Christian Schuh is the leader of A.T. Kearney's European Procurement Practice and founder of the firm's high tech office in Taipei. He is based in Vienna, Austria. Since joining the firm in 1995, he has led an array of projects for clients in the automotive, construction equipment, defense, high tech, packaging, and steel industries in Austria, China, France, Germany, Russia, Taiwan, the United Kingdom, Ukraine, and the United States. His areas of expertise include strategic sourcing, product development, and organization and he has written several books, monographs, and articles. Before joining A.T. Kearney, he worked for Unilever for several years. Christian studied aeronautical engineering and earned a doctorate degree in business administration from the Graz University of Technology in Austria. He lives in the historic city center of Vienna. Joseph L. Raudabaugh is the founder and global leader of A.T. Kearney's Procurement & Analytic Solutions Practice and is based in Chicago. Since joining the firm in 1984, he has led projects for clients in the brewing, construction equipment, consumer products, direct marketing, food ingredients, healthcare, industrial products, pharmaceutical, and specialty retail industries in North America, China, Europe, India, Japan, and South America. His areas of expertise include supply management, strategy, and organizational development, and he is the author of various monographs and articles. Joe is the co-founder of A.T. Kearney's Student Lab, a program that connects more than 45 clients with students and faculty from Carnegie Mellon University, the University of Chicago's Booth School of Business, the University of Michigan's Ross School of Business, MIT, and UCLA's Anderson School of Business to address operations and strategic business projects in an experiential learning model. Before joining A.T. Kearney, Joe worked for Air Products and Chemicals for several years. He studied economics and operations research at North Carolina State University and earned a master's degree in business administration from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. Robert Kromoser has been with A.T. Kearney since 1998. He is based in Vienna, Austria, but gained most of his consulting experience during international projects in Germany, Switzerland, Belgium, Denmark, Netherlands, France, Italy, Great Britain, Taiwan, and the United States. He is a member of the leadership team of A.T. Kearney's Procurement & Analytic Solutions