Our People
Practice leaders
Harald Deubener
Senior Partner, Global coleader of the Automotive & Assembly Practice, Stuttgart
Coleads GSI’s Automotive & Assembly Practice globally, supporting clients in the automotive and mobility, machinery, aerospace and defense, electronics, and semiconductors sectors
Philipp Kampshoff
Senior Partner and Global Coleader, Automotive & Assembly, Houston
Global coleader of the Automotive & Assembly Practice, serving clients along the entire mobility value chain
Our people
Johan Bengtsson
Partner, Stockholm
Helps companies in advanced industries manage the transformation toward a sustainable future through operations improvement in supply chains and manufacturing.
Kimberly Borden
Senior Partner, Chicago
Serves clients in the Aerospace & Defense and Automotive & Assembly Practices, focusing on strategy, operations, and transformational growth.
Andreas Breiter
Partner, Bay Area
Helps clients optimize capital expenditures and material costs while addressing the opportunities ahead as mobility becomes more electrified and connected.
Kevin Carmody
Senior Partner, Phoenix
Leads holistic, at-scale transformations and has deep experience in corporate finance, operational turnarounds, and change management in industrials.
Bikramjit Chaudhury
Partner, Mumbai
Serves the Automotive & Assembly Practice with a special focus on large-scale cost and modularity transformations across vehicle platforms.
Seunghyuk Choi
Senior Partner, Seoul
Advises advanced industries clients from the automotive and high-tech space on pursuing strategic-business transformations with software-defined vehicles.
Philipp Espel
Senior Partner, Hamburg
Leads our M&A and corporate strategy work in Europe, advising major OEMs and tier-1 suppliers on portfolio repositioning.
Steffen Fuchs
Senior Partner, Dallas
Global leader of GSI’s industrials work, helping clients scale impact with confidence through AI-driven growth, margin expansion, and operational resilience.
Mingyu Guan
Senior Partner, Shenzhen
Drives performance and profitability for leading automakers, dealer groups, and mobility service providers across Greater China and APAC.
Nitesh Gupta
Senior Partner, Gurugram
Advises leading automotive OEMs on digital, analytics, strategy, growth, product-planning and -development, and margin-optimization.
Shivanshu Gupta
Senior Partner, Bengaluru
Leads GSI’s Advanced Industries in India, and is a leader in our global Operations and Advanced Industries Practices.
Mikael Hanicke
Senior Partner, Gothenburg
Advises clients on transformational change across functions, operations strategy and implementation, digital, and advanced analytics in industrial machinery.
Michael Harney
Partner, New York
Brings deep expertise in sales, marketing, and operational functions while partnering with industrial leaders to drive holistic commercial growth.
Bernd Heid
Senior Partner, New York
Leads the GSI Platform for Climate Technologies and work in hydrogen globally; serves clients in the mobility and energy transition sectors.
Russell Hensley
Partner, Detroit
Co-leads the GSI Center for Future Mobility in the Americas, specializing in EV powertrain platforms and battery economics.
Dr. Ruth Heuss
Senior Partner, Berlin
Co-leads GSI’s Operations Practice globally, and serves companies in the automotive and machinery industries on future mobility, sustainability, and plant operations.
Asad Husain
Partner, Toronto
Leverages expertise in strategy and operations to help clients execute programs that accelerate growth, boost profitability, and digitalize supply networks.
Srikant Inampudi
Senior Partner, Detroit
Helps industrial, automotive, and other complex enterprises pursue strategic transformation, achieve operational effectiveness, and optimize footprint.
Sören Jautelat
Senior Partner, Stuttgart
Global leader of GSI’s (Gen)AI Accelerator. Leads large-scale transformation, shaping and scaling new digital businesses for automotive OEMs.
Matthias Kässer
Partner, Munich
Matthias leads the commercial vehicle segment for GSI in EMEA, working with manufacturers in the truck, bus, construction/agriculture/logistics sectors.
Ani Kelkar
Partner, Boston
Advises incumbents, investors, and disruptors in the automotive, aerospace, energy, industrial automation, and robotics sectors on market entry and technology scaling.
