Biography

Jan Timmermann is a Senior Partner at Kearney. In his role as the European Private Equity Portfolio Operations Lead, he has spent the past 5 years at Kearney building up the Private Equity & Principal Investor practice across Europe.

He has over 25 years of experience in industry and professional services and has led more than 70 private equity assignments across a broad range of sectors, including consumer products, technology, healthcare, life sciences, energy, and business services. He specializes in working with PE funds to deliver value creation-focused operations DDs, and in the post-deal, delivers high-impact transformations that beat pre-deal targets. Jan has led some of the most complex global carve-outs across various industries and geographies, many operations DDs and portfolio company performance improvement programs for leading private equity firms, resulting in billions of dollars of value creation.

Before joining Kearney, Jan worked at Alvarez & Marsal in London, in the Private Equity Performance Improvement practice, developing and implementing value-creation plans, carve-out and post-merger integrations, as well as leading transformation offices. Earlier in his career, he was at Deloitte in corporate finance, and at PA Consulting Group, after starting his career as a chartered management accountant (CIMA) at Procter & Gamble. A British/German national, he is fluent in both languages.