With more than 25 years of professional experience in industry and consulting, Dr. Haibach has led large transformation programs for international high-tech companies and supported strategic investors and private equity firms in identifying and optimizing future businesses and operations.

Dr. Haibach’s notable assignments include numerous projects with industrial goods manufacturers in defining go-to-market strategies, optimizing product portfolios, and executing design-to-value, design-to-cost, and product benchmarking initiatives. Dr. Haibach has successfully transformed engineering operating models for large corporations and medium-sized enterprises by redefining development footprints, optimizing R&D capital expenditures, and implementing best practices such as scaled agile development. Dr. Haibach acted in operational, technology, and customer due diligence proceedings as a subject matter expert for electronics, semiconductors, industrial automation/robotics, and renewable technologies. Dr. Haibach has worked with clients across various industries, including electronics, semiconductors, renewables, industrial machinery, robotics, factory automation, and automotive original equipment manufacturers and suppliers.

Prior to joining A&M, Dr. Haibach was a Principal and Head of the Industrial Goods and Services Practice at Arthur D. Little Central Europe, a Principal at PwC Strategy&, and a Senior Consultant at Management Engineers.

In his industrial career, Dr. Haibach worked for nine years with Infineon Technologies, first as a Development Engineer, then as Head of the Innovation Management department. At Qimonda, he served as Director of Program Management, leading a global cross-functional cluster of teams for product design, technology development, product qualification, and production ramp-up. At Schott AG, he was Head of Strategy and Business Development for Concentrated Solar Power.     

Dr. Haibach earned a diploma degree in physics from the Technical University of Darmstadt and a PhD in physics from Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany.