Sebastian Karwautz

 +43 1 533 97 66 28

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Sebastian Karwautz is in the Performance Reward & Information Business of Mercer Human Resource Consulting in Austria. His consultancy work is currently focused in the fields of Total Reward Management including Job Evaluation and Job levelling.

Sebastian graduated from Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration with Master of Business Management. He had specialized in Human Resource Management and on International Marketing and Management.

He also holds degrees form Columbia University in New York and Pepperdine University in Los Angeles.

Maeve McCumiskey

 +32 02 674 89 64

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Maeve McCumiskey leads the Information Product Solution business (IPS) in Belgium and Luxembourg.
 
She first joined Mercer's benefits consulting practice in 1991. She returned in 2001 after spending four years as a compensation and benefits manager for Europe for a speciality chemical company.
 
In 1991 she became a Fellow of the Institute of Actuaries. She speaks English and French.

Martin Macha

 +420 2 2141 81 68 

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Martin is H&B business leader in EEMEA countries. He is also market leader for the Czech Republic and Slovakia.

Before joining Mercer in 2001, he worked for 6 years as director of the Research Institute for Labour and Social Affairs, managing the staff of fifty people. He has written several books and many articles on social and pension policy, work relations, human capital issues and impact of CR accession into the EU.

His clients include leading multinational and local companies which he partner with on resolving their different human capital issues.

Martin graduated with a master degree in sociology from Charles University in Prague and studied social and labour law at Catholic University in Leuven. He has got his doctoral degree in social and pension policy from Masaryk University in Brno.

Jean-Pierre Magot

 +33 1 55 21 37 18

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Jean-Pierre Magot is a Partner, co-Leader of the Human Capital Advisory Services business, based in France.  He is responsible for helping French and European based clients develop and implement human resources policies mainly in the matters of compensation, job evaluation and people management, employee savings schemes.

Prior to joining Mercer in 2003, Jean-Pierre was a National Partner at Arthur Andersen (Ernst & Young) and Leader of the Executive Compensation Practice.  He also a lecturer on compensation practices at ESSEC and CIFFOP (Paris La Sorbonne).

He holds a Master’s Degree in Economics/Management and a Master’s Degree in Human Resource Management (CIFFOP), and is a graduate of the Advanced Executive Programm of UCLA.

Bernd Thomaszik

+49 69 961 30 207

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Bernd Thomaszik is a European Principal in Mercer’s Frankfurt office. He leads the Performance, Measurement & Rewards Practice in Germany.

He has more than 14 years experience in Human Resource consulting and sound expertise in all aspects of reward consulting with a strong focus on value based compensation as well as Stock Option Plan design.

Before joining Mercer Bernd worked for a major German industrial conglomerate.

He holds a bachelor degree in business administration. He is a frequent speaker at HR conferences on reward and Mergers & Acquisition practices in Germany.

Tamas Kolbe

+361 888 21 08

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Tamas Kolbe joined Mercer in 2003 as freelancer management consultant in Hungary. He is specialised in Performance, Measurement & Rewards.

Tamas has 12 years of experience in the HR consultancy field. He has worked on a number of local and international projects across a wide range of HR related services.

Tamas has worked in the airlines, railway, telecom, manufacturing, FMCG, oil and banking sectors. He started his career as a management consultant at an international HR consulting company.       

He holds a B.Sc. in industrial economics  and Ph.D. in Management  from University of Economics, Budapest.

Paul O'Malley

 +353 21 4910 961 

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Paul is responsible for leading Mercer’s total rewards consulting services with clients in Europe. He is a member of the Mercer global steering group, who has responsibility for the development of intellectual capital on total rewards.

Paul has been with Mercer for 25 years and during that time has worked in benefit administration, retirement consulting, human resource consulting and client management. He has also held internal management responsibilities. Paul specialises in the design and implementation of total rewards programmes and in this respect has worked with many clients across Europe.

Paul is an Associate of the Pensions Management Institute in the UK and the Irish Institute of Pensions Managers. He is also a Graduate of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development.

Jan Hoogeveen 

 +31 20 431 3725

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Jan Hoogeveen is a Principal at Mercer.

In this position, Hoogeveen is responsible for Mercer's services in the area of IFRS, M&A and Total Rewards. He will be involved primarily in designing and implementing reward policy (Total Rewards) for companies.

