Otto W. Obermaier is a long-serving consultant of Spencer Stuart and a member of the Board Practice. His consulting work is focused on succession issues of major family-controlled groups across all industries in German-speaking countries. His client counterparts are usually members of the owner families and their representatives in the supervisory bodies. Areas of advice are the search for non-family members of the non-executive and the executive boards as well as the assessment of internal successors. Furthermore, he deals with related governance issues and engages in workshops and lectures regarding the qualification of family successors.
His board consulting expertise is based on many years of recruiting and assessment work for various industries including the industrial, consumer and media sectors. If particular industry or functional knowledge is required within his succession projects, he systematically includes his colleagues from the relevant Practices in the execution team.
Before entering the field of Executive Search, Otto W. Obermaier earned a Master's degree from Karlsruhe University in Industrial Engineering and gained several years of management experience in the industrial sector.