Johannes leads McKinsey’s work in digital insurance in Europe, helping insurers build their digital strategies, expand and serve direct markets, and strengthen their customer-service experience.

He also oversees the firm’s global customer experience for financial-services activities, helping financial institutions around the world transform the ways they meet the needs of increasingly demanding customers.

Some of his recent client work includes building a digital strategy for a leading global insurer and helping launch direct insurance players in Germany and other European markets. He also assists clients across Europe in areas such as social-media strategy and digital enablement of the tied-agents channel. Other projects include working with a number of insurers to digitize their customer journey for processes such as claims, life-insurance onboarding, and auto-insurance sales.

Furthermore, Johannes helps private-equity firms on due diligences and portfolio work.

Johannes has coauthored several McKinsey articles about issues confronting the insurance industry, such as insurance fraud and digital transformation.