Who We Are
MAP is located in the United States, Europe, and Asia, with consultants in major cities.
Bangalore
Ardhendu G Pathak, Ph.DArdhendu G Pathak, Ph.D. has been a leading figure in digital transformation at Airbus since 2012 where he identified, assessed, and injected key emerging technologies into Airbus. His group filed over 45 patents in key areas. From 2001-2012, he led globally dispersed teams for General Electric - in a variety of technical and executive roles in which he had responsibility for large engineering and research teams for various GE Businesses (Appliances, Industrial Systems, Lighting, Sensing, and Security) as well as for GE Corporate Research. From 1994 - 2001, with the National Institute of Ocean Technology, he was involved with applied research on ocean energy extraction, ambient ocean noise, instrumentation systems for subsea use, and lab infrastructure. He led an official expert delegation to Russia and Myanmar.
Before that, at IIT (Madras) he was part of a team having responsibility for design, construction, offshore towing, and installation of ocean wave energy plant off the coast of Trivandrum. His education includes a PhD. In 1993 from the University of Rhode Island (USA); a M.Tech from IIT (Madras) in 1986, and a B.E. from the College of Engineering (Pune) in 1985.
Budapest
Fraser HodgesFraser Hodges was a finance executive and general manager at Ford Motor company from 1995 - 2015. He held various positions across Europe and Asia, including Finance Director and board member of Ford España, before moving to Volvo in Sweden and then on to Shanghai where he was asked to set up the financial planning and analysis team for the newly relocated Asia Pacific headquarters. After building and leading a purchasing and material cost team of over 200 employees across the region, he was Ford’s lead finance executive in the Turkish joint venture with the prestigious Koç family of industrial companies.
While at Volvo Cars, Fraser offshored numerous roles and departments from Sweden to India and led the development and communication of the corporate business plan leading up to the negotiation and sale of the company to Geely.
He currently works as a certified executive coach with leaders in Europe, Asia, and North America and has coached clients in pharmaceutical, medical instrument, private equity, banking, insurance, tech services, retail, education, automotive, and non-profit sectors. Fraser is an adjunct professor at the International Business School in Budapest where he teaches, supervises research, and leads seminars in business strategy, economics, and organizational dynamics.
Chicago
Michelle M. SmeadMichelle Smead is an Advisor and Consultant with MAP, having previously worked with MAP's founder Knut Revling during her career at A.T. Kearney Executive Search. Her experience includes assessing client's needs for C-level positions by discovering the requirements of key roles, success criteria, and culture fit within Fortune 100 clients, financial services, private equity, family offices: industrial, automotive and a variety of professional services organizations. Moreover, she has been dedicated to assisting clients with their Diversity, Equality, and Inclusion needs.
Michelle is on the Board of Klout, a venture-backed financial services and insurance brokerage company that serves family and high net worth clients and is Managing Director of Patina Solutions in Chicago. Before Patina Solutions, Michelle was a Executive Vice President at DHR International; A.T. Kearney; EY; and KPMG and started her career at Booz Allen. Moreover, Michelle led Executive Talent Acquisition at BMO Harris and Adtalem. While at A.T. Kearney, she founded the D&I Practice and served on A.T. Kearney's global Diversity Practice. Her Diversity research has been appeared in the Wall Street Journal, USA Today and various news networks.
Michelle holds a B.A. in Economics from the University of Illinois and a Master of Management from Northwestern's Kellogg Graduate School of Management. She is an executive member of the International Women's Forum; past President of the Northwestern Kellogg's Executive Women's Network; Board Member of The Theater School of DePaul University; Past President of the Women's Board of the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago (now Shirley Ryan Ability Center) and is a frequent speaker on career strategies. She is also on the board of ELITE where she mentors human resources and finance leaders.
