Thorsten Scholz

Thorsten Scholz heads RefineValues’ cross-industry team for Corporate Affairs & Communications. Thorsten is passionate about advising management and advisory board members on firmly embedding Political Affairs within the business strategy and thinking. Thorsten focuses on building advisory boards and corresponding searches, as well as for supervisory boards, executive boards and C-levels. In addition, as a member of the Financial Services and Private Equity team, Thorsten advises companies in the financial industry with a focus on corporate and investment banking as well as private equity companies and PE portfolio companies on searches.

Prior to his role at RefineValue, Thorsten was responsible for government and regulatory relations at BASF and Shell. Before this, Thorsten helped shape the cultural change of the investment bank at Barclays and was responsible for the further development of the remuneration structures of the board, C-level and the investment bank. Thorsten Scholz started his career at McKinsey & Company and earned a master’s degree in business administration from the LMU (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich).