Thomas is an engineer by education, trained in operations and drilled in business acumen at McKinsey & Company. He built the very first ‘McKinsey Marginal Abatement Cost Curve’ in 2005 and spent the following 8 years building what would become a full-scale Practice (business area) around Sustainability and Resource Productivity. Thomas brings broad cross-sector insight in Energy and Climate related opportunities and extensive experience from on-site work with industrial facilities to improve productivity of energy, carbon and other resources, through 100+ site visits globally.
Background
Prior to joining RMI, Thomas spent the majority of his professional career at McKinsey & Company, where he launched and built up the Sustainability Practice together with a small core leadership team, through entrepreneurial leadership and by spearheading new methodologies and developing expertise. His expertise has been built together with clients, applied to specific industrial facilities. The primary focus of his work has been on energy intensive industry, metal processing and mining in particular.
Examples of relevant projects:
Metal processing clean sheet redesign – Europe
Integrated Energy Strategy program (sourcing, operations, system design) – Europe
Yield optimization of chemical plant – Middle East
Big Data-based optimization of mineral processing plant – Central Africa
Establishment of annual sustainability conference for 10 top global mining companies
Numerous on-site energy efficiency diagnostics of industrial manufacturing sites (e.g., steel, cement, chemicals and pharma, dairy)
Selected roles as senior advisor to large sustainability strategies:
Sustainability Strategy for Kazakhstan
Energy Strategy for Singapore
Education
MSc in Engineering Physics, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm (2003)
Russian Language and Culture, State University of St Petersburg (2001)
L3 qualifications in Resource Productive Operations at McKinsey & Company
Location
Boulder, CO
