Roland Berger appoints partners in Greater China and Singapore

Global strategy consulting firm Roland Berger has appointed four new partners in Asia, welcoming Laurent Doucet to its partnership in Hong Kong, Huxiong Xu in China, and Aditya Agarwal and Jiri Krivacek in Singapore.

Laurent Doucet has over 15 years of professional consulting experience with an extensive international background having worked out of Europe, North America and for the last two years Asia, where he is based in Hong Kong.

The Frenchman joined Roland Berger a decade ago, and has during this time helped clients on topics including strategy, transformation, mergers & acquisitions, and private equity investments. His track record includes engagements for both multinational and local clients in the insurance, retail banking, and asset management industries.

Doucet is also an expert on digital and operations topics – leading large transformation program for financial services players, involving a significant digital component to achieve top line, customer excellence and efficiency objectives.

Huxiong Xu is a partner in Roland Berger’s Shanghai office and a member of Automotive practice. He specializes in the automotive sector, and has strong expertise in both the passenger vehicles and commercial vehicles segments, especially in topics of company strategy, mobility, customer journey, product planning and project management.

Prior to joining Roland Berger, Xu worked among others for Arthur D. Little and McKinsey & Company.

Aditya Agarwal is a partner in Roland Berger’s Health and Life Sciences practice, based out of Singapore. He works with clients in the healthcare, life sciences, consumer health and private equity sectors on investment decisions and large scale commercial & operations transformation programs.

Prior to joining Roland Berger in 2020, Agarwal worked with EY-Parthenon, industry specialist IMS Consulting Group, Deloitte Consulting, and Capgemini Invent.

Jiri Krivacek works with private equity companies, sovereign wealth funds, infrastructure funds, financial advisers and strategic investors through commercial due diligence, target screening and value creation. He has supported a high number of sell-side and buy-side transactions across numerous sectors in ASEAN.

Krivacek brings over 15 years of experience to Roland Berger’s partnership, including over a decade with the German-origin strategic consultancy.