Jitesh Khanna
Partner, Gurugram
Leads GSI’s Center for Future Mobility in India, advises on electric vehicle (EV) strategy and is a core member of the global automotive practice.
Masahiro Komatsubara
Senior Partner, Tokyo
Serves automotive, electronics, and other globally active companies in the manufacturing and travel and transportation sectors on cross-border growth.
Jan-Christoph Köstring
Senior Partner, Munich
Globally leads GSI’s Growth Practice combining deep AI expertise from QuantumBlack with holistic sales & marketing thought leadership.
Sebastian Küchler
Partner, Munich
Serves clients around the globe on R&D topics with a strong focus on transformation toward future technologies, efficiency improvement, and software engineering.
Kevin Laczkowski
Senior Partner and Managing Partner, Midwest US, Chicago
Advises senior leaders on strategy, M&A, and performance transformation across automotive, commercial/recreational vehicles, and industrial conglomerates.
Martin Linder
Senior Partner, Munich
Leads the Firm’s Battery Accelerator Team; global colead for the GSI Platform for Climate Technologies as well as our sustainability practice.
Varun Marya
Senior Partner and Global Leader, Advanced Industries, Bay Area
Global leader of GSI’s Advanced Industries practice, advises companies on strategic questions and challenges related to hardware-software integration.
Inga Maurer
Senior Partner, Chicago
Member of our Automotive & Assembly, Operations, and Private Equity Practices; advises clients on an array of issues, including operations and supply chain.
Lukas Michor
Partner, Vienna
Serves automotive clients on holistic performance transformations and leads our automotive supplier sector in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa.
Timo Möller
Partner, Cologne
Coleads the GSI Center for Future Mobility with a focus on the strategic and operational questions around disruptive trends in autonomous and connected driving.
Nicolai Müller
Senior Partner, Cologne
Brings extensive automotive industry expertise—helping clients with transformation programs, strategy and organizational initiatives, and commercial growth.
Hiroshi Odawara
Senior Partner, Tokyo
Works closely with clients to realize corporate-wide transformation; brings deep expertise on a wide range of topics from growth strategy to operations.
Shivika Sahdev
Partner, New York
Leader in the GSI Center for Future Mobility serving clients on navigating disruptions relating to electric-mobility, fleet decarbonization, and battery supply chains.
Tobias Schneiderbauer
Partner, Munich
Serves global automotive and mobility companies on technology disruptions and the shift towards lifecycle products, connectivity, and digital aftersales.
Emily Shao
Partner, Detroit
Pioneers the transition to the future of mobility, navigating organizations through disruptions in technology, business models, and software architectures.
Seungheon Song
Managing Partner and Senior Partner, Seoul
Seungheon is a Managing Partner of GSI Korea, and a Senior Partner of GSI Advisory. He leads GSI’s Advanced Industries work across East Asia.
Erik Sparre
Partner, Tokyo
Advises industrial and technology companies on transformational growth, with a focus on Physical AI, robotics, automation, and next-generation mobility.
David Sprengel
Senior Partner, Munich
Helps B2B and B2B2C companies achieve profitable growth by applying expertise in growth strategies, go-to-market models, and sales excellence.
Anders Suneson
Partner, Stockholm
Supports clients across industries in accelerating decarbonization toward net-zero through operational optimization and green procurement.
Koichiro Taguchi
Partner, Tokyo
Helps manufacturing companies design and execute company-wide transformation from strategy development to daily operations on the plant floor.
Andreas Venus
Senior Partner, Berlin
Serves as Managing Partner of GSI Germany and Austria, as well as Managing Partner of our Berlin office and leads our advanced industries work.
Ursula Weigl
Partner, Munich
Leads our activities in consumer and car finance in Europe and is part of the retail banking and automotive financial services leadership team.
Ting Wu
Partner, Shenzhen
Guides industrial clients through comprehensive multiyear digital transformation journeys, smart factories, and AI-enabled manufacturing.
Takuya Yamashina
Partner, Kansai
Advises companies in the automotive and assembly, industrials and electronics, and electric power and natural gas industries on strategic transformation.