Claus Fischer holds well over a decade of experience in leadership advisory and search, partnering with multinational and family-owned organizations to recruit transformational leaders across the consumer, retail, luxury and hospitality sectors. A member of Spencer Stuart’s Consumer Practice, he focuses on senior executive and board searches for leading companies across Europe and beyond, also advising both global corporations and family-owned enterprises on leadership succession and transformation.
Claus is known for his deep wisdom and impeccable intuition in helping clients architect teams of transformational leaders who are capable of meeting the specific challenges of the current state of the market.
Deep expertise in consumer, retail and luxury leadership
- Claus served as global leadership adviser retail, luxury and apparel for another well-known global consulting firm, where he led numerous CEO and board searches across Europe, including for beauty, luxury, food, consumer durables and lifestyle brands.
- He also brings more than 15 years of prior industry experience in international branded food manufacturing, private label and B2B ingredient supply.
- His consumer experience is complemented by early career consulting expertise from McKinsey & Company’s marketing and sales practice.
Claus studied business administration at the European Business School and participated in exchange programs, spending one semester at Universidad Argentina de la Empresa and another at ESC La Rochelle. He graduated as Diplom-Kaufmann and is fluent in German, English, French and Spanish.