Dipl.-Betriebswirt (FH), BA
Dirk Otto
- Managing Partner -

Overview

Studied business administration in Germany and the United Kingdom

20 years' professional experience in management positions and specialist areas

Certificate programme in international retail management. (University of St. Gallen)

Restructuring manager (GSO Mgmt. Institute, Nuremberg)

International experience
UK, Asia, Spain, Latin America, Switzerland

Functions
Consultant/project manager, managing director, member of group management team, head of category management

Operational experience

Process reengineering
Consumer goods & retailing, vertically integrated luxury brand, engineering, clothing trading groups, listed food & non-food trading company, medium- sized textile company

Reorganisation / restructuring
Vertically integrated luxury brand Clothing trading companies FMCG trading company

Corporate turnaround management
B2B service provider, medium-sized textile company (production)

Business start-up
Vertically integrated luxury brand Business-to-business service

International expansion management
Consumer goods sector, vertically integrated luxury brand

Strategic realignment
Clothing trading group

Professional career

After studying business administration (five semesters in London & Hong Kong), he started his career with THE BOSTON CONSULTING GROUP in Madrid in 1990. Following two years in BCG‘s Madrid office he moved to their Munich office. He worked on projects in Germany and abroad (Mexico), primarily in the engineering sector.

1994 Joined the Bally Group (Switzerland) as assistant to the CEO.

1996 Managing director of Bally's Spanish subsidiary.

1999 Member of the Bally Group's management board in Switzerland.

2000 Country manager at the Spanish INDITEX Group (Zara).

Prior to the launch of Management Support Partners in late 2001 he performed various advisory and interim management roles.