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Carsten Hirschberg

Senior PartnerBerlin

Global leader in the Strategy & Corporate Finance Practice. Partnering with leaders to set strategy, transform organizations, and deliver value.

Carsten’s core passion is to help clients achieve lasting impact, particularly through end-to-end digital transformations and strategy programs.

Carsten has used advanced analytics and classic consulting to help clients in many transformations and has served multiple private-equity players on company transformations, 100-day programs, due diligence, and vendor due diligence.

Examples of his recent client work include:

  • leading more than 100 due-diligence engagements, more than 15 vendor-due-diligence engagements, and more than 10 IPO engagements, across nearly all industries,
  • directing more than 20 merger-management engagements, including three-company mergers
  • supporting a digital-performance transformation that increased earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization by more than 110 percent in 18 months
  • guiding an End-to-end transformation that increased market cap to $3 billion, from $300 million, by applying digital technology and advanced analytics and by creating an agile organization
  • aiding a sales transformation that reduced working capital by €1 billion and improved earnings before interest and taxes by €300 million
  • creating a digital strategy for a global $30 billion company
  • directing the transformation of a €1 billion private-equity-portfolio company across all operations, significantly reducing costs in purchasing; selling, general, and administrative functions; and supply chain
  • leading global sales transformations, comprising headquarter strategies, country-growth strategies, and retail transformations

Carsten has advised Save the Children, the Catholic Church, and Welthungerhilfe. He lives in Berlin with his family.

Published work

The potential of microgravity: How companies across sectors can venture into space,” McKinsey & Company, June 2022

Education

Kellogg School of Management Northwestern University
MBA

University of Münster
MA, business administration and management