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Florian Gröne is a Strategy& partner advising Telecoms, Media and Technology businesses, primarily across Europe and North America. With 20+ years of strategy and transformation consulting experience, he leads PwC's global consulting practice for the Telecommunications industry as Global Telecommunications Sector Leader. His work spans corporate strategy, digital and platform business models, ESG transformation, M&A value creation and organisational redesign, with a particular focus on growth strategy for data-driven businesses. He joined Strategy&'s predecessor firm, Booz Allen Hamilton, in 2002, having previously worked in venture capital and B2B e-commerce software. A prolific author and frequent contributor to industry conferences and publications, Florian's ideas and perspectives have been featured in top-tier business publications such as the Financial Times, USA Today, strategy+business, Bloomberg and Forbes, and he is a regular author of PwC's Global Telecom Outlook. He holds a PhD in corporate strategy from WHU Beisheim School of Management, an MBA from the Katz Graduate School of Business at the University of Pittsburgh, and master's degrees in business and economics from German universities.