Lodestone Management Consultants makes key appointments and expands activities in Germany

Lodestone Management Consultants GmbH continues to enhance its commitment to Germany expanding its activities in the German market and appointing new partners.

Lodestone announces with great pleasure the promotions of Thorsten Drechsler, Markus Gierschmann and Stefan Kerner to Partner, effective 1 July 2008. Thorsten Drechsler has broad experiences in the consulting industry with a strong background in Industrial Equipment, Automotive, Communication and High Tech. Markus Gierschmann has a background in Finance Transformation projects and is an experienced project manager of large international SAP implementations. He will relocate from Switzerland to Germany during July 2008. Stephan Kerner’s key focus is within Consumer Products and Business Process Transformation. 

Effective 1 July 2008 also, Andreas Lannes and Prof. Dr. Johannes Siedersleben joined Lodestone as Partners from the Systems Integration Division of T-Systems. Andreas Lannes has significant experience in project management of large scale Systems Integrations programs. Prof. Dr Siedersleben’s core competence is in the management of ERP and CRM projects and IT Architecture. Andreas Lannes will take a lead role in the management of Lodestone Germany reporting directly into the global headquarters in Zürich, Switzerland.

"We are pleased to welcome these colleagues into our partnership. This is a particularly exciting time to be joining Lodestone as a partner: the opportunities are immense, only matched by our own ambitious growth goals. We know that with the energy and talent of our new partners these goals are achievable”, says CEO Ronald Hafner