Dr Adam Klein
Chief Strategy Officer

For the past 35 years Dr Klein has developed, taught and led strategic change in rapidly transforming industry sectors. Driving innovation through leadership roles to address operational and monetization challenges, Dr Klein identified and executed key opportunities for both well-established content-rich companies such as Hasbro, MTV Networks and EMI Publishing/Music, as well as for newer technology companies including Ask Jeeves and VideoEgg. 

 With his work primarily spanning the USA, UK, Western Europe and parts of Africa, Dr Klein has leveraged deep expertise and focuses on the monetization and funding challenges across the property, infrastructure, commodities and natural resource sectors. A starting point for Dr Klein is always to understand customers’ interests and needs, while identifying how traditional methodologies and solutions are under constant challenge. Not surprisingly, the approach employed by Dr Klein enables innovation via providing high value-focused solutions when partnering with clients in achieving their goals.

 Emigrating to Boston in the United States in 1976, Dr Klein attended Harvard Business School from where he graduated with his MBA (1979). He subsequently joined The Boston Consulting Group where he applied analytical rigor and academic discipline to develop key insights and pragmatic actions to drive strategic redirection of business planning and organizational capabilities. Dr Klein returned to Harvard Business School where he taught Political Macroeconomics (BGIE) while he obtained a Doctorate of Business Administration (DBA/PhD) in 1987 which was focused on leadership of strategic change.

 In 2001 Dr Klein moved to New York to join Booz Allen Hamilton as a Lead Partner in the Media and Technology Group.  With his experience in media/technology sector, he joined Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism an adjunct professor where developed and taught for 10 years, among the most highly student rated courses “The Strategic Impact of Media Technology on the Business of Journalism”.

 In each company and situation Adam has engaged with, he has addressed the continually changing demands within their global industry sector.