Senior Consultant
Leading Edge Forum

Kirt is a Senior Consultant with the Leading Edge Forum, for which he conducts research projects on a range of issues in the Business/IT interface.

Kirt is an experienced consultant in innovation, IT strategy, business transformation, and advanced organization. He has been working with American and European multinationals for over 20 years. Though he has focused more on manufacturing, process industry, and pharmaceuticals, he has also worked in financial services and consumer products. For 13 years, Kirt was a senior officer with CSC Index (now the Leading Edge Forum – Executive Programme), where he headed the process industry group. More recently, he has been a regular lecturer at Universitaets Seminar der Wirtschaft (USW), a German business school.

Prior to Index, Kirt was a Partner in Resource Planning Associates (RPA), a consulting firm that specialized in resources and energy. At RPA, he played a major role in developing operations in France and Europe. Kirt began his career at MITRE Corporation, the well known Air Force and CIA think tank near Boston.

Kirt is a regular lecturer and teacher in advanced business and IT practice both in Europe and the US. He holds a PhD from MIT, a Masters from Stanford, and a BA from Wesleyan University. He speaks fluent French and German.