Getting back to the top! Automation as the key to competitiveness in Europe

In collaboration with VDMA and Fraunhofer IPA, our Partners Bernhard Langefeld and Christian Böhler are hosting a webinar on how automation is driving competitiveness in Europe. The session will address key challenges facing manufacturers—such as rising costs and labor shortages—and explore how automation, robotics, and AI can help SMEs navigate these issues. For further details, please contact Antonia Fahlbusch.

Stuttgarter Panel discussion with StZ and L-Bank

Join our Global Managing Director Marcus Berret for a high‑profile panel discussion on “Automotive Industry in Transition”. Together with leading figures from politics and business, the discussion will address the profound changes shaping the automotive sector. The panel will feature, among others, Winfried Kretschmann, Minister‑President of the State of Baden‑Württemberg, Ola Källenius, CEO of Mercedes‑Benz Group, and Martina Merz, Supervisory Board Member of Robert Bosch GmbH and Member of the Board of Volvo Group. For more information, please contact Annette Martin .

Michael Caracache

Senior Partner, Managing Director Middle East

Riyadh Office

, Middle East

+966 11 233-7002

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Michael Caracache has been with our Middle East office since January 2010. With nearly 25 years of consulting and industry experience, he has worked extensively with both blue-chip and family-owned companies across Europe and the Middle East.

He is currently a Senior Partner and Managing Director in the Middle East, leading our CEI practice in the region as well as heading our Riyadh office in Saudi Arabia. His consulting work has centred on national transformation programs, economic growth, and strategy development for governmental entities and state-owned enterprises.

Michael studied Electrical Engineering at the American University of Beirut and holds a Master of Science in Communications Engineering from TUM Germany as well as an MBA from INSEAD France. 

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