Roland Berger

Roland Berger ( born November 22, 1937 in Berlin ) is a German entrepreneur and business and policy advisors. Berger is the founder and honorary chairman of the board of management consultancy Roland Berger Strategy Consultants.

Life

Roland Berger was born the son of Bavarian parents in Berlin in 1937. His father George L. Berger was general manager of a food company and until 1938 temporarily Ministerial Counsellor in the Ministry of Economics. After Kristallnacht, the father of the Nazi Party came out, later he was 1944/45, briefly detained in Dachau concentration camp. His mother worked as a managing director at the general store his grandparents, and later in a furniture company.

After primary school in Vienna and Egglkofen the school visit was followed in Landshut, Munich and Nuremberg, where he finished 1956, the new high school diploma at the grammar Nuremberg. He studied in Hamburg and Munich Business Administration, in addition to studying, he ran a laundry service with 15 employees last. In 1962 he graduated with a degree in business administration at the Ludwig- Maximilians- University of Munich as valedictorian. His Laundry in 1962 he could sell for 600,000 DM.

From 1962 to 1967 Berger worked as a consultant with the Boston Consulting Group, first in Boston, later in Milan, then he went in 1967 as a management consultant in Munich independently and founded the predecessor company of today's Roland Berger Strategy Consultants.

Was a great success for him in 1968, the recommendation to establish from the company TOUROPA, Scharnow, Hummel and Dr. Tigges the travel company TUI, due to its forecast of an extraordinary increase in charter flights. The opening of the Milan branch 1969 Berger sat now on the internationalization of its consulting activities, the company now operates worldwide. Increasingly, he also won state institutions as customers.

The German bank was bought in 1988 for about 100 million marks a 75.1 percent stake in " Roland Berger & Partner GmbH International Management Consulting ". In 1997, the bank then increased its holding to 95 percent. A year later, Berger bought with his employees the company back.

From 2003 to 2010, the company Roland Berger Strategy Consultants was headed by Burkhard Schwenker, since 2010 by Martin C. Wittig. Roland Berger himself from 2003 to 2010 Chairman of the Supervisory Board of the company. 2010 took over this office swivel and Berger was elected Honorary Chairman of the Supervisory Board.

He is a lecturer at the Technical University of Munich and is an honorary professor of the BTU Cottbus.

Since 1996, Roland Berger is a lecturer as a visiting professor and since 2000 Honorary Professor of Business and Management Consulting at the Brandenburg Technical University of Cottbus. He serves on the University Council of the Ludwig- Maximilians- University of Munich, the Council of the University for Music and Theater in Munich, the Board of Trustees of the Zeppelin University in Friedrichshafen and the Advisory Council of INSEAD business school in Fontainebleau, France. In addition, Roland Berger is the Board of Trustees of the Ifo Institute - Leibniz Institute for Economic Research at the University of Munich active and CEO of Society for the Promotion of economic research ( Friends of the Ifo Institute eV ), Munich.

Roland Berger is with the journalist Karin Berger, born Gottschalk, married and has two sons, Mark and Oliver, both of which are an entrepreneur. Berger lives with his wife in Bogenhausen, both are heavily involved in the cultural life of the capital of the Free State. Berger is a music lover and is also interested in historical and political literature. His wife shares his passion and is involved in the board of trustees about the Funding Munich Opera Festival, the Old and New Pinakothek and in cultural institutions in Berlin, Vienna and Lucerne.

The private assets Roland Berger is estimated at " a high three -digit million amount ."

River Rock European Capital Partners LLP

Roland Berger is Chairman of River Rock European Capital Partners LLP, an investment company that offers capital solutions primarily for small and medium-sized European companies in various industries. Current sole shareholder of River Rock, in addition to Roland Berger Florian Lahnstein and Jason Carley 1 December 2012 came Péretie Michel, ex -CEO of Société Générale SGCIB, as equal partners involved and Co-CEO it. The Supervisory Board includes, among others, Wolfgang Clement, Manfred Lahnstein and Mark Woessner. River Rock was founded in 2009 from the Berger Lahnstein Middelhoff & Partners LLP. produced, which was split in 2010 into two companies legally and economically independent. Roland Berger remained Chairman of BLM, which continues the product lines " SPAC " (Special Purpose Acquisition Company) and mutual funds. The hedge fund activities were spun off into a new company called "Pulse Capital Partners " with Thomas Middelhoff as chairman and founding partner.

