Overview
Jan Hendrik Kraus is a partner in Heidrick & Struggles’ Dubai office and a member of Heidrick Consulting. He has more than 25 years of financial services and consulting experience, with a strong focus on strategy development and implementation, and helping clients improve organizational effectiveness.
Experience
Jan Hendrik works with boards, CEOs, and global functional and regional teams across multiple industries on organizational alignment, leadership engagement, team effectiveness, and change management.
He has experience leading major HR transformation, culture, and post-merger integration projects in the Middle East, including the HR integration of two recent KSA banking mergers. Recent projects also include board reviews for a major industrial player in KSA and a UAE-based bank.
Jan Hendrik serves as faculty in board training for the GCC Board Directors Institute.
Before joining Heidrick, Jan Hendrik was a senior partner with another international executive search firm, responsible for financial services advisory in EMEA.
Earlier, Jan Hendrik was a general manager of group strategy and a member of the group executive team at Emirates NBD. He managed the bank's strategic project portfolio, including implementing segment strategies, creating organizational efficiencies, enhancing the customer experience, and identifying new business opportunities. He also coordinated the integration activities in three M&A situations.
Before that, Jan Hendrik spent seven years with McKinsey & Company in strategy consulting, focusing on financial services, particularly retail banking, wealth management, and insurance. He began his career with Deutsche Bank in Germany.
Education
University Bayreuth, Germany, PHD in Finance
University of Muenster, Germany, Graduate Degree in Business Administration