Curriculum Vitae 

Tobias Palm 
Isestraße 84 
20149 Hamburg 
0049 157 88 1000 38  
tobias.palm@posteo.de 

Professional Experience
The Boston Consulting Group GmbH 11/2017 – today
Business-Consultant (excerpt) Hamburg, DE
 Sell-Side support for German-Polish sleeper and turnouts producer (>1,000 employees)
‐ Conceptualization, preparation and CEO-alignment of two 90-minute site-visit-concepts; sole responsibility
for local setup of production plants incl. four ~5h-COO-Coaching-appointments using ‘investor-songsheets’
‐ Preparation of the 62-pages Investor-Presentation and alignment with owner and investment bank
‐ Responsibility for filling the Virtual Data Room including responsibility for aligning the investment bank on
the >3,300 blackened documents in cooperation with clients’ Legal Head on basis of structured check-ins
 Large-scale, 5-year, digital transformation project of leading German insurer (>10,000 employees)
‐ Conducting and presenting a status-quo-benchmarking of the digital solution with 11 select competitors
including structured assessment of the respective customer journeys and competitors’ digital offerings
‐ Preparation of enablement-concept for future journeys, e.g. preparing a methodological booklet with 52
agile tools, a 12-week-sprint-plan and in-depth presentation of the eight relevant preparatory processes
‐ Detailed process mapping of three status quo end-to-end certification processes including identification of
customer and employee PainPoints, process-leaps and mapping of the ideal target-process
‐ Responsibility for organizing and executing 23 customer-, employee- and sales force interviews incl.
testing of the new digital solution on basis of a new, structured interview guide
‐ Support of works council negotiations and further PMO-activities incl. board-alignments
‐ Preparation of 5-year-business case with 5 m€ savings p.a. based on gradual journey-acceleration
 Target-search & strategy project for sensor market entry for German tech company (>12,000 employees)
‐ Analysis of two market segments in the sensor market based on 17 structured expert interviews incl.
market size, number/activities of active players, end-to-end value-chain-analysis, interdependencies,
partnerships, entry-barriers and technological developments
‐ Preparation of three company profiles including action-recommendations as well as synthesis and
preparation of the results for presentation to the board

Teach First Deutschland gGmbH 05/2014 – 07/2016

Fellow Hamburg, DE
 Leadership of six courses in Mathematics, English, Economics/Business Administration and Sports for
grades 9&10 at Hamburg’s integrated comprehensive school Mümmelmannsberg for ~100 pupils
 Founding of the pupils’ company gsm Company for 60 pupils, responsibility for the 8-person-teacher-
team, leadership of the Marketing-course, winning the 2016 award of Hamburg businesses (2.500€)
 Initiation and responsibility for the project week gsm Building Existence for 24 pupils, e.g. including
interview trainings by Accenture and shadowing days at Google, Deutsche Bank and SPIEGEL

Hamburgisches WeltWirtschaftsInstitut 01/2014 – 05/2014

Intern Hamburg, DE
 Independent research and publication of the Policy Paper „Neun Thesen zum Bedingungslosen
Grundeinkommen” (ISBN 2364-3056; english: ‚Nine hypotheses regarding Basic Income Grants‘)
 Conducting several workshops and presentations on Basic Income Grants at the Robert-Bosch-
Foundation in Berlin and at the ev. Studienwerk Villigst e.V. for all-in-all 130 participants

Arkwright Consulting AG 09/2013 – 12/2013

Intern Hamburg, DE
 Researching and contrasting direct and indirect competitors in the financial services sector and deducting
future positioning-strategies for the client
 Database-oriented analysis of market developments (incl. predictions) in the financial services sector
 Conducting customer interviews for IT-Products for financial services providers and preparation of the
results for client management
 
Education
The London School of Economics, M.Sc. International Management 09/2016 – 09/2017
Focus on courses in decision sciences, world trade, and platform strategies London, UK
Final grade: Distinction/Distinction

Yale School of Management, exchange term 01/2017 – 05/2017

Focus on courses in Finance and Leadership New Haven, US
Research assistant to Prof. Victoria Brescoll
Final grade: Honors/High Honors

University of St. Gallen, B.A. HSG Economics 09/2010 – 09/2013

Focus on courses in Microeconomics, Econometrics, and Philosophy St. Gallen, CH
Research assistant to Prof. Martin Kolmar
Final grade: 5.3/6.0

University of Southern California, Marshall Business School, exchange term 01/2013 – 05/2013
Focus on courses in Finance, Marketing and Anthropology Los Angeles, US
Final grade: 3.8/4.0

Gymnasium Röthenbach a.d. Pegnitz, A-Levels 09/2000 – 06/2009

Advanced courses in Mathematics and Economics Röthenbach/Pegnitz, DE
Final grade: 1.6/1.0

Extracurriculars
Christusträger Bruderschaft 09/2011 – 01/2017
Guest house/monastery ‚Kloster Triefenstein‘ Lengfurt, DE
 Initiation and implementation of the yearly Seminar Studentenfutter for 30 participants
 Foundation of alumni-network GCT for up to 220 former volunteers; leadership of five 4-8 member-teams
 Appointment to the committee ‚Freundesrat‘ and ‚AG Triefenstein‘, responsibility for the youth-
engagement-work in this 14-people board for a redirection of the guest houses’ strategy

Evangelisches Studienwerk Villigst 09/2011 – 04/2014

Scholarship organization Schwerte, DE
 Conducting interviews with and selection of 10 future stipend-holders and co-founding the scientific
committee ‚AG Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft‘, co-organiser of a conference on Basic Income Grants
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University of St. Gallen 10/2010 – 05/2017
Extramural commitments St. Gallen, CH
 Student-magazine prisma: Responsibility for a team of six as ‚Head of Campus‘, initiation of the
professors’ column, publishing of about 20 articles and interviews
 SHSG Evaluation Team ‘Teaching’: Conducting a survey regarding the contextual studies program for
1,100 students, presentation of results and improvement suggestions for university representatives

Scholarships
German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) 2016 – 2017
Protestant Academic Merit Foundation Villigst e.V. 2010 – 2017

Language and software skills

Deutsch Mother tongue MS Office Very good
Englisch Fluent STATA, R, Javascript Good
Spanisch & Russisch Basics Wordpress Good

Hobbies
Rugby Forwards-Captain, Coach, Yale Most Valuable Player of MBA World Rugby Tournament 2017
Wintersports Ski, Snowboard, Skiing-tours
Travel Especially Eastern Europe and Russia, several language courses and summer schools