Raymond is based in our office in Paris. His professional focus lies on industrial strategy and organization, restructuring, global efficiency programs, operations and supply chain management, R&D organization and product development in the automotive industry. Raymond is a French Civil Mines Engineer specialized in metallurgy with a 37 years industrial operational and consulting experience.

Kurt Baes is an Associate Director in Arthur D. Little's Brussels office and responsible for the Operations Management practice in the Benelux. Prior to that, he has managed Arthur D. Little's Shanghai office during three years. Kurt has gained over thirteen years of strategy and operations management consulting experience in Europe and Asia / China, mainly in the Energy / Utilities, Manufacturing and Chemicals industries. His area of expertise covers market strategy, organisation diagnostic and redesign, change management, post-merger integration, risk and portfolio management, strategic sourcing and overall performance improvement. He is a Belgian national with an MSc degree from K.U.Leuven and an MBA from Cornel University (New York), and speaks Dutch, French, English and German.

Andreas is located in our office in Wiesbaden. The focus of his consulting work lies on strategy and organization design, on R&D efficiency management and on optimization of after sales processes in the automotive industry. Andreas has twelve years consulting experience. He holds a Master in industrial engineering and management and received a Ph.D. (Dr.-Ing.) from the Technical University of Kaiserslautern.

Yusuke is based in Arthur D. Little's Tokyo office. His professional focus is on strategic planning and organisation. He has major industry experience in the manufacturing and high-technology industries as well as in the automotive industry. Yusuke holds a B.E. in Metallurgy and in Material Science from the Tokyo Institute of Technology, an M.S. in Technology and Policy from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T.) and an M.S. in International Business Management from M.I.T’s Sloan School of Management.

Stefan is Director in the Automotive and Manufacturing Group and based in Munich. His professional focus is in technology and innovation mangament, operations management and restructuring with extensive experience in the automotive and aerospace industry as well as in telecom equipment. Stefan has an M.Sc. in Materials Science from the University of Leoben.

Marco is based in our office in Milan. He has major consulting experience in supply chain management, procurement excellence and strategic change management in the aerospace and defence, telecoms, postal services and pharma and health care businesses. He holds a degree in Electronic Engineering and a Master in Business Administration from the Politecnico di Milano.