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Martin East - Managing Director
Martin started his working life at a UK telecommunications company. He has since worked continuously in the fields of telecommunications, computing and strategic sourcing, only taking time off to earn an MBA at INSEAD in Fontainebleau. His career includes positions as key account manager at Germany’s largest computing service provider as well as senior manager with a major international consulting company. Since 2002, he has specialised entirely on optimising telecommunications purchasing and management for large organisations.
Marc Gawley
Marc is a seasoned consultant with many years of experience serving clients in the fields of logistics, operations and telecommunications, where he has put the truly exceptional analytic abilities that earned him a masters degree masters in physics at Oxford University to excellent use. He is responsible for many of the algorithms and techniques that make our dedicated tools so effective. Marc has successfully led project teams and client relationships all over Europe.
Volker Wentz
After completing his MBA in Economics at the University of Tübingen, Volker proved his acumen with a big four accounting company, including a three-year stint as manager of auditing operations in Brazil. Moving into the logistics and operations business, he has held a succession of directorships and CFO positions in ever more substantial company groups within a number of major international organisations.
Martin Meyer
In 1996 Martin graduated in Business Administration from the University of St. Gallen (HSG), Switzerland. He started his career as an external consultant with GMO Management Consulting before he joined Bertelsmann as an internal consultant. After several IT and management assignments within Bertelsmann Martin has focused since 2007 on telecom sourcing. Martin is fluent in German and English. His dedication is to increase customers’ profitability by lowering their external telecom spend.
Maximilian Pampel
After completing his studies with a Master’s degree from the University of Applied Sciences in Stralsund in 2017, he initially worked as an in-house consultant in the insurance industry before becoming a consultant in telecommunications procurement in 2018 – since then he is also a trusted member of the Martin East Associates network. In the past years, he has managed over 40 tenders and renegotiations for large and very large clients as a project manager and/or lead consultant.