About Dr. Gunnar Binnewies

Dr. Gunnar Binnewies is Managing Director at Fortlane Partners in Munich. He is Head of Organisations, People & Performance. He also heads the Healthcare Practice and supports clients from the pharmaceutical, hospital and medtech sectors with growth and digitalisation projects.

 

He has extensive expertise in management consulting. He specialises in restructuring, in particular personnel restructuring programmes. He often acts as a mediator between employers and employees with the aim of making the organisation as a whole fit for the future in terms of locations, skills and processes. With his team of 30 colleagues, he ensures that staff restructuring is carried out quickly, cost-effectively, quietly, comprehensibly and, above all, with a view to the future.

 

Dr. Gunnar Binnewies studied business economics and business sciences at the University of Bayreuth, the ESC Rouen in France as well as the University of Hannover and gained his doctoral degree at the University of Bayreuth.

Dr. Gunnar Binnewies
Dr. Gunnar Binnewies
Managing Director
Restructuring and Turnaround, Organizational Performance and People, Carve-out and PMI, Workforce Transformation, Healthcare and Life Sciences
Munich, Germany
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