Thilo Henkes, LEK, and Ciaran Little, Smithers
Thilo Henkes | Managing Director, L.E.K. Consulting
Thilo Henkes, Managing Director, L.E.K. Consulting Thilo Henkes joined L.E.K. in 2000 and has more than 17 years of consulting experience specializing in transaction support and developing post-acquisition, value-enhancing strategies for clients. He is a Managing Director and Partner, and leads our Paper Goods and Packaging practice. Thilo is also active in our Building Materials & Industrials Products and Private Equity practices. He has worked with his clients to evaluate merger and acquisition opportunities, assess growth options in new markets and new products, construct business plans in conjunction with developing new growth strategies, and identify value in cost-cutting initiatives.
A long-time sellside analyst covering the packaging & forest products sectors, Mark Wilde was most recently Bank of Montreal’s senior analyst on the North American Packaging & Forest Products sector from 2014 to early 2023. For three decades, he has repeatedly been recognized as one of the sector's best stock pickers and a frequently-quoted sector expert. He has been cited in The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Barrons and other publications and appeared repeatedly on CNBC. He is a consistent member of the Institutional Investor All-America Research Team. Pulp & Paper/RISI repeatedly named him to their annual list of the sector’s globally influential people - the only sellside analyst on the list.
Prior to joining Bank of Montreal, Dr. Wilde spent more than 25yrs at Deutsche Bank/Bankers Trust (a predecessor firm). At Bankers Trust, he was named a member of the Partnership group of senior Managing Directors. Earlier in his career, Mark was employed as a Senior Economist by Wharton Econometrics (WEFA Group) in Philadelphia. He is currently a Director of the Sylvamo Corporation and serves on Madison Dearborn Partners’ Basic Industries Roundtable.
He graduated summa cum laude with departmental honors from Alma College where he studied history and accounting. He holds a PhD from the University of Delaware. Mark & his family live in Princeton, NJ.