Axel Borowski

Axel Borowski is a Partner at Strategy& Germany and leads the operations strategy practice for Strategy& Europe as well as our firm’s Enterprise Wide Operations Excellence (EWOE) community in the EMEA region. His professional focus lies on all operations topics in the automotive and the automotive supplier industry for global players, middle-market clients and family owned businesses in Europe and abroad.

His areas of expertise include:

• Strategy-based Global Transformations
• Operations Excellence Programs (Operations Strategy & Footprint, Lean Manufacturing, etc.)
• Definition and implementation of Lean Production Systems and Lean Management Systems
• Enterprise Wide Process Optimizations

Some of his recent client assignments include:

• Global Operations Excellence Program at a global 1st-Tier supplier
• Growth Strategy for a global 1st-Tier supplier
• Footprint Strategy for a family owned automotive 2nd-Tier
• Design and implementation of a Lean Management System in automotive
• Restructuring of 12 European sites for a global 1st-Tier supplier in automotive
• Design and implementation of a Lean Production System at a global automotive supplier
• Developing a turnaround program and massive cost reduction for a leading automotive supplier

Axel Borowski is a mechanical engineer. He holds an MBA in International Business and studied in Cologne, Dresden and London.

Prior to joining Strategy& as a Manager in 2011, he worked for a management consulting firm owned by an OEM and as an engineer in the R&D center of a global 1st tier supplier.