Leadership - Kurt Salmon

Chiheb Mahjoub 70 President and CEO
John Karonis 71 Deputy Chief Executive Officer
Bernard Desprez 74 Managing Partner, Europe and Africa
Andy Bachrodt 169 Managing Partner, Health Care Group
Philippe Burucoa 122 Director, Manufacturing and Energy and Utilities Groups
Eric Crabié 73 Managing Director, Kurt Salmon Luxembourg and Switzerland
Dorothea Ern-Stockum 75 Managing Director, Kurt Salmon Germany
Frederic Goujon 76 Chief Financial Officer
David Hamaty 52 Managing Director, Kurt Salmon Asia-Pacific
Frédéric Hertogs 77 Managing Director, Kurt Salmon Belgium
Brooks Kitchel 78 Managing Director, Global Retail and Consumer Products Group
Helen Mountney 79 Managing Director, Kurt Salmon United Kingdom and Ireland
Joël Nadjar 206 Managing Partner, Global Financial Services Practice
Madison Riley 81 Managing Partner, North American Retail and Consumer Products Group
Eric Tirlemont 80
Bruno Valet 82 Managing Partner, France Public Sector Group

Chiheb Mahjoub

President and CEO

During his career, Mr. Mahjoub has focused on advising financial institutions and supporting the firm’s clients in their strategic planning and transformational projects in Europe, the United States and Asia. Mr. Mahjoub is a member of many think-tanks including the Center for Financial Professionals, the Center for Strategic and Prospective Studies (CEPS) and the Planetworkshops. He is a keynote speaker at international conferences and regularly contributes to publications.

John Karonis

Deputy Chief Executive Officer

Mr. Karonis is Kurt Salmon’s deputy chief executive officer. He has more than 25 years of experience advising the world’s leading retail and consumer products companies in strategy, operations and information systems. He currently leads the firm’s North American, United Kingdom and Asia-Pacific operations, in addition to worldwide IT and human resources functions.

Bernard Desprez

Managing Partner, Europe and Africa

Mr. Desprez, 47 years-old, managed Deloitte’s Public Sector Practice and the Lyon office for four years.

As a founding partner of Ineum Consulting, he led the firm’s Public Sector Practice, which, in five years, experienced remarkable growth and became one of the most important divisions of the firm.

In 2008, he was appointed Director of Operations and then in 2009 Managing Director.

Bernard Desprez is currently Managing Partner for Continental Europe and Africa for Kurt Salmon.

Andy Bachrodt

Managing Partner, Health Care Group

In his 15 years with the firm, Andy Bachrodt has worked with the leaders of over 60 health care organizations to help them advance their strategy, navigate organizational change and better serve their communities. His client base includes regional and national health systems, community hospitals and academic medical centers.

Philippe Burucoa

Director, Manufacturing and Energy and Utilities Groups

Mr. Burucoa leads Kurt Salmon’s Manufacturing and Energy and Utilities Groups. He has more than 25 years of consulting experience, including time as the head of the Paris office of Braxton Associates, Deloitte Consulting’s Strategy Division, and as vice president at A.T. Kearney’s Paris office. Mr. Burucoa graduated from the École Nationale Superieure des Telecommunications, Paris.

Eric Crabié

Managing Director, Kurt Salmon Luxembourg and Switzerland

Mr. Crabié heads Kurt Salmon’s Luxembourg and Switzerland offices and leads service offerings for wealth management, custody and fund administration. He has 15 years of experience in transformational projects, including post-merger integration projects, income tax reporting and industrialization of processes. He has also supported various financial institutions in achieving operational excellence through Lean Six Sigma.

Dorothea Ern-Stockum

Managing Director, Kurt Salmon Germany

Dorothea Ern-Stockum is managing director of Kurt Salmon Germany and head of Germany’s Retail and Consumer Products Group. She has 19 years of consulting experience in retail, consumer goods and private equity. Her professional experience includes a wide range of strategic, merchandising and supply chain projects for leading global brands and retailers, contributing to sustainable growth and efficiency improvements. She also initiated several surveys and thought leadership publications, including Consumer Outlook and Act Vertical. Before joining Kurt Salmon, Mrs. Ern-Stockum worked as product manager in the consumer goods industry.

