Burkhard Schwenker

Burkhard Schwenker ( born April 20, 1958 in Minden ) is a German management consultant. At first he was from August 2003 to July 2010 Managing Director of strategy consulting firm Roland Berger Strategy Consultants, then to May 2013 Chairman of the Supervisory Board and has since been re- Managing Director of the Company. Since September 2010, he also heads the Roland Berger Foundation as CEO.

Life

Swivel studied mathematics and economics at the University of Bielefeld. He started his career as assistant to the board PWA paper Waldhof -Aschaffenburg AG. From 1986 to 1989 he was a research associate with Rolf Wolff at Northern University in Flensburg. Here he graduated in 1989 from his business doctorate on the subject of service companies in the competition and was due to the closure of the Nordic University doctoral student whose only. In the same year, he joined Roland Berger Strategy Consultants.

1992 Schwenker was elected partner of the company and, in 1994, the leadership of the Competence Center Corporate Development. In 1998, he led the negotiations of the partners of the company with Deutsche Bank on the management buyout of Roland Berger Strategy Consultants. 2003 Schwenker was elected Chairman of the Executive Committee of Roland Berger Strategy Consultants and confirms the end of 2006 for a further term of the partners. From July 2010 Schwenker was Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Roland Berger Strategy Consultants, before he was elected Chairman of the Executive Committee again on May 4, 2013. In 2008 he was appointed by the Leipzig Graduate School of honorary professor. Since 2009, Schwenker, together with Torsten Wulf Academic Director of the HHL Center for Scenario Planning. He is also a board member of the Association of the German Academic Association for Business Research (VHB ) and member of the University Council of the Technical University of Freiberg and the trustees of the Dresden International University ( DIU ) and the EBS University of Business and Law. Burkhard Schwenker is also a Visiting Fellow at the Saïd Business School at Oxford University. In February 2012, he was appointed Chairman of the newly established School of Roland Berger Strategy and Economics ( RBSE ).

Burkhard Schwenker is married, has three children and lives in Hamburg.

Socio-political commitment

Since September 1, 2010 is Burkhard Schwenker the Roland Berger Foundation. The Foundation awards scholarships to underprivileged children and young people and gives the Roland Berger Human Dignity Award. Swivel also supports the Federation of German Women Entrepreneurs ( VdU ) for their project " Strengthening the presence of women on supervisory bodies'. He also sits on the Advisory Board of the German Society for financial and budgetary policy. This company has made ​​it its mission to promote the fiscal education of the Germans. In enable2start, an award from the Financial Times Germany for innovative company founder, Camera was one of the jury members. In addition, Burkhard Schwenker eV sits in the Board of Trustees of berufundfamile gGmbh, an initiative of the non-profit Hertie Foundation and the values ​​Commission. Concerning the environment, Burkhard Schwenker committed to the WWF. He is also vice chairman of the association Atlantik-Brücke eV

26 September 2011 Burkhard Schwenker was elected to the board of the Hamburg Symphony Orchestra. The Symphony Orchestra is a registered charity and is led by Artistic Director Daniel Kühnel. In November 2011, Burkhard Schwenker was also a member of a 21 - member jury, which chose the 60 key movers and shakers of the energy transition in cooperation with the business week.

Burkhard Schwenker is patron of the book project "Jewish soldiers - Jewish resistance." In his opinion, the book offers historical experiences that could be the formation of a European community of values ​​based.

European Engagement

Swivel regarded as proponents of a " European" values-based and sustainable management approach. He is CEO of Roland Berger Strategy Consultants and initiator and jury member of " Best of European Business". With the BEB Award European companies will be honored, which have achieved outstanding economic results. In addition, Swivel Board of the Roland Berger Foundation for European corporate governance. Swivel is a guest author in various business magazines on European issues

Publications

Burkhard Schwenker is editor of the think: act CONTENT of Roland Berger Strategy Consultants and author of books on various business and management topics.

  • Burkhard Schwenker: service company in competition: market dynamics and strategic development lines. German University Verlag, Wiesbaden, 1989, ISBN 3-8244-0033-2.
  • Burkhard Schwenker, Stefan Bötzel: On course for growth: Success through expansion and increased efficiency Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg / New York 2006, ISBN 978-3-540-26755-3
  • Burkhard Schwenker, Klaus Spremann: Entrepreneurial thinking between Strategy and Finance: The Four Seasons of Business Springer Verlag, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3540759508.
  • Burkhard Schwenker: re: think CEO 01 Strategic thinking - Courageous lead BrunoMedia, Köln 2008, ISBN 978-3981150667
  • Burkhard Schwenker, Klaus Spremann: in between management strategy and finance: the four seasons of business Springer Verlag, Berlin / Heidelberg, 2009, ISBN 978-3-540-85274-2
  • Burkhard Schwenker: re: think CEO 04 Europe leads! Plea for a successful management model BrunoMedia, Cologne 2011, ISBN 978-3-9814012-6-4
  • Burkhard Schwenker, Mario Müller- Dofel: Good leadership - Over the life cycle of companies. BrunoMedia, Cologne 2012, ISBN 3,943,442,004th
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