Nils Barnickel

Nils Barnickel specializes in digital strategy and digital transformations, IoT business building and B2B ICT proposition revamping. Mr. Barnickel has close to 15 years of management consulting and innovation project experience, spanning across multiple regions and markets including Western Europe, Middle East, South Africa and South East Asia. He mainly serves clients in the telecom and technology industries and in the public sector, regarding smart cities.

To highlight some key experiences, Mr. Barnickel has designed digital transformation strategies and roadmaps for Middle Eastern telecoms and redefined their business IT operating model towards agile practices; revamped the e-commerce proposition for a multi-national telecom group including re-invention of customer sales journeys with agile design sprint hackathons; developed the commercial IoT strategy for a North American telecom player to revamp company-wide B2B and B2C IoT proposition; and developed a living lab of cutting-edge solutions for a flagship smart city development in the Middle East.

Mr. Barnickel was part of the leadership team at Delta Partners, the Telecom, Media & Technology (“TMT”) strategy consulting and investment banking boutique now integrated into FTI Consulting's TMT practice.

Prior to joining Delta Partners, Mr. Barnickel worked with McKinsey & Company in the Berlin and Dubai offices, focusing on the Telecom and Advanced Industries sector on business technology and digital topics, across Europe, Middle East, Africa and South-East Asia. Prior to that he worked as a project manager at Fraunhofer, Europe’s leading cluster of innovation institutes, and at United Nations in New York and Dakar on digitization projects.

Mr. Barnickel speaks fluent English and German and is conversational in French.