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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
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.
Sandy Torrekens, MBA
Value Chain Strategy and 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.
Abdul Maulud, IT Bs
S4/HANA & Digital Transformation
25+ years of experience with SAP and IT architecture, 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.
Our Advisory Partners
Paul Plouhmans, PhD
Business Transformation
25+ years of experience in R&D, software development, and consulting. Specialises in strategy, operational improvement, and implementation across various sectors, including chemicals, retail, pharma, distribution, logistics, and banking.
Stephen Clifford
SAP Programme Lead
SAP programme leader across multiple industry sectors. Ex PwC qualified accountant. Disaster recovery/turnaround Director for Coca Cola, Samsonite, InBev, SAP. Managed RFP’s / RFI’s to select ERP solution and SI partners.
Dhruva Banerjee, PhD
Manufacturing and 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
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 organisations.
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
Manufacturing and 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.
Theresa Bär, MBA
Commercial Excellence
20+ years as a commercial director and in sales and marketing roles across multinational and small pharma/bio companies (Bayer, Sanofi, GSK, and Alexion). Helps businesses successfully turn around product portfolios and launch new products.
Our Delivery Consultants
Fernando Alvarez, MSc
Logistics Consultant
An industrial engineer specialising 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
Strategy and Analytics
An expert in data analytics who helps structure large amounts of data for decision-making. Holds a PhD in AI and data mining and an MSc in automation and robotics.
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
Business Analyst
A motivated junior consultant supporting clients with data analysis, sales and commercial strategy, and business analysis. Helps businesses leverage the expertise of experienced advisors.
Paulo Filipe
SAP and 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
Chemicals and Operations
Retired as CSCO of Diversey, a leading specialty chemicals company. Known for a pragmatic approach to change, developed through managing numerous mergers and acquisitions.
Luc Tanghe
Warehousing and Logistics
With 47 years of experience in warehousing and logistics, Luc is considered a true guru in the field. Luc not only acts as a guide in the business area; he is still regularly called in to act as interim manager to turn distribution operations around.
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.”
“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?'”
Partner With Us For Success
Ready to elevate your business performance? Contact Alpha Business Advisors today to learn how we can drive sustainable growth for your organisation.