Stephan Finkel

Partner

3DSE Management Consultants GmbH

Stephan Finkel is a Partner and Industry Lead Defense & Security at 3DSE with over 20 years of experience in consulting R&D-intensive companies. With a creative mindset, strong analytical understanding, and a high degree of intuition, he combines flexibility, empathy, and team orientation in his work. His industry expertise includes aerospace, defense and security, automotive, and transportation. His professional focus lies in the design, introduction, and implementation of model-based systems engineering programs, as well as in process and organizational improvements. In addition, he brings extensive experience in change management and qualification programs.

His other areas of expertise include maturity-oriented product development, design-to-cost, requirements engineering and management, translating market requirements into product portfolios, project and risk management, synchronized planning, digital product development processes, and design reviews.

He is recognized as a Project@risk expert and trainer for “Advanced Systems Engineering” qualifications, as well as the author of numerous national and international publications.

Stephan Finkel studied Aerospace Engineering at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) and served as a research assistant at the Chair of Astronautics at TUM.