Maarten Kelder is President of Monitor Group Asia. He joined Monitor in 1990, and since has participated in hundreds of projects in Europe, North America, and Asia. He has experience across a wide range of industries, including telecommunications, media, technology, consumer goods, life sciences, energy, and financial services. His key areas of expertise include portfolio and business unit strategies, marketing and growth strategies, shareholder value, organizational effectiveness, capability building, M&A / Alliance strategies, and economic development strategies for regions and countries. In addition to his role of overseeing Monitor's activities in Asia, Mr. Kelder still spends at least half of his time working on client engagements.

He has worked in Asia since 1995, across virtually all Asian countries with particular emphasis on China, Korea, and South East Asia.

Prior to Joining Monitor, Maarten was a petroleum engineer at Royal Dutch / Shell in Africa and Europe, and with Morgan Stanley in New York and London in investment banking.

Maarten earned his Bachelor and Master of Science Degrees from the University of Technology in Delft, the Netherlands. He also obtained an MBA at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College, where he was awarded the Rotary International Scholarship Award.

He currently lives with his family in Singapore, having lived in China, Korea, Los Angeles, London, New York and Amsterdam before.