Olaf Babinet, Director in Germany joined Deloitte 20 years ago, with the role to manage global location strategy engagements across EMEA, Americas and Asia. Olaf has 25 years of experience advising companies on site selection, footprint optimization and/or restructuring operations all across the world, mostly for manufacturing, shared service centers, R&D and headquarter projects.
Olaf has also developed grants negotiations advice for large and medium-sized companies interested in setting up operations in the enlarged EMEA, Americas and Asia. During the course of his many projects, Olaf has developed professional relationships with representative of numerous governments.
About Global Location Strategy:
Deloitte’s German location strategy practice consists of 12 international experts with sound experience and broad networks in 70+ countries. We help clients to best align business strategies with business geographies. We advise them about their location strategy when it comes to decide where/why/how they can set up new manufacturing plants, shared service centers, data centers, R&D centers, headquarters, and excellence centers as well as how to optimize their existing footprint.