With more than 21 years of experience in consulting and industry, Dr. Haibach has worked with automotive OEMs and suppliers, electronics and optical equipment systems providers and industrial machinery vendors, robotics and factory automation. He has been involved in projects relating to technology benchmarking, cost down, design to value, product portfolio optimization and go-to-market strategy.   

Dr. Haibach’s notable assignments include conducting large transformation programs for international high-tech corporates, including redesigning product development processes, introducing value engineering and implementing scaled agile hardware development. For example, he optimized the global research and development footprint and implemented a global operating model for a microelectronics and power semiconductor company.  

Additionally, Dr. Haibach served as CRO for a global Automotive Tier-1 supplier, leading the integration of an acquired company and managing the restructuring of its global footprint and operations. He also conducted several operational due diligences at Tier1/Tier2 suppliers, technology providers and engineering firms, supporting international strategic investors and private equity firms. Dr. Haibach also re-defined the procurement approach to improve automotive suppliers and OEMs resilience to supply chain disruptions. 

Prior to joining A&M, Dr. Haibach served as Principal and Head of the Industrial Goods and Services Practice at Arthur D. Little Central Europe, Principal at PwC Strategy& and Senior Consultant at Management Engineers. In his industrial career, Dr. Haibach spent nine years with Infineon Technologies, first as a development engineer, then as Head of the Innovation Management department. He also held leadership roles at Qimonda and SCHOTT. At SCHOTT, he served as Head of Strategy and Business Development for Concentrated Solar Power, also leading an association of 30 German small and medium-sized enterprises and designing the value chain for thermal solar power plant construction in North Africa, MENA and the U.S.  

Dr. Haibach earned a bachelor’s degree in physics from the Technical University of Darmstadt and a ​PhD in physics from the University of Mainz.