Managing Director & Global Co-Head Automotive, AlixPartners
Dr. Elmar Kades is co-leading the global Automotive & Industrial Industry Group at AlixPartners and has more than 25 years of international experience in EBIT improvement and operational restructuring.
Before AlixPartners, Elmar was with the automotive supplier Knorr-Bremse as chief procurement officer (CPO) for the company’s truck group and then chief operating officer (COO) of the company’s Asian truck division.
He studied chemistry at Julius Maximilian University of Würzburg and holds a PhD in physical chemistry from the University of Zurich.