Alexander Schmithausen

Dr. Alexander Schmithausen is a Director at Roland Berger IMPEX in Munich, with over ten years of experience in the healthcare sector. He is an expert in restructuring, change management, and performance improvement.

He began his career in strategy and corporate development at a private hospital group in Germany, where he was responsible for M&A and restructuring programs. Following this, he worked for an international consulting firm in London and Munich, leading due diligence projects focused on the European healthcare sector. As an independent consultant, he advised private equity firms in the healthcare market, supporting them with buy-and-build strategies.

Dr. Schmithausen managed the heart center of a renowned university hospital, transforming a decentralized unit into an independent center and adapting the process organization. In this role, he was responsible for strategic alignment and the optimization of processes within the center.

In a further career step, Dr. Schmithausen assumed the role of Chief Operating Officer (COO) and concurrently took on the operational responsibility of Hospital Director within a denominational hospital group. He played a pivotal role in the strategic realignment of the hospital group and was instrumental in planning the merger of two denominational hospital groups.

In addition to his professional engagements, Dr. Schmithausen is an esteemed guest professor at prominent educational institutions such as LMU, the Max Planck Institute, and King's College in Cambridge. He holds a Master's degree in Management and Finance from the University of Edinburgh, a PhD in Biostatistics from the Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich, and completed an Executive Management Program in Health Economics at INSEAD Business School in France.