Jan was previously employed as a benefits and international consultant with Watson Wyatt in the Netherlands and the United States. There he was responsible, for instance, for the development of services in the area of Compensation & Benefits Consulting for Dutch multinationals.

Per Myklestu

+47 21 01 10 66

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Per Myklestu is leader for Mercer Nordics and for Mercer’s Nordic-based global and strategic clients. He is also responsible for the newly established European Market Leaders Group.

Per joined Mercer in 2003, when Mercer acquired Benefit Network ASA, a firm he had co-founded. Before that, he headed the major accounts business unit at Storebrand Life.

Per graduated from the Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration in 1983. He has additional management training, including the Program for Executive Development at IMD in Lausanne, Switzerland.

Cameron Hannah

 +41 22 918 10 03 

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Cameron is the partner responsible for Human Capital business in Central Europe and Mercer’s operations in the emerging economies of Eastern Europe, Turkey and the Middle East.  He is responsible for development of initiatives to establish Mercer as the recognised leading provider of advice in these regions.

Cameron joined Mercer in 1988. Prior to moving to Geneva in 1993, Cameron worked for Mercer in Liverpool, UK.

Cameron received an honours degree in mathematics from Oxford University. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Actuaries in the United Kingdom and a member of the Swiss Actuarial Association.

Alfredo Soares

 +35 1 21 311 37 95

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Alfredo Soares is a Consultant in the Human Capital Line of Business at Mercer. He is specialized in the Broad Based Performance Rewards and Executive Remuneration segments. In addition to participating in Compensation Policies international projects and in restructuring / downsizing implementation projects, he has also worked in different business sectors like Insurance, Consumer Goods, Transports, Retail and Information Technology.

He started his professional activity in the finance department of markets and studies of Espírito Santo Bank, and after that he went to an insurance company – Tranquilidade Vida, where he worked as an actuarial, later he performed the financial analyst function in Millenium BCP Bank. He participated in implementation projects of value-at-risk, risk management and FAS33.

Alfredo holds a degree in Applied Mathematics to Actuarial Sciences by the Nova de Lisboa University. He also holds a Post-graduate degree in Finance Mathematics by the Fundamental Applications and Mathematics Centre of Lisbon University and a Master degree in Statistics and Optimization by the Nova de Lisboa University. He has participated in several training courses in England, Holland and Spain in the areas of Systems Evaluation and Expatriation Policies

Ben Sada

 +34 215 982 42 48

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Benjamin Sada is the leader of the compensation segments (Broad Based Performance & Rewards and Executive Remuneration) for Spain. He joined Mercer's Spanish Human Capital business in 2007.

Benjamin spent six years in Mercer's Philadelphia office where he was involved in the development of compensation and performance strategies for national and international clients in several industries including communications, financial services, technology, energy, pharmaceutical and healthcare.

Benjamin joined Mercer Mexico in 2000 and transferred to Mercer US in 2002.  Prior to joining Mercer he worked for the Retirement Savings System (SAR - Sistema de Ahorro para el Retiro) in CONSAR Mexico where he coordinated the development and implementation of the “Risk Analysis System”.

He has a Bachelors degree in Business Administration from ITAM (Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México). He is a member of WorldatWork.

Hakan Hizar

+90 212 355 4467

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Hakan joined Mercer in September 2005 and is currently working as consultant. Before his employment with Mercer, he worked as a Manager / Consultant for Ernst & Young Human Capital practice in Turkey.

Prior to consultancy, he had some line and consultancy positions in major national and multinational firms for 15 years. Besides regular assignments in his career, he had some additional responsibilities in systems development and project management areas. For several years, he was an assessor for Quality Award in Turkey based on EFQM principles.

Hakan has managed or has been involved in several projects in Human Capital consulting.

He has a BS degree from Bogazici University in Industrial Engineering.

David Conroy

 +44 20 7178 5577

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David Conroy is a Principal at Mercer. He has been a compensation consultant for over fifteen years and before joining Mercer was a partner in another global HR consultancy.

David specialises in the design and delivery of reward systems including the development of reward programmes that effectively align employee behaviours with business results, increase the linkage between pay and performance and help drive organisation culture change.  David also works with clients to ensure that all reward elements – pay, benefits and careers – are integrated and improve the overall employee value proposition and the return on reward investment a company makes.   

David is a Chartered Member of the Institute of Personnel & Development and has a degree in Social Sciences