Klaus Richter
Business development in Germany, Eastern Europe & Russia

Dr. Klaus Richter is a veteran in the field of IT, multimedia and telecommunications. He has amassed over 20 years of experience in research, consultancy and public policy advice to multinational clients and EU institutions. Since 1990, when he founded his own consultancy, he focuses on international projects for telecommunications and service industry, specialising on business development in old and new Europe. Prior to that, he had spent close to 10 years at Scientific Consulting Dr. Schulte-Hillen as project director and vice president , with responsibility for finance and information management. Glasnost and perestroika brought him to Russia, where during the last decade he has spent a substantial part of his life, and has made a lot of valuable and reliable contacts. Together with Eric Fermaud from Lyon he has formed their “Xeops” named consulting boutique to become a preferred address for financial engineering and CEE projects. In addition to his extensive experience, Klaus is a highly respected member of numerous professional associations: Chairman of Business Consultants International, Member of German Public Policy Advisors, Representative in the ECIC group of FEACO, the European Federation of Management Consulting Associations, Certified Management Consultant according to the rules of the ICMCI, etc. He is also much sought after as a speaker for high-level seminary courses, panel discussions and academic lectures. A German national, Klaus graduated from the University of Göttingen with a Scholarship of the Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes in Applied Physics in 1981. He is a Euro polyglot , including Russian, and is currently based in Cologne with his wife and daughter, who started to study media design in 2005.