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TransportationDominik Baumeister
Biography
Dominik is a Partner at PwC based in Dubai and leads PwC’s Global and Middle East Transport & Logistics Practices across all of PwC’s Lines of Service. He is also PwC’s Client Lead Partner for the Ministry of Transport & Logistics Services in Saudi Arabia.
In these roles, he advises his Global and Middle Eastern clients in Sectorial, Corporate, and Growth Strategy, M&A, as well as Strategy Implementation, Operating Model design and Restructuring.
Prior to his current roles, Dominik founded Strategy&’s1) Transport & Logistics Practice in Australia, co-lead Booz & Co’s Industrials Practice in Australia and South-East Asia, founded a boutique Private Equity and M&A Advisory firm, and worked for Kearney across Asia Pacific. He also spent some time working for Deutsche Post DHL in Europe.
Across the Transport & Logistics industry, he has supported his clients in Passenger and Freight in Aviation, Maritime, Rail and Road, as well as Post, Parcel, e-Commerce, Contract Logistics and Freight Forwarding. He works with industry leaders, startups, and Private Equity as well as Ministries and Sovereign Wealth funds.
His 25 years of strategy and management consulting experience in both the public and private transport & logistics sectors are complemented by his participation in over 30 Mergers & Acquisitions.
Dominik holds a Master of Business Administration and Engineering (Wirtschaftsingenieur) from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in Germany, with majors in Innovation Management, and a Bachelor of Business Administration and Engineering (Vordiplom) from the Technical University of Cottbus, Germany, with majors in Operations Management. He also holds a Diploma of Chinese Business from the Ocean University of Qingdao, China, and completed his master’s degree in Japan, where he supported a Joint Venture between General Motors and Toyota with a focus on fuel cell innovation.
His project highlights include the European Strategy for a top 3 global road freight player, the Africa & Middle East Strategy for a top 3 global air freight and express courier player, the global M&A strategy for a Japanese Postal operator, the restructuring of the largest Australian Railway operator, the establishment of the Logistics Deputyship for a Middle Eastern Transport Ministry, the pan-Asian operating model of an iconic Australian 3PL, the transformation of the largest Middle Eastern postal operator, or the M&A strategy to establish the leading national logistics champion for a Middle Eastern sovereign wealth fund.