Burkhard Wittek studied business administration at the University of Cologne and holds an MBA from Harvard Business School. After graduating, he worked for 13 years at the Boston Consulting Group, most recently as global head of the consumer goods/marketing and healthcare practice group in Germany. With the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1990, he became self-employed and, together with several families, acquired various companies from the Treuhandanstalt. He has headed FORUM Family Office since 1998.
He is married and has 3 grown-up sons. His hobbies are reading, travelling, music and sports, preferably sailing.