Negotiator for the Federal Ministry of Economics

Roland Berger became involved in 2009 as an unpaid Negotiator for the Federal Economics Ministry to find private investors for the rescue of the ailing Adam Opel GmbH. This commitment was criticized because since May 2006 Berger is a member of the fifteen -member Executive Committee Board of Directors (Supervisory Board) of the Italian car company Fiat. He denied a conflict of interest or bias in favor of Fiat with the note, to receive no payment from any of the parties and also to be open to a collaboration of Opel with the Austrian automotive supplier Magna.

Roland Berger Foundation

2008 Berger founded the Roland Berger Foundation, the Roland Berger Human Dignity Award and scholarships for socially disadvantaged young people annually awards. The Foundation's capital amounts to 50 million euros. 2008 Berger founded the Roland Berger Foundation, which is headquartered in Munich. The Foundation is equipped with an endowment of EUR 50 million from the personal assets of the founder and a double purpose: With the worth one million euros ' Roland Berger Human Dignity Award ' records the foundation individuals and organizations from around the world, which in a special way have made and successfully earned the protection of human rights and human dignity. The German student scholarship the Roland Berger Foundation promotes nationwide talented children and young people from socially disadvantaged families. Each student receives an individual support plan that covers ten learning areas, and is accompanied by a volunteer mentor on his way to high school. Currently supported Germany's 520 pupils.

Roland Berger Art Collection

Since the early years of his consulting firm Roland Berger drives the development of its own art collection - The Roland Berger Art Collection - ahead. His wife Karin makes today, firmly linked with museums, galleries and artists, for the continuous expansion. The collection now comprises some 1,000 works. It deals with the contemporary intellectual and aesthetic trends and sees itself as part of the social commitment of Roland Berger.

Others commitment

Roland Berger is committed New Social Market Economy in the employer-sponsored association of total metal lobbying organization initiative that stands up for liberal economic reforms. Furthermore, Berger has been active in the Supervisory Board of the Wittelsbach Compensation Fund. Berger has the function of Chairman Germany at the Blackstone Group, the International Advisory Board. Blackstone was counted among the so-called locusts in 2006 by the national SPD chairman Franz Müntefering. In addition, Berger is Honorary Consul General of the Republic of Finland in the states of Bavaria and Thuringia. He is a member of the Rotary Club Munich -Harlaching. In May 2008, Roland Berger was elected Co. KGaA in the Supervisory Board of Fresenius SE &. By December 2009, Berger was a member of the Board of FC Bayern Munich. Since September 2012 Berger is a member of the Commission for Future Generations of the Oxford Martin School at the University of Oxford. The Commission, which also Nobel Prize winner Amartya Sen and Lord Stern, and Jean -Claude Trichet, Robert Zoellick, Arianna Huffington, among others belonging, develops solutions for urgent issues of the future, of the population ¬ development and aging via resource scarcity, food security and technology development to migration and growing income and social imbalances. The final report with concrete recommendations for the decision-makers in politics, science, business and culture should be available in the fourth quarter of 2013.

In June 2010, Berger was to chair the Supervisory Board of Roland Berger Strategy Consultants and was honorary chairman. As the successor moved in August 2010 after the previous CEO Burkhard Schwenker, the former CFO Martin Wittig took over as CEO.

He is also a member of the jury at the "Top 100 ", the award for the most innovative companies in the German Mittelstand. With expert knowledge of practice he decides with which company " Innovator of the Year".

Awards

Writings (excerpt)

• Ulrich Steger (ed.): Towards a European corporate governance. A reading book for managers and Europeans. Beck, Munich 1998, ISBN 3-406-41930-5
• Peter Gillies: shear forces. The new German economic miracle and its makers. Edition Ferenczy at Bruckmann, Munich 1992
• Armin Töpfer: business success in the European internal market. Verlag Moderne Industrie, Landsberg am Lech, 1990, ISBN 3478316405