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We drive client success through improving the ’Engine Room’ of decision-making - how leaders engage with decisions involving strategic priorities, strategy-to-execution plans, financials and resources.

Kurt Yungel

Senior Manager, Consulting, Ernst & Young LLP

Strategy-to-execution and performance advisor for new product development, commercialization and digital organizations. Amateur race car driver.

Areas of focus
Transformation Realized
Life sciences
Office Boston, MA, United States

Kurt is a senior manager in the US Consulting practice at Ernst & Young LLP, working with life sciences companies to:

  • Understand, manage and accelerate the development of new drug assets by improving the “Engine Room” of drug program, pipeline, resource and financial management in R&D.
  • Improve the success of commercial drug launch by putting in place agile launch excellence and a “digital control tower.”
  • Elevate the role and effectiveness of digital organizations in life sciences by transforming digital operating models to value-based, product-oriented, agile models.

Prior to joining the EY organization, Kurt was a vice president in a growing consulting firm that was acquired by EY US, focusing on program management methods for new drug R&D and IT portfolio management and application portfolio management methods.

He holds a BS in Computer Science from St. John’s University in Queens, NY.

How Kurt is building a better working world

My professional drive is to help clients build sustainable, impactful processes that sit at the intersection of behaviors, data and digital. My teams and I work from the first conversation to understand the context for all three, in order to unlock the right methods for the right problems.

I believe that when we unlock that combination, that our approaches make a measurable impact on performance, help stakeholders do their jobs better and elevate client leaders’ ability to run their business with data-supported decisions.

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