Bart KochaBart Kocha has advised major global companies and public organizations for over 25 years. He has experience in manufacturing, technology, healthcare, and financial services, as well as other sectors. His primary areas of expertise include large-scale transformation, organization strategy, new product development and business process outsourcing.
His experience includes over ten years as a senior partner with A.T. Kearney where he was responsible for the Organization & Transformation Global Service Practice. He led A.T. Kearney into several new market areas including Talent Management, Shared Services and Business Process Outsourcing. Bart served on the Global and North American Leadership Teams for A.T. Kearney and represented the firm on the EDS Leadership Team. Before beginning his consulting career with A.T. Kearney he worked in operations and finance for 3M Company and Amoco Chemical Company.
Bart holds an MBA in Finance from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and a Bachelor of Business in Accounting and MIS from the University of Wisconsin Madison. He has a passion for public education reform and currently serves on the Executive Committee of the IL Network of Charter Schools. He has worked with the Walton Family Foundation on school reform within the charter sector.
Bart's personal interests include spending time outdoors with his wife and four daughters. He enjoys biking, running, and skiing, and is currently coaching a high school cross-country ski team.
Kobe, Japan
Arif IqballArif has been a Global Chief Financial Officer and Corporate Senior Vice President for Benesse Holdings Inc, a publicly-traded US$ 5 billion Japanese company covering approximately 40 group companies. In this capacity, Arif was one of less than three foreign CFO's in a top-tier Japanese Public Company. During his earlier corporate years, Arif had held leadership positions at Ford and Delphi (Automotive), Avon (Cosmetics/Direct Selling), Becton Dickinson (Medical Equipment), and at McCann Worldgroup (Advertising). Arif also has extensive Board experience as a Board member in over 15 public and private companies across Japan, China, and the United States.
Arif holds a Masters in Business Administration and a Master in Japanese Studies from the University of Michigan, a Master in Manufacturing Engineering from Northwestern University, and a Bachelors of Science cum laude in Mechanical Engineering from Clemson University. He is an ICF Professional Certified Coach and holds additional coaching qualifications from Marshall Goldsmith, Korn Ferry, New Ventures West, and the Neuroleadership Institute. Arif is based in Kyoto and speaks native English, Urdu, and fluent Japanese.
Kuala Lumpur, Jakarta & Bangkok
Patrick LeePatrick Lee specializes in corporate and marketing strategy as well as in analyses and recommendations of problems concerning management, leadership, and organizational structure. Before joining MAP, he chaired the consultancy Vistage Malaysia. Previously, he had served as VP for International sales of China Yuchai, a subsidiary of Hong Leong Asia, in which he increased export sales of Yuchai by 50%. Other responsibilities have included being General Manager of the International Business unit for ZGPT (diesel heavy industry) in Hangzhou, China; and VP of Kawasaki Gas Turbine Asia covering Asia/Pacific for the power plant business. For several years, he was also in senior management of ABB Power Generation Asia/Pacific.
He is a mechanical engineer who holds an MBA from the Asian Institute of Management (A.I.M).
Linz & Vienna
Marie-Caroline Gräfin von Ledebur-WichelnFor more than 25 years, Caroline von Ledebur has been advising CEOs and top management of companies on leadership networks as well as on questions of succession, corporate governance and strategy implementation. Before joining MAP in 2013, she built her own consulting business and advised leaders on networking, relationship building, development and performance. She also works as a certified Coach.
In the years prior, Caroline was CEO of G100, a membership-only organization which brings together active Chairmen and CEOs from major publicly traded companies in the USA and Europe. G100 provides forums in which Chairmen and CEOs can privately discuss and debate business issues and best practices. Caroline also co-founded and lead the CEO Academy and the Chairman Academy, which were sponsored by G100.
Previously, Caroline was a Principal at SpencerStuart in the Frankfurt and New York offices and has served as a director on the board of the Jackson Laboratory.
