Dr. Marco Henry V. Neumueller is Partner, Shareholder and Practice Leader Family Business & Mid-Caps at ODGERS, a global executive search and leadership advisory firm. He specializes in advising family-owned businesses, mid-sized enterprises, and foundation-owned organizations on executive appointments as well as supervisory and advisory board succession.
His industry focus includes manufacturing, automotive suppliers, technology-driven businesses - including medical technology and optoelectronics - as well as the consumer goods sector. In addition to large industrial corporations, he works closely with entrepreneurial families, family offices, and private equity investors.
Before joining ODGERS, Marco served as Associated Partner and Head of Business Development Manufacturing / R&D Transformation at a consulting subsidiary of Porsche. Earlier in his career, he held several positions within an international family-owned company specializing in industrial control and automation technology.
Marco studied Electrical Engineering and Information Technology at the University of Stuttgart, graduating with a Diplom-Ingenieur degree in 2008, while simultaneously pursuing legal studies at the FernUniversität in Hagen. He subsequently earned advanced degrees in General Management (MBE, 2011) and Business Law (LL.M., 2014), complemented by international study and research appointments in the United States, the United Kingdom, Sweden, Japan, and South Korea.
He received his doctorate in economics and business administration (Dr. rer. pol.) from the Witten Institute for Family Business at Witten/Herdecke University in 2019. His doctoral research was supported by scholarships from the Stiftung Familienunternehmen and the EQUA Foundation. His academic and professional work focuses on family-owned companies, governance, and leadership.Marco serves on the Executive Committee of the Stuttgart chapter of the Wirtschaftsrat Deutschland and was appointed to the Federal Economic Senate (Bundeswirtschaftssenat) in 2022. He is also the founder of "Familienunternehmen im Fokus" and "Aufsichtsrat im Mittelstand".
