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Ronald Hafner

CEO, Partner, Member of the Executive Board
ronald.hafner@lodestonemc.com
Master in Economics and Business Administration from the University of Basel

Key skill areas:
Program Management, Organizational Design, IT/ERP Strategy, Outsourcing/Off-shoring Strategy

Professional background:
2002 - 2005 IBM Global Service, Senior Executive
1996 - 2002 PricewaterhouseCoopers, Partner
1995 - 1996 McKinsey, Engagement Manager
Over 20 years of experience in advising multinational corporations on Business and IT Strategy. Clients include companies from different industries notably Industrial (Ciba, Schindler), Consumer Goods (Nestlé) and Pharmaceuticals. Deep expertise in advising international companies on large business transformation programs enabled by SAP. Extensive experience in program management – both in internal as well external roles which span project delivery, overall program control and management.

Jürgen Bauer

Partner, Member of the Executive Board
juergen.bauer@lodestonemc.com
Masters degree in Business Administration and Engineering from the University of Applied Sciences (Munich)

Key skill areas:
Program Management, IT Strategy and Governance, Enterprise Architecture and SAP Solution Definition, Supply Chain Management.

Professional background:
2002 - 2005 IBM Global Service, Senior Executive, Switzerland
1992 - 2002 PricewaterhouseCoopers, Partner, Germany, USA, Switzerland
16 years of management consulting experience for multinational corporations. He worked for clients in life sciences (Novartis, Roche, Serono, Sandoz, Warner Lambert), high tech (i.e. Intel, Siemens, AEG) and telecommunications (i.e. Deutsche Telekom). Jürgen has profound expertise in advising international corporations on ERP enabled business transformation programs and Enterprise Architecture Design. Jürgen is respected as a trusted advisor to his client executives. He has many years of global management responsibility for consulting services and leads the North American Practice of Lodestone.

Michael Stein

Partner, Member of the Executive Board
michael.stein@lodestonemc.com
Masters degree in Business Administration focused on Computer Science and Logistics, Germany

Key skill areas:
Process and Discrete Manufacturing, IT Organization and Governance, Program Management for large ERP Programs, Quality Assurance

Professional background:
1997 - 2006 Mutaris Consulting GmbH, General Manager
1993 - 1997 Andersen Consulting, Senior Consultant
Michael Stein worked as advisor for group wide ERP activities (Novartis), as engagement partner for Global SAP Implementations (Sandoz, Novartis), as advisor for the set-up and run of global SAP Competency Centers (Roche, Novartis) and in various roles in SAP implementation projects across industries (e.g. ABB, Deutsche Bahn, SR Technics).

Peter Ödman

Partner, Member of the Executive Board
peter.oedman@lodestonemc.com
Master in Business Administration from the University of St. Gallen

Key skill areas:
Program Management, Finance Transformation, Enterprise Architecture and SAP Solution and Implementation, Financial Services Industry

Professional background:
2002 - 2005 IBM Global Services, Senior Executive
1992 - 2002 PricewaterhouseCoopers, Partner
Peter Ödman has many years of consulting experience in the financial services industry by being responsible for architecting and delivering large, complex and international finance transformation programs. His main clients are Allianz Group, Zurich Financial Services Group and UBS. He is respected by his clients, has worked extensively across all continents and is responsible for Lodestone’s Asia Pacific practices.