Earlier in her career, Caroline was a consultant with Roland Berger Strategy Consultants in Munich. She also worked with the Austrian Academy of Sciences consulting for EU research projects and as a researcher at The Rockefeller University in New York.
Caroline holds a D.Phil. in Molecular Biology from Oxford University and a B.A. in Biology from Smith College in the US. She is co-author of How to Run a Company—Lessons from Top Leaders of the CEO Academy, from Random House, as well as the author of various scientific publications.
Caroline has lived many years in the US as well as in the UK, Germany, Tunisia, The Netherlands and Japan, and has currently settled in Austria. She speaks English, German and French fluently. Her passions are her family, human behaviour, traveling and skiing as much as possible.
Nikolaus Hohenberg
Before joining MAP in 2022, Nikolaus worked for an alternative investment advisory firm in London, marketing alternative investment products structuring managed account solutions for Austrian and German institutional investors. He was Head of Debt Capital Markets (“DCM”), Financial Institutions Germany/Austria, at UBS, London, from 2004 to 2011, leveraging existing relationships into new client wins for profitable high-profile deals, doubling P&L for Austrian business, and maintaining P&L stability for German business throughout the banking crisis. Prior to UBS, he worked at ABN AMRO Bank, building up of a DEM bond new issue franchise, strengthen ABN AMRO’s DCM origination in Germany and Austria, achieving book runner status for ABN AMRO in German/Austrian bond transactions in all major currencies, and serving as Head, in the London Office, Fixed Income Origination, Germany/Austria. Hr holds a law degree for the University of Salzburg.
Oslo
Elisabeth VegelElisabeth Vegel, as a partner at Ben Agere, has had extensive experience in the design and management of complex business transformation and strategy execution programs within both the private and public sectors—with an emphasis on risk management and on orchestrating expertise in large operations, in which progress is measurable.
She was a Principal at Capgemini from 2000-2006 where she ran comprehensive improvement programs within various industries including financial services, manufacturing, travel and transportation, oil and gas. Before that she was a Senior Manger within Ernst & Young management Consulting.
Among other credentials, Ms. Vegel is a graduate of the Norwegian Business School’s Management Program, with a specialty in Organizational Psychology.
Cathrine Foss Stene
Before joining MAP in 2022, Catherine spent ten years as a partner at Implement Consulting Group where she advised leaders of large organizations in Asia, Africa, MENA, Europe, and Scandinavia on complex problems of strategy, transformation processes, team performance, and structural design, and leadership. She had previously held chairperson and board of director responsibilities in several different industrial sectors, including IT Infrastructure, media, food production, and transportation/logistics. At Schibsted, SAS, and ManpowerGroup, she held executive (and P&L) responsibilities for organizational development and Group level HR. Catharine holds an Advanced Management Program (AMP) from Harvard Business School and an MBA from the Norwegian School of Economics, Bergen. She also has extensive experience and certifications in the coaching of individuals and teams.
Oslo & Zurich
Knut A. RevlingKnut A. Revling is one of MAP's two managing partners. He was previously General Manager and Partner in a leading global search firm where he was responsible for building and directing the Global Leadership Assessment practice, and for the work in this practice of forty senior consultants worldwide, winning the Team Award during his final year. He obtained and directed engagements with a roster of the world's largest, most dynamic corporations.
Previously he had been Vice President, Management Audit and Executive Search, at A. T. Kearney/EDS, and a member of both that firm's Financial Institutions Group and its Human Capital Management Group.
During 1992-1996, he was Royal Norwegian Consul in Stuttgart, and then served with the Norwegian Embassy in Brussels, both on behalf of the Norwegian Trade Council, for which he was responsible for advancing his country's interests with Europe's leading public and private corporations. Prior to this term in government service, Mr. Revling was a Senior Consultant with Carre Orban (now part of Korn/Ferry International), and a Consultant with Ward Howell/JB International (one of the world's largest executive search firms).
