Max Geldens
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| Born | 1932 |
| Died | 1989 (Age 57) |
| Nationality | Dutch |
| Alma mater | Dartmouth College, Harvard Business School |
Dutch director of McKinsey & Company who wrote and gave a working paper for the 1984 Bilderberg | |
Max Geldens was CEO of the Dutch branch of the consultancy McKinsey & Company in Amsterdam, and a champion of free enterprise. He wrote a working paper for the session on Future Employment Trends in the Industrialized Democracies at the 1984 Bilderberg.[1]
Education
Geldens studied economics at Dartmouth College in Hanover (USA) and received a Masters degree in Business Administration from Harvard Business School.[2]
Career
Geldens joined McKinsey in 1961 and quickly advanced to the top of the American corporation, where he became a board member in 1968. Under his leadership, the Benelux office in Amsterdam grew from a consulting firm with no more than a handful of consultants in the early seventies, to the most prestigious office in the Netherlands with more than sixty consultants at his farewell in 1986.[2][3]
Under his leadership, McKinsey oversaw the often unpopular downsizing and reorganizations in poorly performing companies in the 1970s.[2]
Event Participated in
| Event | Start | End | Location(s) | Description |
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| Bilderberg/1984 | 11 May 1984 | 13 May 1984 | Sweden Saltsjöbaden | The 32nd Bilderberg, held in Sweden |
