Ralf’s extensive business consulting experience includes strategy and organization, performance improvement, post-merger integration, change management & project management. Before joining Arthur D. Little, Ralf studied political sciences with a focus on international economics and quantitative empirical research. He also worked for a number of years at the United Nations Center for Science and Technology for Development. His recent consulting experience includes: Strategy development for an economic promotion agency; Change management for a European Ministry of Finance; New public management consulting for a national Ministry of Transportation; Reorganization and cost reduction in a Prime Minister’s agency of a German Federal State; Information management and organizational assistance at UN HQ.

Petter is the leader of the Global Strategy & Organization, Private Equity and Corporate Finance Practice in the Stockholm office of Arthur D. Little. He is affiliated to the TIME, Health Care and Public Sector practices. His professional focus is on strategy & organization and financial advice to private equity and industrial investors pre and post transactions (e.g. due diligence, valuation, strategy, change management, post merger integration) and governance issues faced by corporations, investors, governments and multi-lateral organizations. Petter holds a Master of Science in Economics and Business Administration from the Stockholm School of Economics and the Rotterdam School of Management.

Thomas Kuruvilla is responsible for Arthur D. Little’s operations in the Middle East and South Asia. Thomas is also the Head of the Strategy and Organization practice.

Thomas has extensive consulting and operational/management experience in the Middle East, Europe and South East Asia in the areas of strategy development & implementation, economic policy development, merger and acquisitions, and performance management – both in public and private sectors. Other industry and functional expertise include Strategy and Organization, Public Sector, Telecoms, Financial Services, Maritime and BPR.

Mr. Kuruvilla has a Bachelor’s degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Kerala University and MBA from the Melbourne Business School, Australia/Asian Institute of Management, Philippines.