Our Management Team
Roland Bubik
MANAGING PARTNER
Founding partner of BMC Strategy Consultants. Advises banks, insurance companies and their IT service providers on defining and implementing future-proof business and divisional strategies with a focus on organisational development, regulation and agilisation.
Roland Bubik also specialises in digitalisation, IT and operations as well as project restructuring.
He has been working as a management consultant since 1995 and is the founder of the predecessor company BMC Professionals (2015). Previously, he worked for Mitchell Madison Group, Booz & Co and Oliver Wyman.
Dr. Michael Holzapfel
MANAGING PARTNER
Founding partner of BMC Strategy Consultants. Supports IT units of banks and insurance companies in optimisation and realignment with a focus on developing and transforming IT strategies.
Other consulting focuses include organisational development, efficiency improvement, transformation of IT operating models, IT planning and control as well as the restructuring of distressed IT projects.
Other consulting focuses include organisational development, efficiency improvement, transformation of IT operating models, IT planning and control as well as the restructuring of distressed IT projects.
Thomas Pasche
MANAGING PARTNER
Founding partner of BMC Strategy Consultants. Advises insurance companies and banks on the strategic and operational development of their business and operating models with a focus on digital transformation.
Further consulting focus on digital transformation in the context of growth and efficiency programs as well as optimization of IT governance.
Active as a management consultant and entrepreneur since 2003, previously held positions at Simon-Kucher & Partners, Oliver Wyman Financial Services and in the development of a start-up.
Roland Kropf
MANAGING PARTNER
Founding partner of the predecessor company BMC Professionals in Austria. Advises COO functions in the financial industry on strategic, regulatory and operational issues as well as on change journeys.
Additional consulting areas include IT operating models and governance, architecture definition, and management of complex implementation activities.
Roland is an experienced manager with over 30 years of professional experience in the financial industry and various management positions in line and project organizations (e.g. divisional CIO, program manager) at UniCredit Germany, ERSTE Bank or Accenture, among others.
Ausgewählte Beraterprofile
Gunther Klobe
MANAGER
Supporting financial institutions and their IT service providers in optimizing and realigning their business strategy and processes.
Consulting focus on digital transformation, data management, regulatory (risk management, ESG) and turnaround projects. Since 2022 as manager at BMC Strategy Consultants.
Previously positions as management consultant at PwC Financial Services Consulting and as researcher and lecturer at various universities worldwide (Cambridge, Sydney, Oxford, ETH Zurich).
Manuel Meininger
MANAGER
Supporting banks, insurance companies and their IT service providers with a focus on managing large-scale strategic IT projects and transformation programmes.
Consulting focus on IT strategy development and operationalisation, organisation and operating models, classic project management according to PMI, agile project management according to SCRUM and SaFe®, process automation and reengineering.
Since 2021 as manager at BMC Strategy Consultants GmbH. Previously held positions at Boston Consulting Group, Deutsche Telekom AG, Commerzbank AG and BASF SE.
Dr. Niclas Linne
MANAGER
Supporting financial service providers, insurance companies and IT service providers in strategically and technically challenging issues
Consulting focus on strategic cost containment, regulatory affairs, IT strategy, risk management and quantum computing.
Since 2022 management consultant
at BMC Strategy Consultants.
Previously positions in risk
management and regulatory
reporting at d-fine and as research
assistant at JLU Gießen.
Tobias Schwaiger
MANAGER
Supporting banks, insurance companies and IT financial service providers with a focus on strategic operational and business model transformation
Consulting focus on strategy development, business model innovation, IT transformation, project and change management as well as ESG.
Since 2022 as a management consultant at BMC Professionals. Previously held positions in line functions at Volksbank Tirol AG and as a consultant for a regional consulting firm.
Annika Meo
MANAGER
Supporting banks, insurance companies and financial service providers in the context of IT transformations, regulatory challenges or reorganizations.
Consulting focus is on answering challenging strategic questions such as reorganizations or buy / no-buy decisions as well as supporting major technological and regulatory transformations.
Manager at BMC Strategy Consultants since 2023. Previously held positions at Deutsche Bank and KfW Bankengruppe as well as in a management consultancy in the financial services sector.
Linus Kienmoser
SENIOR CONSULTANT
Supporting banks, insurance companies and their IT service providers in the elaboration and further development of new and existing IT and operational strategies.
Consulting focus on software renovation & software engineering, development & architecture review, software implementation, software development with Java, SOAP, Oracle & Eclipse.
Since 2022 as a management consultant at BMC Strategy Consultants GmbH. Previously with Itestra GmbH.
Anna Liedtke
SENIOR CONSULTANT
Supporting banks, insurance companies and their IT service providers in the elaboration and further development of new and existing business and operational strategies.
Consulting focus on bank management, regulation, digitalisation, innovation and change management as well as agile methodology.