After duty in the Royal Norwegian Navy, he began his business career in 1981 as an executive with Scandinavian Airlines. He holds science degrees from the Free University of Berlin (1976) and from Henrich Heine University, Dusseldorf (1981). He currently serves as chairman of his local conservative party, as well as president of his Rotary Club.
Shanghai
Gary WangBased in Shanghai, Gary Wang is Founder and CEO of MindSpan, China's branded market leader in Executive Coaching and Leadership Development. MindSpan's clients include Microsoft, Ford, Deloitte, BCG, IBM, GE, J&J, Roche, BI, ABB, Bosch, MSD, GSK, Mars, eBay, Texas Instruments, Nike, Bayer, Covestro, COACH, Oracle, Jaguar Land Rover, State Street, Chanel, Saint-Gobain, BP, Intel, Richemont, Chanel, Philips, NUS, Lenovo, Huawei, Alibaba, Tencent, JD.com and Midea.
Gary is one of the Thinkers50 Leading Global Coach awardees and producer of the China Executive Coaching Conference. Prior to MindSpan, Gary worked as a senior executive in DuPont and Sony, being the Greater China Country Manager for DuPont Imaging Technologies and National Account Manager for Sony Consumer Electronics China.
Winston WangWinston Wang, before joining MAP, spent twenty years in the retail sector, holding executive positions as National Commercial Manager of Johnson & Johnson Pharmaceuticals China; Regional GM - China North of A.S. Watson Group, the world's leading health and beauty retailer in Asia and Europe with over 15,200 stores in twenty-five markets; Operations VP of C&A China; and CEO - Asia Pacific of INTERSPORT Group, the world's leading sporting goods company.
Winston holds a Master of Change Management in Business from BI Norwegian Business School. He is also a certified practitioner of SPOT facilitation and Lumina Learning of psychometric assessment. He speaks fluent English and Mandarin.
Shanghai & Singapore
Lien Siaou-SzeIn addition to consulting for Management Alignment Partners, Ms. Lien Siaou-Sze is the Senior Executive Coach at Mobley Group Pacific. Prior to this, she was the Senior Vice President at HP Asia-Pacific & Japan (APJ) before retiring in 2007.
She began her career at HP as a systems engineer and rose through the management ranks in Singapore, Southeast Asia, and the APJ region. She became the first woman in the region to be made Vice-President and later became its first female Senior Vice President. After her promotion to Managing Director of HP APJ, she oversaw the acquisition of Compaq and was featured in Fortune Magazine's "50 Most Powerful Women in Business Outside of USA" list for six consecutive years.
In addition to serving on the NTU Board of Trustees, Ms. Lien is also a Board Member at NTU's Confucius Institute. She also serves on the boards of Japfa Ltd, an Asia-based agri-food company and Elekta Ab (publ), a Swedish MNC in the medical technology sector.
Ms. Lien graduated from Nanyang University with a Bachelor of Science in Physics. She went on to receive her Masters degree in Computer Science from Imperial College London.
Shanghai & Washington
Helen YangHelen Yang has led diverse businesses and functions in global markets. Until recently, she worked in various roles with DuPont in China, including as Asia pacific Director Imaging Technologies, managing Director of Corporate Operations for Greater China, Asia Pacific Planning & Improvement Director for DuPont performance Coatings, and Corporate marketing and Sales Director for North Asia/Australia/New Zealand. She has been elected to the Board of Governors of the American Chamber of Commerce in Shanghai.
Dr. Yang holds a Ph.D. and M.S. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Illinois and a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania, from which she graduated summa cum laude. Her major certifications include ones from the Financial Times Non-Executive Director program and from the Knowledge Intensive Growth Program at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School.
St. Louis
Elizabeth ChestertonElizabeth Chesterton has consulted with global financial, consumer credit, energy, agricultural, and other major institutions for over 25 years to ensure peak performance among their leadership and management teams. She designs the strategy, programs and processes to drive performance and productivity among executives, managers, and teams. By blending tailored group programs and system-wide coaching processes, she measurably enhances corporate cultures.
