Profile Prof. Dr. Klaus-Dieter Maier
Klaus-Dieter Maier has a 25 year track record in high value Adding Management Consulting in Europe, North America and Asia combined with a long standing experience in teaching and lecturing.
Key competence areas are Strategic Management combined with Planning, Organization and International Marketing.
He spend several years of his professional career abroad and worked out of offices in Dusseldorf, Zurich, Dallas, Singapore and Stuttgart.
Klaus-Dieter Maier is 58 years old and has three children.
Academic Education
Diplom-Kaufmann 1975, University of Mannheim
Dr. rer. pol. 1979, University of Stuttgart
Sports
Several Vice-Championships in Rowing 1971 - 1973
Member of the Pre-Olympic National Team 1972
Professional Career
Statistical Expert at the Sonderforschungsbereich 24 1973 - 1975, University of Mannheim
Research Associate 1975 - 1978, University of Stuttgart
Finance and Treasury 1975 - 1978, Fried. Krupp Industrietechnik
A. T. Kearney Management Consultants 1979 - 2002 www.atkearney.com
Elected Principal 1987
Elected Officer and Partner 1990
Member of the Senior Leadership Team 2000 - 2002
Bain & Company Company 2002 - 2003
www.bain.com
Director and Partner
Special Background and Experience
Industries
Functional Studies and Projects
Automotive OEM´s
Sales and Distribution Channel Redesign
Automotive Suppliers
Innovation Management
Branded Consumer Products
Market Entry Evaluation Overseas
Energy
Merger and Post-Merger-Integration Support
Mechanical and Electrical Engineering
Restructuring and Factory Relocation
Metals (Ferrous and Non-Ferrous)
M & A Management
Teaching Experience
Tutor for Cost Accounting
1973 - 1975 University of Mannheim
Founding Lecturer
1975 - 1978 Berufsakademie Baden-Württemberg
Invited Speaker
1996 - 2009 Handelsblatt; Adam-Smith-Institute-Conferences; Economic Institutes of Universities Stuttgart and Karlsruhe
