Dr. Florian Gröne

Florian Gröne is a Strategy& partner advising Telecoms, Media and Technology businesses, primarily across Europe and North America. 

With 20+ years of strategy and transformation consulting experience, he leads PwC’s global consulting practice for the Telecommunications industry.

His areas of expertise include

• Corporate and business unit strategy
• Strategic scenario planning and wargaming
• Business and enterprise architecture
• Growth strategy for digital, data-driven and platform business models
• ESG strategy and transformation
• Operating model design and organization transformation
• Strategic resource realignment and Fit-for-Growth transformation
• Value creation from M&A, JVs and strategic partnerships

A prolific author and frequent contributor to industry conferences and publications, Florian’s ideas and perspectives have been featured in top-tier business publications such as the Financial Times, USA Today, strategy+business, Bloomberg and Forbes.

Prior to joining Strategy&’s predecessor firm Booz Allen Hamilton, which later became Booz & Company, in 2002, he worked as project manager for a B2B e-commerce software company and as a Venture Capital associate with a German early-stage internet and technology fund.

Florian holds a PhD in Corporate Strategy from WHU Beisheim School of Management in Germany, an MBA from the Katz Graduate School of Business at the University of Pittsburgh, a master’s in business from the EBS University of Business and Law in Germany and a master’s in economics from the University of Hagen in Germany.

A dual German/U.S. citizen, he currently resides in Berlin, Germany, after almost a decade based out of New York City.