Peter von Loesecke, CEO and Managing Director, The MBA Tour
Peter has over 20 years experience in management consulting and industry. Throughout his career, he helped companies design and implement operational improvements. While working as a management consultant for Arthur D. Little and Applied Value, Peter sold and led engagements with global clients in the medical, consumer, and transportation industries. He has published articles about commodity sourcing strategies, supply chain improvement initiatives, and the link between operational performance and stock valuation. As a management consultant, Peter worked with clients across North America, Europe and Latin America. Throughout his consulting career, he recruited and hired graduate students from a wide breadth of business schools for management consulting positions. He is very interested in working with graduate business programs to identify and recruit talent. Peter earned his MBA from the Johnson School at Cornell University.
Colin Anderson
Colin Anderson was born and raised in Montreal, Canada. He received his Bachelor of Commerce from McGill University and his MBA from Harvard University as a Baker Scholar. After several years as a consultant with The Boston Consulting Group, he was a founding member of the consulting firm, Bain & Co. Inc. (which is a different entity from the investment firm, Bain Capital). During his thirty-five years with Bain, he performed many different functions, from client service and recruiting to managing the administrative, human resources and financial functions. He retired in 2005 as a Director of the firm and as Finance Director. He is currently Vice President of the Board of SVT, a non-profit land trust in Boston’s western suburbs.
William N. Johnson
Now an active volunteer in charitable organizations and an elected leader of his community, William N. Johnson retired in 1999 from his position as a Vice President of Intel Corporation. While at Intel, he led the business integration and evolution of the StrongARM technology, products, and people acquired from Digital Equipment Corporation in 1998. Prior to Intel, Bill spent more than 20 years with Digital's semiconductor design and manufacturing organizations. In his final role as a Digital Vice President, Bill managed its world-wide organization for semiconductor product development and marketing, having successfully transformed it in less than 3 years from a purely captive organization into a >$.5B merchant vendor offering industry leadership Alpha microprocessors, StrongARM microprocessors, network components, and multimedia products. He has managed engineering organizations across the US, in Japan and in Israel, and partnered with multiple companies across Europe and Asia for product development.
Bill holds degrees of Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from Cornell University (1973), Master of Science in Computer Engineering from Stanford University (1974), and Master of Business Administration from Boston University (1982). He also graduated from an executive education program at INSEAD. He has served on the engineering advisory councils for Cornell University, University of California, Berkeley, and University of Cincinnati. In 1991, he was part of a small executive team invited by the People’s Republic of China to educate its top ministers on semiconductor product and technology development. He is a co-inventor of a Digital patent for memory subsystem design, and has both published and presented various technical papers on VLSI microprocessor design. He now lives in Harvard, MA with Laura, his wife of 37 years.