Biography and expertise

Matthias Hamel focuses on strategy advice of European and global telecommunication companies and their shareholders. He also  supports data centers, cloud / SaaS providers, and enterprise software / ERP players.

In these sectors, he advises the worldwide leading infrastructure and buy-out investors as well as shareholders and board members. His functional focus is on the development of product portfolios, infrastructure strategy, digitalization, innovation, and business plans as well as investment advice and due diligence support.

In total, Matthias has worked on 130+ strategy projects for more than 60 companies on all continents and supported major investors on 210+ transactions. His work often focuses on linking commercial decisions to underlying technical capabilities.

Matthias has been with Altman Solon for over 18 years and was one of the founding members of the CEE office in 2006. He has headed the company’s Technology and Innovation Practice since 2009 and has been a board member of CTAM Europe since 2011. He became Managing Director in 2013 and Partner in 2017.

Matthias studied Computer Sciences and Business at TU Darmstadt, Germany, and the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada.