Author: Norbert Gittfried

Norbert Gittfried is a Partner and Director at Boston Consulting Group. As topic coordinator for Compliance & Regulation, he advises large financial institutions worldwide on complex compliance transformations and the development of overarching non-financial risk steering approaches. His focus lies both in establishing effective Compliance and NFR Management systems, in digitising those functions and making them more efficient. Prior to joining BCG 11 years ago, he was Senior Manager at a Big 4 Company. He is a lecturer at Goethe Business School and a permanent representative in various industry bodies for FI. Georg Lienke is a lawyer and Associate Director at Boston Consulting Group focusing on non-financial risk management and Compliance. In his work for financial institutions and corporate clients over the last 15 years, his focus was on the design and implementation of target operating models for non-financial risk management. Georg regularly publishes on non-financial risk topic. He holds a Ph.D. in law from the Technical University Dresden and a Master of Laws in Corporate and Financial Law from the University of Hong Kong. Prior to joining BCG, Georg worked at a Big 4 Company and a global bank. Florian Seiferlein is an Associate Director at Boston Consulting Group. For over a decade, he advised leading companies on Compliance & Non-Financial Risks (NFR). He managed large-scale Compliance & NFR transformations, investigations and regulatory assessments in Europe, North America and Africa, and he was also a part of US Monitor teams. Prior to joining BCG, he worked for Big 4 and management consulting firms. Florian holds a Master of Science in business engineering (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology). Jannik Leiendecker is a Partner and an Associate Director at Boston Consulting Group. Over the last 11 years, his focus has been on Non-Financial Risk (incl. Compliance) and ESG. He has advised numerous clients especially within the Financial Services industry on the set-up and optimisation of their respective operating model. He has also co-authored various corresponding publications. Jannik holds a Master of Science in Economic History from the London School of Economics and a Bachelor of Science in Business from the Ludwig-Maximilians-University in Munich. Bernhard Gehra is a Senior Partner and Managing Director at Boston Consulting Group. His focus has been on Risk, Compliance and Technology for more than 20 years. During the last of those, he has led large worldwide projects focused on Risk and Non-Financial Risk. Furthermore, Bernhard recently managed ESG Compliance issues for large companies. Prior to joining BCG, he worked for a global securities service provider. Bernhard holds a Ph.D. in information science.