Kirsten Lange

Professional experience

Currently

Non-executive Board Member (Non-executive Director), among others

Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG (2015-2020) ATS Automation (since Oct. 2017)

Adjunct Professor at INSEAD (MBA program)

Previously

CEO Fritsch Bäckereimaschinen AG

Mid-sized German machinery company (130 Mio. € sales, 600 employees)

Executive Vice President and Member of the Board of Management with Voith Hydro Holding & Co. KG

One of four divisions of Voith, one of the largest German family-owned companies ~ 1.5 bn € of sales, ~ 5000 employees Responsible for New Digital Business, After Market-Business, Automation and Technical Product Management

22 years of strategy consulting with The Boston Consulting Group

Partner and Managing Director since 2000 Global sector leader Pulp&Paper Member of the worldwide Industrial Goods leadership team Co-responsibility for BCG's European Women's Initiative
Regular, highly-rated speaker at pulp&paper industry conferences

Core competencies

Growth and new digital business models Strategy development (served more than 100 clients in industrial goods, consumer goods/retail, media and technology sectors) Operations (deep experience in operations of leading professional services firm, particularly recruiting, retention, career development) Inter-cultural skills (lived/worked several years in USA; France, China; multi-month project assignments in Russia, China, Brazil, Thailand, Israel)

Educational background

MBA, INSEAD Diploma in Journalism, Ludwig-Maximilans-University, Munich