Rainer Bernnat is a leading practitioner in IT strategies and a Partner at Strategy& Germany. He leads the European IT business and the German public sector business. He also supports clients with his expertise in restructuring and transformation in the financial services industry and in cross-industry, large-scale software development projects.

Rainer serves on the executive board of the German Initiative D21, a collaborative partnership of major enterprises chaired by Germany’s Chancellor, aimed at advancing the country's information society. He also holds the position of Vice President of Special Olympics Germany. Prior to his tenure at Strategy&, he held various roles in sales, marketing, and management at IBM.

Rainer earned a PhD in Business Administration from J.W. Goethe University Frankfurt and a diploma in Business Administration from the Universities of Frankfurt and Pamplona in Spain.

Expertise

• IT strategy, architectures, and organization/governance
• Large-scale IT-driven transformation programs, such as eGovernment implementation projects
• IT-security strategies, such as electronic and cyber security or critical infrastructure protection strategies

Recent client work

• IT-driven transformation program for a German pension agency (process-redesign, organizational change, IT modernization program)
• Long-term impact analysis of IT and innovation for the German national pension agency
• Cost-benefit analysis for the introduction of the electronic healthcard in Germany
• Concept, design and implementation support for multiple international eGovernment programs
• Developing a foreign trade strategy with an emphasis on IT security for Germany’s Federal Ministry of Economy
• Development of a critical infrastructure protection strategies for the German Government with focus on IT impact
• Providing RFID market analysis and segment-specific business case development for several segments of a multinational technology corporation, including public sector, health, and transportation
• Formulating an IT security market entry strategy for the integrated solution portfolio of a multinational technology corporation
• Developing an institution-wide controlling and budgeting strategy and implementation concept for a leading bank in Germany
• Creating IT strategy and architecture projects for global and regional financial institutions in retail, wholesale, and insurance