Martin C. Wittig

Martin C. Wittig ( born January 20, 1964) was until May 2013 CEO of the company and strategy consulting firm Roland Berger Strategy Consultants.

Life

Martin C. Wittig studied mining engineering science and business administration at the RWTH Aachen. In mining, he earned a degree. Already during his studies he worked as a miner. In 1995 he received his doctorate with a thesis on planning alternatives in mining engineering at the Technical University of Berlin.

In 1995 he joined Roland Berger Strategy Consultants, as he sat by chance on a flight next to Roland Berger. In 1999 he was elected as a partner. Since January 2001, he served as Managing Partner and Director of the subsidiary in Zurich. During his tenure as director, he built the then small Zurich office to number three in the market. In July 2003, Wittig was in the Corporate Senior Vice President ( Global Executive Committee, EC ) elected by Roland Berger and 2004, Chief Financial Officer ( CFO). 2006 confirmed him the perfect partner for a second term. Wittig was elected in July 2010 unanimously by 180 Partners as its new chairman. By Roland Berger Wittig is particularly appreciated for his skills as an entrepreneur and communicator. 2013 Burkhard Schwenker became his successor.

Martin Wittig has held since 2007 a ​​lecturer at the University of St. Gallen, Institute for Public Services and Tourism, where he is a lecturer in research methodology.

Privately, he collects art and is committed to socio-political organizations and associations. He sits example, the board of the Association for the Promotion of the Swiss Institute for Art Research.

Wittig is married and lives with his wife and male twins in Herrliberg in the Canton of Zurich ( Switzerland ). He also takes the work as Honorary Consul of the Federal Republic of Germany for Switzerland, more precisely for the cantons of Schwyz and Zurich, true.

Works

• Martin Christof Wittig: A model for the assessment of planning alternatives in the mining industry through the integration of knowledge- DV techniques and CAD, the example shows the blank of construction areas in underground coal mining. Shaker, Aachen, 1995, ISBN 3-8265-1175-1 ( At the same time dissertation Technical University of Berlin).