BearingPoint appoints new leadership roles to drive Strategy 2030 and global growth

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BearingPoint appoints new leadership roles to drive Strategy 2030 and global growth

2024-11-19 15:45 Last Updated At：15:50

AMSTERDAM--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov 19, 2024--

Management and technology consultancy BearingPoint announces new leadership roles after Matthias Loebich’s recent appointment as Managing Partner, with two new appointments and several other executives taking on expanded responsibilities within the global Management Committee:

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Elisabeth Denner has been appointed as global leader Markets. She orchestrates a strong firm-wide collaboration across all industries so that the firm’s clients get the most innovative, long-lasting solutions to serve their complex requirements. Elisabeth is based in the Paris office and has been with BearingPoint for more than 25 years. She has successfully led the Consumer, Retail, and Luxury business since 2022 and is also a member of our FBLA region management board since 2022. Elisabeth has a long and successful track record in business strategy, transformation, and digital programs for multinational corporations. She also has strong expertise in finance transformation as she led the firm’s Finance Excellence offers and teams in France from 2011 to 2017. Elisabeth joined BearingPoint in 1998 and became a Partner in 2011.

Kay Manke has been appointed as global leader of BearingPoint’s consulting portfolio and leader of the North American region. He oversees all service lines and focuses on developing new offerings and consultant expertise. Additionally, he is responsible for the generation and management of innovations. Kay is based in the Hamburg office and brings over 30 years of consulting experience to the Management Committee. He has been leading the Operations service line at the global level since 2019 and is a well-respected senior leader in the industry. Kay has a successful track record in consumer goods and retail and leverages his expertise to develop BearingPoint’s consulting portfolio. He joined the firm as a Partner in 2007.

Eric Conway has assumed the global Marketing sponsorship in addition to his role as leader for the GROW region (Denmark, Finland, Ireland, Italy, Norway, the Netherlands, Sweden, and the UK). Eric is responsible for advancing the firm’s business and fostering sustainable, profitable growth. He has a passion for collaboration, teamwork, and creating an environment that supports high performance. Eric has worked in a variety of segments and with some of the best-known telecommunication and media brands, in addition to many leading banks and insurance firms and a range of commercial bodies, delivering successful consulting programs across the entire value chain and developing long-term relationships with key clients in the process. He has been a Partner at BearingPoint since 2015.

Iris Grewe took over the role of leader for APAC in addition to her responsibility as regional leader for Germany, Switzerland, and Austria and she is also responsible for the firm’s consulting ecosystem. As Partner, Iris has been leading business strategy, transformation and integration projects and programs across Europe, APAC and the US for over 20 years. Together with her team, she works with clients to tackle digital and regulatory change as well as operational excellence in the Financial Services arena and beyond. In her regional role, she focuses on enabling the seamless interaction between client markets, business portfolio and practice operations together with the country teams. She was promoted to Partner in 2010, served on the Partnership Board from 2014-2016, joined the Swiss Management Board in 2015 and the global Management Committee in 2017.

Damien Palacci has assumed the role of Chief People & Transformation Officer. The previous role of Chief People Officer has been expanded to Chief People & Transformation Officer as BearingPoint aims to be at the forefront of consulting industry transformation. Damien is responsible for implementing the firm-wide people strategy, vital to the business objectives and growth plans of the firm. He focuses on the effective organization and deployment of BearingPoint’s people and the realization of their full potential. As Transformation Officer, Damien is responsible for leveraging new capabilities such as artificial intelligence and engaging further with BearingPoint’s ecosystem of international technology alliances, start-ups, and internal transformation programs. With the firm for 27 years, Damien has been the global leader for Portfolio and Innovation and a member of the Management Committee since 2019. He became a Partner at BearingPoint in 2009.

Stephan Weber took over the role of Chief Operating Officer. In his role, he enables operational excellence across the firm and takes BearingPoint’s systems to the next level. Focusing on managing day-to-day operations, Stephan optimizes the firm’s delivery approach and utilization. He is responsible for the BearingPoint support functions, their quality, and efficiency. In addition to that, Stephan also leads the firm’s cross-shore-enablement hub. Stephan joined the Management Committee in 2019 and has been with BearingPoint since 1997. He became a Partner in 2009.

In summary, the management committee now consists of 11 top executives with Matthias Loebich at the helm: Global Management Team | BearingPoint.

“We will continue running our business with a structure that supports our go-to-market across the globe in a powerful and client-focused way. The new leadership builds on our commitment to creating lasting outcomes for our clients and empowering people to succeed. Based on this commitment, our strategic cornerstones are genuine client orientation, people empowerment, differentiation through innovative products, and leveraging global synergies. A key focus will be harnessing the power of our global presence and relevance to elevate the value we bring to clients. I am very much looking forward to working with all of our people to roll out our Strategy 2030,” said Matthias Loebich, Managing Partner BearingPoint.

