Growth through strong leadership

Paul Laudicina

Paul Laudicina
Managing Officer and Chairman of the Board

Paul was elected managing officer of A.T. Kearney and took office in September 2006; he was re-elected to a second term in 2009. Paul is the seventh person to lead the firm in its 80-year history.

He joined the firm in 1991 and was the founder and Managing Director of A.T. Kearney’s Global Business Policy Council, which is among the consulting industry’s longest-standing strategic services for CEOs. He has more than 25 years of global consulting and management experience in industry, government and research institutions. During Paul’s consulting career he has provided leadership in the areas of global business strategy, risk management and foreign direct investment.

Paul is the author of numerous articles and books, including World Out of Balance (McGraw-Hill, 2005), and was named one of the “Top 25 Most Influential Consultants” by Consulting Magazine in 2005 and 2007.

Our UK partners are:
 
Phil Morgan

Phil Morgan
Managing Partner, UK

Joined the Firm: 1997

Phil has extensive experience of advising on boardroom issues, with a focus on retail and consumer goods businesses. Phil has worked with many leading companies in these sectors on a variety of strategic and operational opportunities. Prior to joining A.T. Kearney, he held a number of senior positions over 17 years with Mars Inc. Phil became Managing Partner of the UK office in January 2008.

Jonathan Anscombe

Jonathan Anscombe

Partner, London

Joined the Firm: 1989

Jonathan leads the Pharmaceutical and Healthcare (PHC) Practice in the UK, and Co-leads the European PHC Practice. Jonathan joined A.T. Kearney following a career in industry with Kodak, Procter and Gamble and H.J. Heinz Company. Over the last 12 years Jonathan has worked for many public and private health clients including the Department of Health, NHS, health insurers, private hospital groups, pharmaceutical companies, and medical equipment suppliers.

Charles Davis

Charles Davis
Partner, London

Joined the Firm: 1995

Charles has over 17 years of industry and consulting experience in supply chain and operations. Charles' experience across industry sectors enables him to contribute to clients' delivery of tangible results in a variety of situations. Charles is responsible for the client quality process in A.T. Kearney.

Ira Gaberman

Ira Gaberman
Partner, London

Joined the Firm: 1999

Ira leads our Public Healthcare team in the UK and our Leadership and Change team across Europe. Ira has supported Boards and executive teams across the public and private sectors to design and deliver new service offerings, new operating models and organisation-wide transformations.

Charles Hughes

Charles Hughes
Partner,London

Joined the Firm: 1999

Charles is the European Head of the Government and Public Sector Consulting Practice specialising in technology and transformation. Charles has led many change and modernisation programmes within the UK and across Europe.

 

Phil Dunne

Phil Dunne
Partner, London

Joined the Firm: 1995

Phil heads up the Transaction Services and Strategy Practice in London. Phil has extensive international experience working with clients in India, China, Korea and North America as well as in Europe. He is a member of the Global Partner Selection Committee.

Richard Forrest

Richard Forrest
Partner,London

Joined the Firm: 1999

Richard has over 15 years of industry and consulting experience. He is the head of the Process Industries practice with extensive experience in downstream oil, petrochemicals and specialty chemicals. His recent work includes significant operational and post merger improvement projects for leading industry companies.

Penney Frohling

Penney Frohling
Partner, London

Joined the Firm: 2007

Penney has 24 years of experience in the financial services sector. Since joining the firm, she has strengthened the practice, working at Board and CEO level on core strategic issues in the cards, retail banking, and long-term savings sectors. Prior to A.T. Kearney, she spent 10 years in consumer banking at Citibank and led the Private Banking/Asset Management practice at Gemini consulting for 6 years.

Mark Page

Mark Page
Partner, London

Joined the Firm: 2004

Mark has over 15 years experience of consulting to leading telecommunications, media and high tech companies. He heads up the UK telecommunication practice. Mark served as Global Board Director of A.T. Kearney from 2006 - 2008.

 

Jim Pearce

Jim Pearce
Partner, London

Joined the Firm: 2000

Jim Pearce is a partner in our Energy and Process Industries practice with expertise in Upstream Oil and Gas and Mining. Functionally Jim has deep expertise in Post merger integration, Procurement and Large Capital Projects. He has been at A.T. Kearney for 9 years, and prior that worked in gold mining in Ghana, then with Schlumberger in oil exploration for 6 years. He attended INSEAD for his MBA on a scholarship.

 
Our European Practice Leaders are:
 
Joel Benzimra

Joel Benzimra
Partner, Paris

Joined the Firm: 1996

Joel leads the Consumer, Retail & Luxury Practice for Europe, bringing over 20 years of experience in strategy consulting to bear on issues facing senior client management. His areas of expertise include complexity reduction and portfolio management, due diligence and post-merger integration, and indirect spend efficiency.

Matthias Cord

Matthias Cord
Partner, Düsseldorf

Joined the firm : 2001

Matthias heads up the European Utilities Practice. He has 4 years of industry and 14 years of consulting experience in the utilities, oil and gas industry. Prior to joining the firm, he worked for two international oil companies and for Arthur D. Little.

Stephane Remy

Stephane Remy
Partner, Paris

Joined the Firm: 1999

Stephane heads up the Marketing & Sales Practice in Europe. Stephane has an extensive experience helping his clients from Branded Consumer, Telecom, Banking and many others Industries in Europe and North America to grow profitably. He is a member of the European Leadership Team.

Holger Röeder

Holger Röeder
Partner, Frankfurt

Joined the Firm: 1999

Holger leads our European Strategic IT Practice. He has over 16 years experience in management consulting. Holger’s areas of expertise include IT strategies for various industries, restructuring of IT organizations and business strategies for IT software and service providers.

Jürgen Rothenbücher

Jürgen Rothenbücher
Partner, Munich

Joined the Firm: 2001

Jürgen leads our European strategy practice. He has over 20 years experience in consulting and three as managing director in industry. Jürgen’s areas of expertise include growth strategies, operations and process reengineering.

Ferry Salehi

Ferry Salehi
Partner, Berlin

Joined the Firm: 1991

Ferdinand Salehi leads the European Transportation Travel & Infrastructure Practice. He has comprehensive transportation and supply chain experience as a consultant and also from CXO positions in the industry. He serves global clients in all transportation modes e.g. Rail, Road, Air & Ocean and segments such as Express, Contract Logistics, Postal Services, Air- and Seaports.

Niko Soellner

Niko Soellner
Partner, Düsseldorf
Joined the Firm: 1980

Niko leads the firm’s Global and European Automotive practice. His 28 year consulting career has included engagements across multiple industries including automotive, consumer, construction, engineering, high tech, telecommunications and utilities. Representative engagements include cost reduction and turnaround programmes, procurement network development and process reengineering.

 
 
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