Since 2020 as a consultant at BMC Strategy Consultants GmbH. Previously worked for HSBC Trinkaus & Burkhardt AG and EGATE International.
Antonia Taufer
CONSULTANT
Supporting banks, insurance companies and financial service providers in the elaboration and further development of new and existing business and IT strategies.
Consulting focus on bank management, digitalisation, strategic operational and business model transformation.Since 2023 as a management consultant at BMC Strategy Consultants.
Previously positions in management consulting at KPMG Austria and at BNP Paribas S.A. and Consorsbank
Maximilian Pfeiffer
CONSULTANT
Supporting banks, insurance companies and their IT service providers with focus on strategic operational and business model transformation.
Consulting focus on digitalisation, IT-transformation, digital ecosystems, regulation, innovation and change management.
Since 2023 as consultant at BMC Strategy Consultants. Previously positions at Horn & Company, H&Z Consulting and Deloitte Consulting.
Jan Chalupsky
CONSULTANT
Supporting financial institutions and IT service providers with a focus on business strategy and process optimization.
Consulting focus on strategic management analysis, strategy development, fintech and the CEE financial sector.
Working as consultant at BMC Professionals since 2024.
Previously held various positions in strategic in-house consulting at Raiffeisen Bank International.
Jule Steinle
MARKETING
Supports BMC in the areas of marketing, PR and events.
Focus is on the company's social media presence, website content and the planning and execution of internal and external events.
Previously in various positions in internal and external communications and project management at Fresenius SE & Co KGaA. Group
Annett Heinrich
CHIEF RELATION OFFICER AND
RECRUITMENT MANAGER
Responsible for sales, recruiting and supporting the Managing Partners.
BMC's customer spectrum, as well as responsibility for recruiting and internal firm building.
With BMC Strategy Consultants GmbH since 2020. Previously positions at Cervacon GmbH, Clean Logistics GmbH and Container Trading GmbH.
The Network of the Best:
Our Network Partners
Depending on the client's topic, we work together with specialized consultants who bring in relevant expertise and experience. We have access to a quality-assured network of certified consultants, which we are constantly expanding.
Here are some sample profiles:
Bernhard Gröhl
IT-Sicherheit, Cyber Risk
More than 20 years of experience as a management consultant, mainly in the financial services, energy and telecommunications industries. Managing Director of DRAKE Technology Partners in Tallinn, which specializes in IT productivity benchmarking.
Degree in computer science (Dipl.- Ing. (FH)) in Frankfurt/M
Christian Jacob
IT cost optimisation
Has been working as a management consultant for over 10 years, primarily in the financial services and logistics industry
Managing director of bridge2-plan.connect, which specialises in cloud strategy and transformation projects
Business studies with degree in business administration in Nuremberg
Dr. Ralph Kremer
Change Management,
Artificial intelligence
Since 15 years working as a management consultant in the automotive and finance sector
Strategy and organization-development, project and change management with focus on artificial intelligence
Business administration and law studies with degree in business administration in Passau, doctorate at WU Vienna
Lecturer for artificial intelligence and digital business models at various technical universities, DFKI & bitkom-certified AI manager
Frank Poggendorff
and optimisation,
negotiation
12 years as a management consultant in the field of strategic sourcing for top consultancies
Senior advisor for the identification and realisation of cost savings for financial service providers
8 years experience as head of strategic sourcing at a systemically important transaction bank
ITIL certified and experienced negotiator
Business Mentor for FinTechs at Goethe University Frankfurt
Dr. Axel Scheurer
Has worked as a management consultant in the banking and insurance sector for more than 20 years, including several years for Mercer Management Consulting/Oliver Wyman
Strategy development and -implementation, sales intensification and control as well as organization and process optimization.
Business studies in Munich, doctorate at the University of Bayreuth
Tatjana Wild
restructuring, FinTechs
Advisor and Senior Program Manager for retail banking businesses
Roles as interim retail bank board member
Project manager at various international strategic management consultancies
Great expertise in the FinTech sector, FinTech partner with Tiburon Unternehmensaufbau GmbH
Prof. Dr. Alexander Schroff
Advises banks and insurance companies on the definition and implementation of projects with focus on strategic cost reduction, digital transformation and sustainability.
Alexander Schroff's additional consulting focus includes digitalization, IT and, especially since the introduction of digital central bank money, the German implementation of the Electronic Securities Act.
Florian Grimm
Supporting banks, asset managers, insurance companies, and IT service providers in digitalization and IT transformation around complex regulatory & compliance as well as strategic capital markets projects.
Consulting focuses on business strategy, sustainability and ESG, cost management, efficiency improvements, implementation of regulatory requirements and agile management of technical & process implementations, outsourcing, as well as preliminary studies, process and data analyses.