BearingPoint strengthens global leadership with 14 new Partner promotions

The internal promotions reflect the independent consultancy's commitment to people empowerment and global growth under Strategy 2030.

Amsterdam, July 1, 2026 - Management and technology consultancy BearingPoint has announced the internal promotion of 14 new Partners, effective July 1. The appointments reflect the firm's continued commitment to developing leaders and supporting global growth under Strategy 2030, BearingPoint's roadmap for accelerating growth, expanding capabilities, and empowering people to succeed.

The new Partners at a glance:

Adam Avery
Office: London, United Kingdom
With BearingPoint since: 2015
Education: BSc Computer Science and Business Management, University of Nottingham
Business focus: Business Transformation

This is what Adam says about his goals:

As I move into my role as Partner, I remain passionate about helping our clients transform their businesses, from strategy to sustainable outcomes, shaping the AI-driven enterprises of the future. Building and developing exceptional teams is at the heart of my ambition, creating an environment where our people and our clients thrive together. I'm looking forward to shaping the future of BearingPoint, scaling our capabilities, and further strengthening our position as a trusted transformation partner to leading organizations.

Adam Avery

Diego De la Garza
Office: Chicago, United States
With BearingPoint since: 2021
Education: Dual MBA Management & Finance
Business focus: Sourcing & Procurement - Cost Take Out & Operational Excellence

This is what Diego says about his goals:

My ambition is to accelerate and lead the firm's growth in the U.S. by scaling our Sourcing & Procurement practice as a core pillar of Business Transformation. I will focus on delivering outcome-based engagements that drive measurable impact through cost take-out, operational excellence, and creative commercial models aligned to client results. A key strategic priority is expanding our Private Equity channel and middle market presence, where demand for value creation is accelerating. By combining deep sourcing expertise with performance improvement capabilities, I aim to position BearingPoint as the trusted partner for outcome-driven transformation and to scale our U.S. business with a high-performing team and strong alliances.

Diego De la Garza

Olivier Faulque
Office: Paris, France
With BearingPoint since: 2011
Education: French Engineering Degree + Master of Engineering Science in Australia
Business focus: CRM Strategy and Transformation, development of our Salesforce activities.

This is what Olivier says about his goals:

My mission is to lead impactful CRM transformations with my customers, enhancing the business value they get while effectively managing their complexities, by delivering sustainable, secure, and scalable solutions that drive measurable growth and long-term success.

Olivier Faulque

Jonathan Fernande
Office: Prague, Czech Republic
With BearingPoint since: 2017
Education: Master's in international politics
Business focus: Sourcing & Procurement (SAP-enabled Procurement Transformation)

This is what Jonathan says about his goals:

My mission is to drive large-scale, global SAP-enabled procurement transformations that deliver measurable business value for our clients. By combining our team's deep expertise, a pragmatic approach and delivery excellence, I aim to accelerate outcome-driven SAP transformation for clients and strengthen BearingPoint's position as a leading partner in digital sourcing and procurement.

Jonathan Fernande

Rebecca Hammer
Office: Frankfurt, Germany
With BearingPoint since: 2013
Education: Master of Science / MBA - International Management
Business focus: Sourcing & Procurement

This is what Rebecca says about her goals:

In my role as Partner, I am committed to actively driving the growth of our Sourcing & Procurement practice and shaping the next generation of procurement. This means not only leveraging the full potential of AI, data, and digital architectures, but also redefining operating models to make procurement more strategic, resilient, and value-driven. My ambition is to contribute to a future-oriented procurement function that delivers measurable impact while continuously evolving to meet new business demands.

Rebecca Hammer

Oliver Handl
Office: Frankfurt, Germany
With BearingPoint since: 2005
Education: Master of Science Business Administration
Business focus: Financial Services, promotional banking

This is what Oliver says about his goals:

I am committed to shaping sustainable and forward-looking transformation journeys within the financial services sector, particularly in the promotional banking environment. By combining deep expertise in promotional loans and grants with a strong focus on operational excellence, I drive efficiency programs while embedding robust and future-oriented capabilities.

Oliver Handl

Gerard Hayes
Office: Dublin, Ireland
With BearingPoint since: 2009
Education: Master's in Business Information Systems, Information Systems and Business Analysis
Business focus: Public Services, People & Strategy

This is what Gerard says about his goals:

My focus is on helping clients improve how services are delivered to citizens, simplify operating models, and make better use of data and technology. A key part of my work is helping organizations adopt AI in a way that is useful and grounded in real service needs. This includes identifying where AI can improve citizen interactions, automate processes, and support better decision-making across government.

