In 1998, Dr. Jan Burgard (1973) began his career with the investment bank Man Group in New York, USA, and the family-owned enterprise portfolio firm May Holding in Cologne, Germany, where he was in charge of operations. Subsequently, he joined Mercer Management Consulting in Munich, Germany, as a consultant in 2000.

After completing his doctorate and further consulting activities at Oliver Wyman (formerly Mercer Management Consulting), Jan Burgard was appointed manager at Audi where he was responsible for implementing Audi Connect at the sales and retail levels. Since October 2011, he has complemented the group of founding partners of Berylls Strategy Advisors. The focus of his consulting work lies in digitalization strategies, big data, artificial intelligence, and the end-to-end implementation of digital products.

Business administration and economics studies at the University of Siegen, Germany; doctoral studies at Johannes Kepler University, Linz, Austria.

Dr. Jan Dannenberg (1962) has more than 25 years of consulting experience in the automotive industry, and became a founding partner of Berylls Strategy Advisors in May 2011. Until spring 2011, he worked with Mercer Management Consulting and Oliver Wyman in Munich, Germany, on international projects – for five years as Associate Partner, and another three years as Partner. He is a recognized specialist in innovation and brand management in the automotive industry, and primarily advises suppliers and investors on strategy and M&A.

Bachelor of Arts in economics at Stanford University, USA; business administration and doctorate degree at the University of Bamberg, Germany.

Peter Eltze (1964) joined Berylls Strategy Advisors as a Partner in November 2015. He began his career in the medical technology division of an integrated technology corporation, and became a project manager at Malik Management Zentrum St. Gallen in 1996 before being appointed Partner in 2001. From 2003, in his role as member of the executive board, he was in charge of Management Education & Development. For almost two decades now, Peter Eltze has advised companies in the automotive and mechanical engineering industries. At Berylls, his consulting activities focus on integrated organizational development (strategy, structure, culture), transformation management, and executive development.

Education in wholesale and international trade; administrative sciences at the University of Constance, Germany.

Dr. Matthias Kempf (1974) was one of the founding partners of Berylls Strategy Advisors in August 2011. He began his career with Mercer Management Consulting in Munich, Germany, in 2000. After earning his doctorate degree and further consulting work at Oliver Wyman (formerly Mercer Management Consulting), he joined the management of Hilti Germany in 2008. At Berylls, his area of expertise is new mobility services. In addition, he is an expert in developing and implementing new digital business models, and in the digitalization of sales and after sales.

Industrial engineering and management studies at the University of Karlsruhe, Germany, doctorate degree at Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich, Germany.

Arthur Kipferler (1963) started his career in 1989 working for the Boston Consulting Group for 13 years, where he primarily focused on the automotive industry. After leaving the consulting business, Arthur Kipferler held senior management positions at Toyota in Europe and the U.S. From 2013 to 2014, he was global head of the BMW Group’s Future Retail program. Subsequently, he had a leading role in strategy and corporate planning at Jaguar Land Rover in Coventry, UK. Arthur Kipferler complements the expertise of the Berylls partner team in the fields of sales, digitalization, as well as in the development and implementation of corporate, product, and regional strategies.

Mechanical engineering, production engineering, at the Technical University of Munich (TUM); MBA in Strategy, Marketing and Organizational Behavior at INSEAD Business School,France.

Andreas Radics (1973) has been advising the automotive industry as a consultant for more than 14 years. In addition, he can look back on over four years of professional and management experience in industry. Before co-founding and building up Berylls Strategy Advisors in 2011 as one of its Partners, he worked at Gemini Consulting and Oliver Wyman, two international strategy consulting firms.

Besides being one of the leading subject-matter experts in Mergers & Acquisitions as well as in the development and implementation of corporate strategies in the automotive industry, he is an expert in e-mobility.

Business administration degree at Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt, Business Administration Faculty, Ingolstadt, Germany.

Jonas Wagner (1978) joined the Berylls team in October 2011. Prior to that, he worked with Oliver Wyman, most recently as Senior Associate for automotive OEMs and suppliers. He mainly specializes insales strategies and new business strategies for OEMs, focusing primarily on conceptual work along the entire customer journey right up to implementation inretail. This includes sales & marketing, after sales as well as financial services.

