Petter is a Director at Arthur D. Little’s office in Stockholm. He is the Global Strategy & Organization and Corporate Finance Practice Leader. He is affiliated to the TIME, Health Care and Public Sector practices. His professional focus is on strategy & organization and financial advice to private equity and industrial investors pre and post transactions (e.g. due diligence, valuation, strategy, change management, post merger integration) and governance issues faced by corporations, investors, governments and multi-lateral organizations. Petter holds a Master of Science in Economics and Business Administration from the Stockholm School of Economics and the Rotterdam School of Management.
Carlos Abad is Managing Director of Arthur D. Little Madrid. He was Managing Director of Sogecable (Digital + and Canal +) and previously had worked as Management Consultant for 11 years.
His areas of experience are Media, Financial Services, Telecom and Corporate Finance.
Carlos is “licenciado” in Business Administration from the Universidad Complutense of Madrid and he is Master in Business Administration from Columbia University (New York) where he was awarded with the Wall Street Journal Award.
Yann Cohen is a Director in Arthur D. Little Shanghai office and responsible for the Energy & Chemicals practice and the Financial Institution practice in Greater China.
Yann has gained more than 12 years of top management consulting and investor support experience in Asia / China and Europe (respectively for 5 and 7 years) focusing on performance and growth (M&A, JV and green-field) especially in Energy / Utilities, Chemicals / Resources and Consumer Services (CG&R and FS).
Prior to consulting, Yann worked 3 years in Medical & Biological Engineering (Europe/USA). He is a French national with graduate degrees from ENPC and ENSEEIHT.
François Deneux is a Director of Arthur D. Little in France. He has more than 20 years experience in strategy and management consulting. François has developed expertise in Strategy, Development Strategies (especially for small companies), Organizational optimization, Technologies assessment and change management.
He is the co-founder and member of the board of two biotech companies.
Before joining Arthur D. Little, François worked for two years in an affiliate of BNP Paribas in Turkey (Ottoman Bank).
François is a graduate of ESSEC, a French business school.
Thomas Kuruvilla is the Managing Director of Arthur D. Little, Middle East. Thomas is also the Head of the Strategy and Organization practice in South East Asia and Middle East.
Thomas has extensive consulting and operational experience in the Middle East, Europe and South East Asia in the areas of strategy development and implementation, due-diligence, merger and acquisitions, and performance management. He has also worked extensively in the areas of turnaround and performance management in various industries.
Mark is a Director of Arthur D. Little UK and the head of the UK TIME practice. Mark’s work focuses on corporate strategy and development in the telecoms and media sectors, with particular emphasis on product and service innovation and media mobile market entry. Mark’s position at ADL builds upon considerable experience in innovation consulting and telecommunications; previously Mark led a boutique innovation company in the UK and China, established the China office of CSMG Adventis and for eight years led the European business of CSMG.
With considerable experience in the automotive and manufacturing industries, Thomas’s professional focus lies on M&A, strategy and organization, marketing and sales improvement. He holds an MBA and a PhD in Business Administration and a Master’s degree in Mechanical Engineering.
Karim Taga is Managing Director Austria. He specializes in telecommunications and is a member of the TIME (Telecommunications, Information Technology, Media and Electronics) practice. He is also head of the TIME practice in Austria. Karim received a Master of Science Degree in 1989 from the Ecole Supérieure de l'Energie et des Matériaux, Orléans France with a master thesis accomplishment at the University of California Berkeley. While a research assistant at the Vienna University of Technology he developed an infrared fiber optical sensor. He received his Ph.D. in 1992 followed by an MBA in International Business from the Webster University St Louis Mi in 1993. Karim speaks French, Arabic, English and German.
Mario is Managing Director in Arthur D. Little's office in Italy and has extensive experience in management consulting. His primary focus area is expertise in Strategy and Organization and he has worked with most Italian Companies. Mario is a graduate of Politecnico of Milan, where he obtained a degree in Engineering.