Marc D. Grüter is a Partner at L.E.K. Consulting. Based in Zurich, he oversees our business in Switzerland and Liechtenstein. In addition to this local market role, he leads our global Centre of Excellence for Digital and Risk in Financial Services being part of the leadership of our global Financial Services practice. Marc’s primary focus areas are in Financial Services (Retail and Corporate Banking, Wealth Management, Insurance, Central Banks, Regulators and FinTech), where he advises clients on strategies to deliver shareholder value and change in a landscape prone to changing market trends, technology disruptions and emerging risks. He advises a range of disruptors and incumbent businesses on Growth and Customer Experience, Efficiency improvement and Risk effectiveness.
Marc’s work has a significant emphasis on innovative Business and Digital Strategies, large scale Transformations, Restructuring, M&A and Risk, Regulatory and Compliance. Marc has sound expertise from working for leading Financial Institutions in various jurisdictions including Switzerland, Europe, US/Canada and the Middle East. Some of his most relevant experiences include Strategy reviews and the delivery on a long-term ambition for several Banks in Continental Europe (Retail and Private Banks), develop the Digital Strategy and execute a comprehensive Digital Transformation of a G-SIB Bank, deliver a Cost Restructuring program for a leading Swiss Wealth Manager, support several G-SIB banks with a strategic transformation of their CFO and CRO functions and support Regulators with major Financial markets stability and Stress testing exercises.
Marc joined L.E.K. in 2024 after over 20 years of practical experience working for UBS and leading strategy consulting and Big4 firms. Prior to his Consulting career, he worked as University lecturer and PhD student at the Chair for Bank management of the Centre of Economics of University of Basel. He holds a PhD (Dr. rer. pol) in Bank management (summa cum laude) and a M.A. in Corporate Finance, Financial Markets and Bank management from the Centre of Economics of University of Basel.
Education
Undergraduate: Bachelor of Economics, Centre for Economics, University of Basel
Graduate: Master of Arts in Economics and PhD (summa cum laude), Centre for Economics, University of Basel