Frederic Goujon

Chief Financial Officer

Mr. Goujon is Kurt Salmon’s chief financial officer. He was previously the CFO of Ineum Consulting, which merged with Kurt Salmon Associates in 2010, and has extensive experience managing financial operations and complex financial transactions. Mr. Goujon has a master’s degree in management control and audits from the Institut d’Administration des Entreprises, University of Paris, Sorbonne.

David Hamaty

Managing Director, Kurt Salmon Asia-Pacific

Mr. Hamaty leads Kurt Salmon’s Retail and Consumer Products Group in the Asia-Pacific region. He has more than 16 years of experience in Japan and Asia and is an expert in retail strategy and operations. Mr. Hamaty has worked with numerous retailers and brands in private equity due diligence, merchandising, supply chain, channel, store strategy and operations. He is fluent in Japanese.

Frédéric Hertogs

Managing Director, Kurt Salmon Belgium

Mr. Hertogs, who leads Kurt Salmon’s Belgian practice, has experience in both business and professional services. Mr. Hertogs was a Member of the Management Board of NYSE Euronext Brussels, focusing on strategy, change management, business development, sales and marketing involving most of Belgium and Luxembourg’s financial institutions. Prior to this experience, he perfected his skills in domains such as corporate finance, private banking and M&A through his work at KPMG Peat Marwick, Puilatco-Dewaay Bank and Europroperties. Mr. Hertogs also developed strong ties in the public sector working for different regional ministers in Belgium and will therefore also focus on developing Kurt Salmon’s Public Sector practice within the Belgian market, in addition to his role as Managing Partner.

Brooks Kitchel

Managing Director, Global Retail and Consumer Products Group

Mr. Kitchel leads Kurt Salmon’s Global Retail and Consumer Products Group. He brings more than 20 years of experience in the retail and consumer products industry to his role. Named one of Consulting magazine’s Top 25 Consultants for Client Service in 2009, Mr. Kitchel’s expertise covers execution of major change efforts focused on both growth and cost-cutting.

Helen Mountney

Managing Director, Kurt Salmon United Kingdom and Ireland

Helen Mountney is the Managing Partner of Kurt Salmon's UK and Ireland practice. For more than 20 years, she has been working with retailers and consumer products companies to deliver operating efficiencies, turnaround support, strategic planning and organisational design. Before joining Kurt Salmon, Helen worked for Kingfisher, a major UK Retail conglomerate, and Coca-Cola Enterprises. She is regularly cited in leading publications, including the Times.

Joël Nadjar

Managing Partner, Global Financial Services Practice

Joël Nadjar leads the firm’s Global Financial Services Practice. He has more than 20 years of financial services experience, specializing in multichannel distribution models, banking mergers and business plans, service innovation, analytics, marketing and client relationship management, and banking and functional-architecture information technology for the private banking and asset management industries. He joins Kurt Salmon from Accenture, where he led large client services, analytical services, the financial services practice and a worldwide innovation program around next-generation banking. He is widely seen as a thought leader in the financial services industry, leading influential studies of customer behavior and banking trends. He is frequently quoted in leading publications such as Revue Banque, Talaris Interact and Le Figaro and has spoken at many industry conferences including Efma, Lafferty Group and the Microsoft Exchange Forum.

Madison Riley

Managing Partner, North American Retail and Consumer Products Group

Mr. Riley is the head of Kurt Salmon’s North American Retail and Consumer Products Group. For more than 20 years, he has been providing retailers and consumer products companies with strategic planning, organizational design, consumer insights and merchandising process improvement services. Before joining Kurt Salmon, Mr. Riley was the president of Stride Rite, leading a chain of 300 specialty retail stores and a branded wholesale business. He is regularly cited in leading publications, including the Wall Street Journal. Mr. Riley is a member of the Association of Management Consulting Firms' Board of Directors.

Eric Tirlemont

Mr. Tirlemont leads the global Kurt Salmon CIO Advisory Group. He has more than 22 years of experience helping CIOs align IT strategy, organization and processes to sustain the overall business strategy and focuses on working with CIOs in the consumer products and financial services industries. Mr. Tirlemont is a frequent speaker, having delivered numerous engagements throughout the United States, Europe and Asia.

Bruno Valet

Managing Partner, France Public Sector Group

Mr. Valet leads Kurt Salmon’s Public Sector and Government Group in France. He has more than 20 years of experience consulting for major clients in the transportation, services and government sectors. Mr. Valet specializes in strategy, the design and management of large transformation programs, and governance and organizational design.