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Alpha Business Advisors: Your Strategic Partners

At Alpha Business Advisors, we specialise in transforming business challenges into opportunities for growth. Our seasoned experts are dedicated to crafting strategies that bridge the gap between vision and execution, ensuring sustainable success for your enterprise.

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Our Founding Partners

Patrick Rigoni, PhD

Patrick Rigoni, PhD

Dealing With Increasing Uncertainty

30+ years of experience in industry (J&J and Mylan) and consultancy, tackling complex planning and decision-making challenges across highly diverse businesses. A Thought Leader bringing your planning into the 21st century.

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 Sandy Torrekens, MBA

Sandy Torrekens, MBA

Value Chain Strategy & Cost Challenges

28+ years of Value Chain consulting experience gained at PWC, E&Y, Bain & Company and several Private Equities. Helps you with soaring Supply Chain costs, deteriorating service levels, and improving profits. Also, an outstanding crisis manager with a proven track record.

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Abdul Maulud, IT Bs

Abdul Maulud, IT Bs

S4/HANA & Digital Transformation

25+ years of experience with SAP/IT Architect, acting as such for some of the most prominent “Blue Chip” organisations: P7G, Kone, Caterpillar, and Accenture. Will help you turn your IT investment from a cost into an opportunity.

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Our Advisory Partners

Paul Plouhmans, PhD

Paul Plouhmans, PhD

Business Transformation

25+ years of experience in R&D, software development, and consulting. Specializes in strategy, operational improvement, and implementation across various sectors, including Chemicals, Retail, Pharma, Distribution, Logistics, and Banking.

Stephen Clifford

Stephen Clifford

SAP programmeme Lead

A successful SAP programmeme Leader with 40+ full life-cycle SAP implementations, including Financial Transformation, HR, Business Performance Management, IT, Accounting Shared Services, Warehouse Management, CRM, Supply Chain, and outsourcing projects.

Dhruva Banerjee, PhD

Dhruva Banerjee, PhD

Manufacturing & Operations

Extensive experience in Pharmaceutical and Consumer businesses across Europe, Asia, and North America. A go-to expert for capacity expansion and cost reduction projects, especially in regulated industries.

Paul Anderson, MSc

Paul Anderson, MSc

Customer Experience

20+ years in SaaS and Consultancy across industries. Aligns critical priorities with relevant experts to create tailored engagement plans that bring tangible benefits to organizations.

Shaun West, PhD

Shaun West, PhD

Supply Chain Innovation

25+ years of industry experience and 10+ years as a leading academic. Supports clients in developing and delivering new services and service-friendly business models. A Thought Leader in Supply Chain innovation.

Boudewijn Dezutter, MBA

Boudewijn Dezutter, MBA

Manufacturing & Operations

25+ years of experience in Manufacturing and Automotive. Former Head of Toyota’s Retail business for EMEA and CEO in the metal and plastics/foam industries.

Our Delivery Consultants

Fernando Alvarez, MSc

Fernando Alvarez, MSc

Logistics Consultant

Industrial Engineer specializing in Electromechanical Engineering Management. Experienced in distribution, warehouse, and network redesign in consumer goods and utilities. Also brings hands-on field sales experience.

Petr Buryan, PhD

Petr Buryan, PhD

Strategy & Analytics

An expert in data analytics who helps structure large amounts of data for decision-making. Holds a PhD in AI & Data Mining and an MSc in Automation & Robotics.

Maria Maslennikova, MSc

Maria Maslennikova, MSc

Strategic Change

Manages strategy and transformation projects from a project and change management perspective, ensuring that the ideas developed by teams and experts are successfully embedded in the business.

Sophie White

Sophie White

Business Analyst

A motivated junior consultant supporting clients with data analysis, sales & commercial strategy, and business analysis. Helps businesses leverage the expertise of experienced advisors.

Theresa Bär, MBA

Theresa Bär, MBA

Commercial Excellence

20+ years as a Commercial Director and in Sales & Marketing roles across multinational and small Pharma/Biotech companies (Bayer, Sanofi, GSK, and Alexion). Helps businesses successfully turn around product portfolios and launch new products.

Paulo Filipe

Paulo Filipe

SAP & Supply Chain

SAP S/4 expert with 20+ years in IT consultancy, designing, developing, deploying, and managing SAP projects across multiple areas, including Procure to Pay (P2P), Warehousing, Logistic Execution (SD-LE, WM & eWM), Order to Cash (O2C), Quality Management (QM), and Production Planning.

Our Éminences Grises

One of ABA’s key differentiators is our extensive network of experts, some of whom serve as independent advisors, providing clients with a sounding board or offering guidance to our consultants.

Lex Tiedemann

Lex Tiedemann

Chemicals & Operations

Retired as COO of Diversey, a leading specialty chemicals company. Known for a pragmatic approach to change, developed through managing numerous mergers and acquisitions.

Why Our Clients Trust Us

We appreciate our clients’ trust and are proud to have their support. Their feedback reflects the value we strive to deliver every day

“Where ABA is positioned differently is that they are practical, get in the weeds and are not at 30,000ft. There are not many companies who do that.”​

Avin Krishnan

SVP Supply Chain EMEA, Solenis

“We now finally have an S&OP process that adds value. […] Through the thousands of back orders, customers continue to comment on, ‘how does Shell do this and keep a Customer Satisfaction Index of 9/10?'”

Richard Wilkinson

Production and Logistics Scheduling Manager Europe, Shell

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Ready to elevate your business performance? Contact Alpha Business Advisors today to learn how we can drive sustainable growth for your organisation.