Peter May (management consultant)

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Peter May (born January 12, 1958 in Cologne) is a German lawyer and management consultant .

Life

May studied law in Cologne and Munich from 1978 to 1983. He passed the first state examination in law in 1983 in Cologne and the second in Stuttgart in 1988. In 1991 he received his doctorate in economics from the University of Hohenheim . From 2001 to 2007 he was professor of business administration for medium-sized companies at the University of Applied Sciences in Bergisch Gladbach and from 2008 to 2009 he held the Wild Group Chair of Family Business at the International Institute for Management Development in Lausanne. May has been an honorary professor at WHU (Otto Beisheim School of Management) in Vallendar since the beginning of 2009 .

After working as a legal tutor from 1983 to 1985, May worked for the law firm Hennerkes Binz in Stuttgart. From 1990 to 1996 he headed the parental family company, the May Group in Erftstadt, as chairman of the management board . In 1998 May founded the Intes Academy and Intes Consulting for Family Businesses, which specialize in qualification and consulting services for owners of family businesses. In May 2013 May sold the company to the auditing firm PricewaterhouseCoopers as part of the formation of a strategic alliance . Since then he has been the founder and owner of PETER MAY Family Business Consulting, which specializes in advising owner families and family businesses.

May has been married since 1983 and has four children.

job

As a lawyer, May and Brun-Hagen Hennerkes obtained the admissibility of the GmbH & Co. KGaA as a legal form for family businesses willing to go public.

In 2004 May helped to develop a governance code for family businesses , a collection of guidelines for the responsible management of family businesses. The Intes endowed chair for family businesses at WHU goes back to his initiative as well as the honor of the "Family Business Owner of the Year", which has originally been held annually since 2004 together with Impulse magazine . From 2011 to 2014 May was a curator at the IFF Institute for Family Business in Stuttgart.

Publications (selection)

  • Successful life. Aphorisms for life entrepreneurs, Murmann Verlag, 2019, ISBN 978-3-86774-638-0 .
  • with Peter Bartels and Dominik von Au: f.cube: How to secure the future of your family business, Haufe, 2019, ISBN 978-3-648-12566-3 .
  • with Adrianna Lewandowska: Strategy właścicielskie. Skuteczne rodziny biznesowe, Instytut Biznesu Rodzinnego, 2019
  • The owner strategy in the family business. A guide . Murmann Verlag, 2017, ISBN 978-3-86774-563-5 .
  • The Owner Strategy in a Family Business, Murmann Verlag, 2017, ISBN 978-3-86774-586-4 .
  • with Peter Bartels (Ed.): Governance in family businesses: The manual for the successful management of family businesses and entrepreneurial families. Bundesanzeiger Verlag, 2017, ISBN 978-3-8462-0707-9 .
  • with Peter Bartels (ed.): Succession in family businesses: The manual for business families and their companions, Bundesanzeiger Verlag, 2015, ISBN 978-3-8462-0546-4 .
  • with Thomas Ingelfinger: Le aziende familiari. Strategy per il successo, Hoepli, 2015, ISBN 978-8820366926
  • with Florian Langenscheidt (Ed.): Lexicon of German Family Businesses, Gabal, 2014, ISBN 978-3-86936-530-5 .
  • with Adrianna Lewandowska: Stawka wieksza niz biznes, Wolters Kluver, 2014.
  • with Peter Bartels (ed.): The advisory board in family businesses: With the three-dimensional model for a professional advisory board, Bundesanzeiger Verlag, 2014, ISBN 978-3-8462-0243-2 .
  • with Nikolaus Förster (ed.): Role models for Germany. The successful world of family business . Murmann Verlag, Hamburg 2013.
  • with F. Langenscheidt (ed.): Hand-made - The most beautiful manufactories in Germany. A selection in words and pictures. GABAL Verlag GmbH, Offenbach 2012, ISBN 978-3-86936-349-3 .
  • Family business model for success - the strategy book. Murmann Verlag, Hamburg 2012, ISBN 978-3-86774-219-1 .
  • with F. Langenscheidt (Ed.): German Standards - From the best family. German Standards EDITIONS GmbH, Cologne 2011, ISBN 978-3869362540 .
  • with V. Bucher, P.-A. Cardinaux, U. Fueglistaller (Ed.): Swiss Standards - From the best family. Deutsche Standards EDITIONEN GmbH, Cologne and NZZ Verlag, Zurich 2010.
  • with F. Langenscheidt (ed.): Lexicon of German family businesses. Deutsche Standards EDITIONEN GmbH, Cologne 2009, ISBN 978-3-8349-1640-2 .
  • with G. Rieder (ed.): Family business today - yearbook 2000–2009. INTES Academy for Family Businesses, Bonn 2000–2009.
  • (Ed.): The INTES Handbook Family Businesses, Family Business Edition. INTES Academy for Family Businesses, Bonn 2008.
  • The entrepreneur as boss, manager and private person. Campus Verlag, Frankfurt 2006, ISBN 978-3-593-38115-2 .
  • with OW Obermaier (Ed.): Good Governance in Family Business, Edition Family Business. INTES Academy for Family Businesses, Bonn 2006.
  • Learning from the champions - five building blocks for business success. 2nd edition, INTES Academy for Family Businesses, Bonn 2004.
  • with C. Sies (Ed.): Corporate succession made easy - tips, experience reports and checklists for entrepreneurs. Frankfurter Allgemeine Buch , Frankfurt 2000.
  • Securing the family's influence on the management of the publicly traded stock corporation. Publishing house Dr. Otto Schmidt, Cologne 1992.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ INTES and PwC form a strategic alliance. In: presseportal.de. May 21, 2013, accessed April 19, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Why consultants are allowed to fail as company bosses . Die Welt Online, December 16, 2014
  3. ^ Once again: The GmbH & Co. KG on shares as a legal form for family businesses willing to go public? R&W Online; Retrieved November 26, 2014
  4. ↑ Governance Code for Family Businesses. (PDF; 200 kB) (No longer available online.) INTES, archived from the original on October 19, 2013 ; accessed on September 18, 2012 (German).
  5. ^ IFF Institute for Family Business Stuttgart; Board of Trustees . Retrieved December 29, 2014.

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personal data
SURNAME May, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German management consultant
DATE OF BIRTH January 12, 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne