Philipp Hillenbrand

Philipp is a proven digital entrepreneur with deep expertise in business building. He has built and led successful new ventures and helped established companies evolve beyond traditional core operations and capabilities by adopting start-up practices. An experienced senior leader, Philipp has a demonstrated track record of driving top- and bottom-line growth.

As an entrepreneur, Philipp founded a leading European online-booking platform for camping vacations, leading it as its CEO as it became a digital market leader in less than two years. Before that, he led venture development for a European e-commerce investor, where his accomplishments included helping an international food-delivery start-up prepare itself operationally (including a performance transformation) for an IPO.

Philipp also has deep experience with established companies. Previously, he served as a McKinsey consultant, helping clients by using advanced analytics–driven approaches to strategy, growth, and improving organizational performance. Prior to that, he held roles in business development, sales, and marketing at several multinational financial-services companies in Latin America.

Examples of his recent client experience include the following:

• architecting, launching, and leading (on an interim basis) a business scale-up factory for a multinational oil and gas company, including the launch of four discrete new ventures
• designing and launching the technology incubator of an Asian telecommunications leader
• creating a new B2B2C digital-attacker unit for a major payment service provider, with a focus on digitally enabled growth
• leading the organizational redesign of a large digital company to ensure further scaling capacity