Roland Berger is Founder of Roland Berger, Munich, and has been the company's Honorary Chairman since 2010. He studied business administration in Hamburg and Munich.

Today, Roland Berger has grown to become one of the world's top five strategy consulting firms with 50 offices in 36 countries. The company has a workforce of 2,400 and advises leading international industrial and service enterprises, as well as public institutions. From the company's foundation in 1967 until 2003, Roland Berger was CEO of the firm, and until 2010 Chairman of the Supervisory Board. Prior to founding his strategy consultancy, Roland Berger was employed as a consultant and ultimately partner at a leading American consulting firm based in Milan and Boston.

Roland Berger has been appointed to various expert commissions by several German state governments and the federal government. From 2007 to its dissolution in 2014, he was a member of the High Level Group on Administrative Burdens under the leadership of former Bavarian State Premier Dr. Edmund Stoiber, appointed by the European Commission. Furthermore, Roland Berger was appointed a member of the Oxford Martin Commission for Future Generations in 2012. Since 2002, he has been on the Business Advisory Council of the State Premier of Saxony-Anhalt and was appointed to the Globalization Council Portugal by the Portuguese President Aníbal Cavaco Silva. Previously, German President Roman Herzog had appointed him to the President's Advisory Council for Innovation. Roland Berger has also actively participated in over 20 federal government commissions under Helmut Kohl and Gerhard Schröder.

Roland Berger is a member of several supervisory boards and advisory councils of national and international companies, foundations and organizations and invests in many private and listed companies as well as startups.

He was Honorary Consul General of the Republic of Finland in Bavaria and Thuringia from 1996 to 2015.

Roland Berger is Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Roland Berger Foundation, which he set up personally with an endowment of EUR 50 million. The Roland Berger Foundation is dedicated to the global protection of human dignity and human rights. Each year it confers the Roland Berger Award for Human Dignity. The Foundation also helps gifted children and young people from underprivileged families across Germany and Italy to gain access to the best possible primary and secondary education.

Outside work, Roland Berger pursues his interest in modern art and owns a large collection of artworks, mainly by contemporary artists from Europe, the US, South America and China. He also loves classical music and supports the Mahler Chamber Orchestra and Bavarian State Opera, among others. He loves hiking and cross-country skiing, especially in the Swiss region of Engadin.

Roland Knecht is the CEO, executive director and owner of Atlas Asset Management. Over the course of a 30-year career at leading Swiss Private Banks including Banque Heritage, Clariden Bank, Citibank, UBS, he has held a variety of senior positions in Asia, The Middle East, Eastern Europe and Africa as well as responsible for the bank’s offices in Singapore, Hong Kong, London, Monaco, Dubai, Istanbul, Moscow, Beirut and Cairo and in London. Prior to his current role, he acted as Executive Board Member, Group Managing Director and Global Head Private Banking at Banque Heritage SA, a Geneva-based bank with offices in Geneva, Zurich, Lugano and Montevideo. He remains to be a shareholder in the Banque Heritage SA. Prior to Banque Heritage, he held various senior positions at Clariden Bank (later renamed Clariden Leu). He was a member of the Executive Board of Management. Since 2001, he is an independent Director of UOB Kay Hian Singapore, a leading publicly listed stock broking firm. He is the Chairman of the Nominating Committee as well as the Chairman of the Remuneration Committee. From 1966 to 1969, Knecht attended the Swiss Mercantile School in Wil. During the same time, he made an apprenticeship at UBS Wil.