About BearingPoint

BearingPoint is an independent management and technology consultancy with European roots and a global reach. The company operates in three business units: Consulting, Products, and Capital. Consulting covers the advisory business with a clear focus on selected business areas. Products provides IP-driven digital assets and managed services for business-critical processes. Capital delivers M&A and transaction services.

BearingPoint’s clients include many of the world’s leading companies and organizations. The firm has a global consulting network with more than 10,000 people and supports clients in over 70 countries, engaging with them to achieve measurable and sustainable success.

BearingPoint is a certified B Corporation, meeting high standards of social and environmental impact.

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New Zealand's founding treaty is at a flashpoint. Why are thousands protesting for Māori rights?

2024-11-19 15:40 Last Updated At：15:50

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — A proposed law that would redefine New Zealand’s founding treaty between the British Crown and Māori chiefs has triggered political turmoil and prompted tens of thousands of people to show up in protest at the country's Parliament on Tuesday.

The bill is never expected to become law. But it has become a flashpoint on race relations and a critical moment in the fraught 180-year-old conversation about how New Zealand should honor its promises to Indigenous people when the country was colonized -– and what those promises are.

A huge crowd gathered in the capital, Wellington, on Tuesday morning for the final stretch of a weeklong protest that has spanned the length of the country — a march through the city streets to Parliament. It follows a Māori tradition of hīkoi, or walking, to bring attention to breaches of the 1840 Treaty of Waitangi — and is likely to be the largest treaty rights demonstration in the history of modern New Zealand.

Considered New Zealand’s founding document, the treaty was signed between representatives of the British Crown and 500 Māori chiefs during colonization. It laid out principles guiding the relationship between the Crown and Māori, in two versions -– one in English and the other in Māori.

It promised Māori the rights and privileges of British citizens, but the English and Māori versions differed on what power the chiefs were ceding over their affairs, lands and autonomy.

Over decades, the Crown breached both versions. By the mid-20th century, Māori language and culture had dwindled -– Indigenous people were often barred from practicing it -- tribal land was confiscated and Māori were disadvantaged in many metrics.

Prompted by a surging Māori protest movement, for the past 50 years the courts of New Zealand, lawmakers and the Waitangi Tribunal -– a permanent body set up to adjudicate treaty matters -– have navigated the differences in the treaty’s versions and tried to redress breaches by constructing the meaning of the treaty's principles in their decisions.

Those principles are intended to be flexible but are commonly described as partnership with the Crown, protection of Māori interests and participation in decision-making.

While Māori remain disenfranchised in many ways, the weaving of treaty recognition through law and attempts at redress have changed the fabric of society since then. Māori language has experienced a renaissance, and everyday words are now commonplace -– even among non-Māori. Policies have been enacted to target disparities Māori commonly face.

Billions of dollars in settlements have been negotiated between the Crown and tribes for breaches of the treaty, particularly the widespread expropriation of Māori land and natural resources.

Some New Zealanders, however, are unhappy with redress. They have found a champion in lawmaker David Seymour, the leader of a minor libertarian political party which won less than 9% of the vote in last year’s election -– but scored outsized influence for its agenda as part of a governing agreement.

Seymour‘s proposed law would set specific definitions of the treaty’s principles, and would apply them to all New Zealanders, not only to Māori. He says piecemeal construction of the treaty’s meaning has left a vacuum and has given Māori special treatment.

His bill is widely opposed — by left- and right-wing former prime ministers, 40 of the country’s most senior lawyers, and thousands of Māori and non-Māori New Zealanders who are walking the length of the country in protest.

Seymour’s bill is not expected to pass its final reading. It cleared a first vote on Thursday due to a political deal, but most of those who endorsed it are not expected to do so again.

Detractors say the bill threatens constitutional upheaval and would remove rights promised in the treaty that are now enshrined in law. Critics have also lambasted Seymour -– who is Māori -– for provoking backlash against Indigenous people.

Peaceful walking protests are a Māori tradition and have occurred before at crucial times during the national conversation about treaty rights.

Police in the country of 5 million estimated that more than 40,000 people thronged Parliament's grounds on Tuesday after a march through the central city that shut down streets and drew thousands more onlookers, many holding signs in support of the protesters.

As those outside Parliament waved flags, sang Māori songs and listened to speeches, crowds who could not squeeze onto the grounds spilled onto the surrounding streets, which remained closed to traffic.

Many are marching to oppose Seymour’s bill. But others are protesting a range of policies from the center-right government on Māori affairs -– including an order, prompted by Seymour, that public agencies should no longer target policies to specifically redress Māori inequities.

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