Dr. Maximilian Matschke runs the strategy consulting firm Anura Partners that he co-founded, working for blue-chip companies and the public sector. He worked across several developed and emerging economies in Europe, Northern America, PR China, Singapore, and several African countries. He focusses on strategy (particularly scenario planning on which he also conducted his PhD), supply chains, investments, transformation, economic development, and marketing & sales.
Max started three social ventures, all addressing the issue of youth employment.
The first of these, founded in 2011, was the student-run consulting firm, the Consulting Academy Johannesburg, which later expanded to Cape Town, Nairobi, and Guadalajara. The second was an entrepreneurship boot camp for unemployed youth, which was successfully piloted and used as a base for a train- the- trainer approach. The third, uNowanga, is an upskilling initiative in collaboration with the international charity, the Order of St John, South Africa. It is a programme to send unemployed youth from South Africa to Germany to train as nurses.
He did his Master’s and Bachelor’s degree in business with mechanical engineering at Technical University in Munich and his honours degree with the Center for Digital Technology and Management in Munich and at Columbia Business School in New York.
Max is a member of the Order of St John.