Hendrik Niklas Walter

Hendrik leads the consumer products and retail strategy team at EY-Parthenon GmbH in Germany and acts as managing partner for the EY-Parthenon Strategy office in his hometown of Hamburg. With nearly two decades of strategy consulting experience, Hendrik focuses on corporate strategy development, business model excellence and transformation, as well as mergers and acquisitions (M&A) for a broad range of clients mostly in the consumer products and retail sector. In addition, he has extensive experience supporting financial investors with commercial due diligence, focusing on innovative business models and technologies across a wide range of sectors and geographies. Hendrik holds a degree in Business Administration from EBS University in Germany as well as an MBA from the Joseph M. Katz Graduate School of Business, University of Pittsburgh, USA. How Hendrik is building a better working world “I am passionate about creating sustainable impacts for my clients, the EY organization and beyond. I achieve this by being part of a winning, collaborative, and multi-faceted consumer products and retail sector team. For me, empowerment of talent, appreciation of unconventional ideas that challenge the status quo, as well as a future-oriented perspective, are key drivers of success.”