Erich Bergen, manufacturing advisory services director, has been with Baker Tilly since 2017. Erich is a director with 20 years of management and technology consulting experience across a wide range of industries, including a specialization in the mobility and transportation sector. As a business and technology leader, he works side by side with executives to solve enterprise transformation related programs. Erich specializes in corporate strategy, customer experience, customer and field service related functions, shared services, portfolio and program level management.
Over the last 10 years, Erich has focused almost exclusively on serving closely held companies. He is a Certified Galliard Family Business Advisor and leader in our family business strategy group where he helps family-owned organizations maximize value to transact or transition to the next generation. Erich worked as a consulting director for a Big Four firm and led several significant projects for the automotive industry prior to joining Baker Tilly.
- Creates and protects value for family-owned and closely held businesses through strategic growth and succession planning services
- Works closely with c-suite executives to define corporate strategies that support short-and long-term goals
- Develops and executes tactical support plans to achieve enterprise growth and process optimization objectives
- Instrumental in designing and delivering programs focused on end-to-end enterprise transformation: current and future state definition, operating model design and development support
- Leads large-scale business and technology transformational programs, including business case/ROI quantification, people and process organizational design, program and change management
- Works cross-culturally on international engagements to help clients navigate sociocultural barriers
- Center for the Return of Manufacturing Growth Strategies Leader
- Certified Project Management Professional (PMP)
- General Motors Top Performing Supplier CIO Award
- Certified Galliard Family Business Advisor
- Six Sigma Green Belt
Location
Michigan
Education
Master of Business Administration
Wayne State University (Detroit, Michigan)
Bachelor of Science in Management Information Systems
Oakland University (Auburn Hills, Michigan)
Advanced Leadership Program Certification
Yale School of Management (New Haven, Connecticut)
Expertise
- Manufacturing & Distribution
- Family Business
- Family Business Strategic Assessment
- Customer Experience
- Resource Optimization
- Service Effectiveness
- Sales, Marketing & Service
- Service Technology
- Strategy & Management Consulting
- Center for the Return of Manufacturing
- Manufacturing and distribution coronavirus resources
- Mobility and transportation company coronavirus resources
- Supply Chain & Manufacturing Consulting
- Supply Chain Strategy, Planning & Optimization
- Mobility & Transportation