Elizabeth holds an M.Ed and B.S. in Human and Organizational Development from Vanderbilt University. She is a master certified coach in Asset-Based Thinking, as well as in other assessment processes.
Stockholm
Gerard De GeerMr. De Geer was previously Partner for Strategy, Operations and Business Control at IK Investment Partners. His responsibilities covered all IK portfolio companies as well as its Industrial Advisory Board. From 1994 - 2001, he was Vice President, AT Kearney, with responsibilities for Swedish operations and for Kearney's Global Automotive and Change practices. Previously he had been Senior Vice President, Ovako Steel, a Scandinavian-based steel manufacturer, and before that he was Managing Director, Ovako Tube AB, also based in Sweden.
He serves on the boards of four IK Invest portfolio companies, and served previously on corporate boards in the telecom, retailing, manufacturing, and engineering sectors.
Mr. De Geer holds an MBA from Harvard Business School, and a Master of Science in Economics from the Stockholm School of Economics. He is a Captain in the Reserves, Royal Mountain Rangers, Sweden.
Bo KaunitzBo Kaunitz has advised major global companies as well as major private equity funds for over thirty years. His experience includes a spectrum of industries such as automotive, general manufacturing, telecom, pharmaceutical, retail (both food and non-food), logistics and postal as well as the financial industry. In terms of functional areas Bo has covered major global M&A projects (both pre deal and post-merger integration), corporate strategy as well as large performance improvement programs.
Experience includes four years as senior partner at Oliver Wyman, where he was responsible for the Nordic M&A and Private Equity practice as well as the Consumer, Industrials and Services practices. Before Oliver Wyman, Bo spent nearly twenty years at A. T. Kearney as senior partner with several Nordic and reginal/global leaderships roles. He started his career with Accenture and later worked at IBM in Sweden and France. He is also an angel investor and advisor to several successful start-ups and smaller private equity firms in Sweden such as Einride, Medicheck and Indequity. Bo holds an Executive MBA from the Stockholm School of Economics/The Wharton School and a M Sc. In Industrial Management Engineering from the Linkping Institute of Technology.
Karin Lagerstedt Woolford
Until joining MAP in 2022, Karin served during the previous dozen years as CHRO and member of the Executive Management Teams in Intrum AB (Swedish stock-listed pan-European debt collector), Eltel AB (a Nordic stock listed telecommunications company), Ovako AB (specialty steel producer), and Green Cargo AB (Swedish state-owned rail freight service provider). She has been deeply involved in Remuneration Committee work with the Boards of Directors for each of these companies. She has extensive experience with corporate turnarounds, transformation, and implementing cultural shifts—as at SEB, a leading Northern European financial services group, where she led the establishment of new top executive incentive structures and also implemented a major competency shift in the Retail division. At Ovako AB, she established a strong safety culture and introduced lean management processes.
Since 2018, she has been a member of the Customer Board in Skandia, the mutual insurance company. Karin holds a M.Sc. in International Business Administration from the Gothenburg School of Economics and Commercial Law.
Stuttgart
Stephan MayerDr. Mayer was a Partner at A. T. Kearney until 2010, where his responsibilities included serving as Practice Leader for Supply Chain Integration, head of the Stuttgart office, and member of the officer appraisal committee.
Client account responsibilities included Daimler, Volkswagen, and others. In addition to experience in Logistics, Strategic Sourcing, and Manufacturing within the automotive sector, Dr. Mayer has particular expertise in media, consumer goods, and in electronics with experience in turnarounds and sales planning.
He earned his Ph.D at Fraunhofer Gesellschaft, IPA Stuttgart (1979) and his Dipl-Ing., Mechanical Engineering, at the University of Stuttgart (1975).
