Author: Daniel Diemers

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Partner, Financial Services, at Strategy& (formerly Booz & Company, Booz Allen Hamilton), serving clients in the financial services industry in development of successful growth strategies. His industry expertise covers retail and wholesale banking, private banking/ wealth management, consumer finance and insurance. Preferred themes are growth strategies, market entry/ regional expansion, digital innovation/ FinTech, operating model optimization, and risk & regulatory management. Prior to that, worked in other consultancy firms, advising major players in the financial services industry (banks, regulators, insurance companies) on questions of strategy, organization, and risk management. Daniel has worked with blue chip clients across Europe and the Middle East and is based in Zurich Switzerland.

It was a wonderful indian summer day in Boston, Massachusetts back in 1999, sailing boats were battling it out on Charleston River, joggers lined the river banks, and many a Red Sox fan was silently dreaming and hoping that one day, yes one day, their cursed team may win the world series again. At the MIT Media Lab — back then, one of the culmination points where all things digital were being research and thought through by a multinational, highly switched on crowd of academics — I had the pleasure to attend a conference labelled “The Future of Cars”, where…

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