shifted his focus from strategy to implementation and joined the Adecco Group to design and lead the global digital transformation program. Further, he has built up the business in Switzerland for a tech implementation company.
Christian holds a master's degree (Lic. Oec. HSG) from the University of St Gall with a major in Marketing. He is a visiting lecturer at HWZ for AI, Low Code and for Bionic Organizations.
Job Titles:
- Corporate Finance
- Managing Director
- Managing Director / Corporate Finance / Zurich
- Managing Director and Co - Head at Goetzpartners in Freienbach / Zurich
Dr. Herbert Werle is a Managing Director and Co-Head at goetzpartners in Freienbach/Zurich. He is responsible for the Swiss goetzpartners operations. He is also a member of the goetzpartners Corporate Finance IT-team.
Dr. Werle has extensive knowledge of the IT-industry in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. He has an excellent network and access to the top management of various IT companies. Within the IT industry, Herbert Werle has completed an MBO, an IPO and has enjoyed success in numerous buy- and sell-side transactions.
Before joining goetzpartners, Dr. Werle served as the CEO of AC-Service, an international IT service company, for 17 years. It was thanks to him that the company became listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange. Before this, he worked for Hewlett Packard in sales and finance positions and with Sperry Corporation in the internal auditing division.
Dr. Werle studied at the University of St. Gallen and at the Panthéon-Sorbonne, Paris. He holds a PhD from the University of St. Gallen.
Job Titles:
- Corporate Finance
- Founder
- Managing Partner
Job Titles:
- Managing Director
- Managing Director / Management
Dr. Wolfram Römhild is a Managing Director at goetzpartners in the Munich office. He is responsible for the Industry Group Industrials & Automotive.
He has supported numerous top management teams as well as financial sponsors in multiple automotive- and technology-focused business segments.
Before joining goetzpartners, Wolfram Römhild was Associate Principal at McKinsey and founder and CEO of R & R Software.
Dr. Römhild studied Business Administration at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich, where he received a doctorate in Economics.
Job Titles:
- Partner
- Partner / Management
Filippo Cerrone is a Partner at goetzpartners in the Milan office.
He has been working as a strategy advisor for over 19 years and advised major domestic and global corporations in Italy supporting senior executives on key strategic decisions.
Filippo Cerrone works with the most important Italian and international financial sponsors to help them make the right investment decisions in the M&A sector.
He focuses on strategic and operational issues such as buy-side and sell-side strategic due diligence, business planning, market entry strategy, commercial excellence, pricing, and organisation redesign in a range of industries.
Before joining goetzpartners, Filippo Cerrone worked at EY as a Principal in the Commercial Advisory Service practice. Prior to that he was a Manager of the Italian Office at L.E.K. Consulting.
He holds a degree cum laude in Business Administration from the Bocconi University in Milan.
Job Titles:
- Advisor
- Managing Director
- Managing Director / Management
Giovanni Calia is a Managing Director at goetzpartners in Milan.
He has over 24 years of management consulting experience. Giovanni Calia is a trusted advisor to senior management at leading corporations and private equity firms and has led hundreds of strategy projects and business due diligence covering a significant number of industries.
He focused on issues such as growth strategy, pricing policy, channel management, market entry strategy, new product launch, performance improvement, sales force effectiveness and organisation redesign as well as buy-side and sell-side business due diligence and M&A projects.
Before joining goetzpartners, Giovanni Calia worked in Ernst & Young, leading the Commercial Advisory Services practice in Italy and for thirteen years in L.E.K. Consulting as a Partner and Managing Director of the Italian office. Prior to this he worked for another international management consulting firm (PIMS - Profit Impact of Market Strategy).
Giovanni Calia earned a degree cum laude in Economics at the Bocconi University in Milan.
Job Titles:
- Partner
- Partner / Management
Michele Zanin is a Partner in the Milan office of goetzpartners with a focus on strategy consulting for private equity firms and corporates.
He has been working in Management Consulting since 2008 advising top management teams of domestic and international organizations, helping them to address key strategic challenges to achieve the best results.
In the private equity sector, Michele Zanin works with leading European and global private equity firms, supporting them in taking the right decisions throughout the investment lifecycle, from the acquisition phase through portfolio work and exit.
Before joining goetzpartners, Michele Zanin worked at EY as a Manager in the Commercial Advisory Services and prior to that at L.E.K. Consulting.
He graduated with honors in Business Administration at the University of Turin.
Job Titles:
- Principal
- Principal / Management
Philip Lloyd is Principal in the Milan office and part of the private equity team.
He has worked as a strategy consultant since 2011 focusing primarily on the Consumer Packaged Goods and Retail industries both on corporate and private equity assignments. He is a specialist in Commercial Excellence projects including Perfect Store, Revenue Growth Management, and Route-to-Market Development, which he executes globally. During his career, he has successfully carried out a large number of strategic due diligence projects for Italian and foreign investors seeking to buy and/or sell Italian SMEs.
Before joining goetzpartners, Philip Lloyd worked in the Consumer & Retail Practice of OC&C Strategy Consultants and in the CPG Practice of Bain & Company.
Philip Lloyd holds an MBA from the Rotterdam School of Management and a bachelor's degree in History and Politics from the University of Warwick.
Qing Xu - Managing Director
Job Titles:
- Corporate Finance
- Managing Director
- Managing Director / Corporate Finance / Shanghai
Qing Xu is a Managing Director of goetzpartners in China.
He has over 17 years of working experience in investment banking and investment management areas in large multinational and Chinese large financial institutions.
Prior to goetzpartners, he worked for Bank of Communication International, Credit Lyonnais Securities Asia, Deloitte Corporate Finance, etc. He specialized in cross-boarder M&A, equity & debt financing, IPO, privatization, international & domestic capital operation for multinational companies, state-owned enterprises and local private enterprise in Europe and China.
He served major international and Chinese clients including Bank of Communication, Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, CITICS Securities, China Resources Group, PRADA, L'Occitane, Lafarge, French SEB Group and more.
He earned a Bachelor´s degree from Tongji University.
Job Titles:
- Corporate Finance
- Managing Director
- Managing Director of the Paris
Serge Prager is a Managing Director of the Paris office of goetzpartners.
He has worked in investment banking for more than 15 years at several firms including Société Générale and Crédit Agricole, where he advised numerous clients in the TMT, aerospace defense, energy and financial sectors.
He acted as advisor on the creation of EADS, the sale of Numericable to Altice and Cinven, the sale of Vivendi Publishing assets, the IPO of EDF, and the merger between Banques Populaires and Caisses d'Epargne.
Before joining goetzpartners, he held management positions in industry, was CFO of a listed group and Executive Vice President of a high-tech company
Serge Prager began his career in the French civil service, where he was in charge of the deregulation of the telecommunications industry in the 1990s. He is a graduate of the Ecole Polytechnique, Telecom Paris Tech and Sciences Po Paris.
Job Titles:
- Founder & Managing Partner / Management
Job Titles:
- Corporate Finance
- Managing Director