Sydney
Grace W. HoGrace has been an advisor and coach to executive leadership across the public, private, and social sectors for over 20 years. She has worked worldwide with clients on complex issues, ranging from strategy formulation and market entry to risk assessments and cultural change. In over a decade at McKinsey & Co., Grace applied these skills in organizational transformation and leadership development. In her later years at McKinsey, she led the Diversity and Inclusion function in Asia where she drove DEI initiatives across 16 countries, touching on all aspects of the employee lifecycle.
Complementing her work with MAP, Grace works as a Leadership Facilitator and Executive Coach with clients ranging from Fortune 500 executive teams to next-generation tech leaders hailing from underrepresented communities (e.g., LGBTI, women). She also serves on the Advisory Board of Multicultural NSW – a government agency which strives for social inclusion and cohesion.
She holds an MBA from the University of Pennsylvania (Wharton), and a Bachelor of Commerce (Hons 1) from the University of New South Wales. Grace completed her Professional Coaching Certification through New Ventures West.
Washington
Derek LeebartDerek Leebaert co-founded MAP in 2003-2004 with Knut Revling. He has conducted cross-border strategic alignment engagements in the medical device, energy, and information technology sectors, as well as in financial services--with special reference to insurance and reinsurance.
He has been responsible for MAP's own development strategy and for managing MAP's proprietary analytical technologies. Before creating MAP, Derek was a founder in 1995 of Linguateq, the premier company in telecommunications data interoperability. Linquateq grew rapidly in tandem with customers such as AT&T and Alcatel, and with Polaris Ventures as a financial partner. Linguateq was sold in 2001 to SONUS Networks and its patents and technologies are part of the Internet backbone.
Before Linguateq, Derek was a principal in the Chicago-based LBO firm R. H. Missner & Co, acquiring Intermarket media and selling it to Euromoney, among other transactions. With economist David Smick, he was also a founding editor of The International Economy, a specialized magazine covering global financial policy, economic trends, and international trade. Before that, he served in Washington as Chief Economist of the Information Technology Industry Council (previously CBEMA).
Among the many books he has written is a trilogy from The MIT Press on the evolution of the information economy (co-author), including The Future of the Electronic Marketplace, and his best-selling To Dare and To Conquer: Special Operations and the Destiny of Nations. The latter volume addresses elite selection, as well as commando creativity and innovation. The book is required reading within the US Special Operations Command. Its insights are also applied widely in business.
Derek holds a D.Phil. in Economics from Oxford University (1983), was a visiting fellow at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government, and was appointed a postdoctoral research fellow at Harvard's Center for Science and International Affairs. He received a BA in Economics from Vanderbilt University and an MPP degree from Columbia University. He served for two years in the US Marine Corps Reserve. He is currently a trustee of Providence Hospital in Washington D.C. and of other public service institutions. As time allows, Derek independently backs early-stage ventures in advanced social technologies.
John CurleyJohn Curley has represented the United States Government for over forty years as a senior manager, contractor, and consultant; holding key positions within Naval Aviation, the Federal Aviation Administration, and the Internal Revenue Service, as well as with the U.S. Department of the Treasury. Responsibilities have included crisis management, risk assessment, and strategic planning. He is certified as a project manager, professional coach, and as a federal mediator, and he has mediated EEO cases within the Executive Office of the President.
Such duties have extended to executing complex organizational transformation projects for the U.S. Government.
John was trained at the Executive Institute of the U.S. Treasury Department as a coach to senior federal leaders. He holds an Advanced Executive Coaching graduate diploma (2021) from the University of Cambridge, Churchill College, and Moller Institute. He completed both the Executive Coaching and Group Coaching programs at the University of Cambridge (2018), and he served on the International Coaching Federation's Washington, D.C. chapter's Board of Directors. He holds a Post Graduate Diploma in Public Financial Management from the University of London (2007) and a Master's of Administration, with a concentration in Management of Information Technology, from Johns Hopkins University (1994).