Mathias Kirchmer

As innovative out-come-driven top executive and entrepreneur, Dr. Kirchmer has successfully led organizations and teams to achieve growth and performance goals in an international environment. He consistently overachieved results in his different roles, including CEO, Managing Director and Chief Marketing & Innovation Officer in the consulting and software sector as well as senior adviser, mainly in manufacturing industries. Dr. Kirchmer is a visionary leader, thought leader and innovator in the field of Business Process Management (BPM), integrating business and technology initiatives. He has combined his broad business experience with his extensive academic research to deliver pioneering management approaches that have proven to be both, sustainable and provide immediate benefits. Dr. Kirchmer has documented his findings in six books.

Most recently, Dr. Kirchmer founded BPM-D, a company focused on enabling ongoing digital transformation and strategy execution through the discipline of BPM. BPM-D has shown significant market impact in a short time, leveraging its innovative solutions. Under Dr. Kirchmer’s leadership BPM-D got recognized by CIO Review as one of 20 emerging enterprise architecture solution providers and by InsightsSuccess as one of the 50 most valuable tech start-ups in the US.

Before Dr. Kirchmer has been Accenture’s Managing Director & Global Lead for BPM. He developed and sold inventive BPM services across industries and geographies combining people enablement and technology implementation for best client value creation. This resulted in significant revenue growth. Dr. Kirchmer’s major process initiatives transformed business for his clients and created significant assets internally at Accenture. He became the face of Accenture’s BPM Practice, authoring two books as well as numerous thought leadership pieces.

Prior to joining Accenture, Dr. Kirchmer was the CEO of the Americas & Japan and The Chief Innovation & Marketing Officer for IDS Scheer, a leading provider of software and consulting solutions for BPM, best known for its ARIS software. In these roles, Dr. Kirchmer was successful in growing the company, attracting top talent while continuously increasing performance. He established key partnerships, managed two acquisitions, integrated IDS Scheer operating units in North and South America and set up a mid-market business while still consulting personally with clients.

Dr. Kirchmer’s career is exemplified by his intellectual and practical approach to BPM and Digitalization as well as his commitment to people and team work. His deep knowledge of technology (ERP/SAP, enterprise architecture, intelligent process execution/integration, etc.) and business approaches has proven successful with small and large companies in industries like High Tech, Telecommunication, Machinery, Health & Pharma, Finance and Consumer Goods. He has been working around the world, including Germany, France, USA, Brazil, Chile, Japan, and India. Dr. Kirchmer speaks German, English, French and basic Spanish.

Dr. Kirchmer remains involved in academia as an affiliated faculty member at the University of Pennsylvania since 1998, the Widener University, Philadelphia University and the Universidad of Chile. In 2004, he received a research and teaching fellowship from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science. Dr. Kirchmer is a published authority of BPM authoring 10 books and over 150 articles for a variety of publications making him a much sought after speaker and expert.

Dr. Kirchmer holds a PhD in Information Systems from Saarbrucken University, a Master in Business Informatics from Karlsruhe Technical University, as well as a Master in Economics from Paris-IX-Dauphine University. He resides in West Chester, Pennsylvania and has a US and a German citizenship.