Detlev focuses on advising transportation, travel, automotive, and industrial clients on corporate and business-unit strategies. He also has extensive experience supporting companies on transformation programs and organizational-change issues.
Detlev joined McKinsey in 1992. In the past 2 decades, he has served clients in Europe, China, Brazil, and the United States.
Examples of his recent client work include the following:
- supporting a leading automotive OEM over multiple years on a large number of strategic and growth-related projects
- supporting change and transformation programs for several global automotive, transportation, and industrial clients
- leading a major reorganization of a large multinational company
- supporting a large automotive OEM in managing a major crisis
- supporting the digital strategy and journey of a premium automotive brand
- helping several transportation and automotive clients optimize their sales and marketing operations—including marketing-spend effectiveness, sales-channel effectiveness, and sales-network strategy and expansion
- performing several studies on future mobility trends and strategic implications on different industry players
Published work
“The endgame for postal networks: How to win in the age of e-commerce,” McKinsey & Company, May 2019
“An integrated perspective on the future of mobility,” McKinsey & Company, October 2016
Past experience
Deutsche Bank AG
Banker
Education
University of St. Gallen
PhD and MBA, finance