Gerard Hayes

Clément Jullien
Office: Paris, France
With BearingPoint since: 2006
Education: Master of Business Administration (MBA)
Business focus: Public Services

This is what Clément says about his goals:

As a Partner in our public sector practice, I help French local authorities and transport authorities design and steer the public policies that respond to today's major transitions - ecological, demographic, and digital/AI. My focus is on turning these long-term shifts into concrete improvements for citizens and territories, including the responsible adoption of artificial intelligence. Just as important to me is building strong teams and nurturing the trusted, long-term relationships with our clients that lie at the heart of our work. Together, I want to strengthen BearingPoint's position as the reference partner for public sector transformation, from local authorities to European institutions.

Clément Jullien

Michael Kohl
Office: Frankfurt, Germany
With BearingPoint since: 2014
Education: Economist (Diplom-Volkswirt)
Business focus: Finance Transformation & CFO Agenda

This is what Michael says about his goals:

In an era marked by fluctuating global markets, economic pressure, and rapid technological disruption, my goal is to help CFO organizations build ultimate operational resilience. By integrating AI-powered forecasting and robust cloud technologies, we transform data from a reactive reporting tool into a proactive, strategic shield capable of navigating macroeconomic uncertainty with precision.

Michael Kohl

Christian Lochert
Office: Düsseldorf, Germany
With BearingPoint since: 2011
Education: Diploma in Business Informatics and PhD in Computer Science
Business focus: IT Transformation (IT Strategy, Enterprise Architecture) and mobility-driven modernization aspects

This is what Christian says about his goals:

Digital transformation in complex infrastructures requires more than technology: it requires rethinking how systems are designed and managed. As a Partner, I aim to support my clients in the mobility and public sector by aligning IT strategy and enterprise architecture with business needs, enabling more efficient use of transport infrastructure, better decision-making, and sustainable long-term impact.

Christian Lochert

Unnikrishnan Menon
Office: Mumbai, India
With BearingPoint since: 2022
Education: Degree in Economics
Business focus: Strategic customer alignment at Arcwide.

This is what Unnikrishnan says about his goals:

As the delivery head for the onshore and offshore team at Arcwide, I am responsible for strategic customer alignment by ensuring that the project or service delivery exactly matches the customer's high-level business goals and ROI targets, including transparent communication.

Unnikrishnan Menon

Abhishek Pathak
Office: London, United Kingdom
With BearingPoint since: 2022
Education: MBA, Oxford University
Business focus: Mergers & Acquisitions

This is what Abhishek says about his goals:

As an advisor, my goal is to help clients realize value while building long-term, trust-based relationships. I believe trust is earned through consistency - in how we think, communicate, and deliver - while staying attuned to a fast-evolving M&A landscape. I focus on developing my team to combine that consistency with up-to-date insight, ensuring our clients receive reliable and relevant support at every stage.

Abhishek Pathak

Stefan Reumann
Office: Hamburg, Germany
With BearingPoint since: 2022
Education: M.Sc. in Marketing and Sales Management
Business focus: Salesforce, focused on the manufacturing industry

This is what Stefan says about his goals:

Creating long-lasting value by leveraging the technological capabilities of the Salesforce platform is at the forefront of my focus for our clients. Finding the right balance between process, data, and AI, aligned with business goals and KPIs, is crucial while ensuring that people are not left behind. I help identify this balance and ensure that our clients are well prepared for the agentic transformation.

Stefan Reumann

Patrice Thoquet
Office: Paris, France
With BearingPoint since: 2007
Education: Double bachelor's degree in international management (CESEM Reims from NEOMA Business School & ESB Reutlingen)
Business focus: Business transformation through SAP in the consumer goods and life sciences industry

This is what Patrice says about his goals:

As a Partner in our Enterprise SAP Transformation practice, I focus on delivering tangible value through complex, large-scale international transformation programs, while strengthening our footprint in the consumer goods, food and life sciences sectors. I drive the integration of AI by design into our transformation approaches and co-lead our SAP Manufacturing capability to address clients' most critical end-to-end operational challenges.

Patrice Thoquet

About BearingPoint

BearingPoint is an independent management and technology consultancy with European roots and a global reach. We help businesses transform by combining deep industry expertise with strong capabilities in strategy, operations, and technology. Dedicated SAP and Microsoft transformation units, a strong focus on AI, and outcome-based products enable us to provide tailored, innovative solutions that create measurable and sustainable value.

In addition to our core consulting operations, we run two joint ventures. Arcwide, our joint venture with IFS, specializes in business transformation enabled by IFS technology. BearingPoint North America, our joint venture with ABeam Consulting, focuses on consulting excellence and business transformation built on SAP.

BearingPoint works with many of the world's leading companies and public-sector organizations. Together with its strategic alliance partner ABeam Consulting, the firm brings together more than 15,000 professionals and serves clients in over 70 countries, delivering seamless business transformation, strengthening performance, and driving sustainable impact.

BearingPoint is recognized among TIME World's Best Companies and Forbes World's Best Employers. The firm is also a certified B Corporation, committed to responsible business and creating long-term value for organizations, people, and society.

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