Stephen Rietiker is a Senior Management Consultant who successfully consulted national and international clients mostly in the financial sector for PricewaterhouseCoopers and IBM Business Consulting Services, both global Management Consulting firms. Apart from his focus on effective and sustainable strategy implementation, the main topics were IT management and the management of complex transformations. On top of that, Stephen is the author of the highly respected book "the ninth key" in which he describes ways how organizations achieve a project conscious management. Stephen is member of the executive board of the Swiss Project Management Assocation (spm). He lives close to Winterthur, Switzerland.

A selection of the projects he was responsible for:

• Lead for PMO set-up, recruiting and coaching of internal PMO lead and handover of PMO in a IT solution strategy implementation program for a global logistics provider
• Managing a cooperation program of two major state banks
• Managing the reorganization of the IT for a Swiss credit card company
• Program management for the technical de-merger (carve-out) of a global semiconductor manufacturer in Germany
• Implementation of project management and project portfolio management, harmonization of the corporate planning process and strategy development for realigning the IT in a midsize Swiss state bank