Business administration studies at Aarhus School of Business (Business Administration), Denmark, and at the University of Mannheim, Germany; degree in business administration, focus on International Management, Marketing and Controlling.

Michael Bang (1971) has more than 14 years of management consulting and three years of automotive industry experience. He joined as a Managing Director in January 2018 and leads the Berylls office in Seoul, Korea. Prior to Berylls he worked as a Principal at Arthur D. Little and Deloitte Consulting, and at the automotive supplier Mando as a Research Engineer. He specializes on Brand Strategy, Sales and Marketing, E-Mobility, as well as Product Strategies for OEMs and automotive suppliers.

Bachelor and Master of Science from Yonsei University, Seoul/ Korea, and MBA from MIT Sloan School of Management, Cambridge/ USA.

Willy Lu Wang (1981) joined Berylls Strategy Advisors in 2017. He started his career participating in the graduate program of Audi focusing on production planning. After stations at another strategy consultancy as well as being the strategy director for a German Tier-1 supplier, he is now responsible for the China business at Berylls. He has a broad consulting focus working for all clients in China, whether they are JVs, WOFEs or pure local players. He is also responsible for the development of AI and Big Data products dedicated towards the Chinese market further strengthening the Berylls End-to-End strategy and product development capabilities.

Willy studied Electronics & Information Technology with focus on Systems and Software Engineering and Control Theory at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology.

Michael Beckmann (1984) joined the Berylls Strategy Advisors team in January 2015. Since 2008 he has been working as a consultant and started his career at Booz & Company. Since returning from an MBA in 2012, he has focused on strategic issues and portfolio decisions in the supply industry, including M&A activities.In addition, he´s working on the performance measurement of multi-channel sales activities for OEMs and the effects of global trends on the supply industry.

Studied business administration at the European Business School, Oestrich Winkel and MBA at INSEAD, Fontainebleau/Singapore.

Malte Broxtermann (1986) joined the team of Berylls Strategy Advisors in 2014. After extensive experience as emergency medical technician, he has been working in consulting since 2012. His focus on development of digital strategies & products spans across the entire automotive value chain. He is an expert in planning & implementation of big data- and AI-powered applications and ensures strategic alignment with Berylls’ own unit for implementation of digital solutions, Berylls Digital Ventures.

Studied economics and international business at Maastricht University (Netherlands) and Queen’s University (Canada).

Dr. Frank Heines (1967) joined Berylls Strategy Advisors as Principal in September 2016, and is based at Berylls’ Swiss office. He started his career at the postal automation division of Siemens AG before changing to a medium-sized electrical and electronics company where, in his positionas member of the board, he soon became responsible for the technical department. In 2003, he began his consulting career at the Malik Management Zentrum St. Gallen, becoming Partner and member of the group management board in 2007. The focus of his consulting work lies in strategy development, organizational design, productivity increase as well as in integrated organizational development and transformational management.

Economics at the University of Constance, Germany; business administration at the University of Zurich; Ph.D. at the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland.

Tobias Keil (1979) joined Berylls Strategy Advisors team in 2011 when it was founded. He started his professional career in 2007 at Oliver Wyman in Munich, where he worked in the automotive practice for automotive suppliers, OEMs and financial investors. His consulting focuses on strategy development and implementation for automotive suppliers as well as mergers & acquisitions for strategists and financial investors.

Trained as a bank clerk at Berenberg Bank in Hamburg, studied business administration at the University of Passau.

Christian Kick (1987) is part of the Berylls team since May 2014. He started his career in management consulting at Booz & Company’s Munich office in 2011. As an experienced consultant in Marketing & Sales, he covers all automotive downstream activities, predominantly in the premium and luxury segments. He is not only passionate about developing innovative marketing and sales strategies, but also unlocking their potential through focused operationalization. Additionally, he focuses on Customer Experience and Customer Journey design as well as data-driven products in automotive marketing and sales.

Studied International Business at ESB Reutlingen; MBA from Portland State University, Oregon.