Patrick is the CEO and owner of STILLER ADVISORS. He has more than 15 years' experience in M&A. He advised on more than 50 transactions totalling more than 1.4 bn. Euro of M&A. More than 50% of these transactions have been cross-border. 

Before Patrick founded the investment banking boutique, he had worked more than ten years for Voith, a technology company and one of the largest family-owned enterprises in Europe. During this time, he served as M&A advisor and CFO for various mechanical engineering and industrial services companies of the group. He held board positions in companies in Germany, Switzerland, Sweden and India.

Before he started his career at Voith, Patrick worked for more than four years as research associate at the University of Passau (Germany). He did extensive research in the fields of divestitures and shareholder value creation strategies as well as in organizational design. With his colleagues, Patrick advised German stock listed companies and mid-sizes companies on these subjects. He lectured at the University of Passau, at the Management Academy in Moscow (Russia), at the Corvinus University in Budapest (Hungary) and at the Academy of Administrative and Business Studies (Germany).

Patrick graduated from the M&A Programm of The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. Before that, he graduated in Business Administration and holds a doctorate degree (summa cum laude) in this field from the University of Passau. His doctoral thesis focused on divestitures. Further, he holds diplomas in Business English and Business Chinese (Mandarin). Whilst being a student, he spent one year in China (Bejing and Shanghai).

He was born in 1973 and lives with his family in the Stuttgart area.

Claudia is Partner at STILLER ADVISORS. She has more than 10 years' experience in M&A. She advised on more than 20 transactions. Many of these transactions have been cross-border. 

Before she joined STILLER ADVISORS, Claudia spent more than ten years as strategy consultant at Voith, a large German technology group. During this time, she advised the members of the Board of Management of Voith as well as other senior executives of the group on corporate and business strategy.

Claudia graduated in Business Administration from the University of Hamburg and from the „Executive Program in Corporate Strategy“ at the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business. She was born in 1978 and lives with her family in Hamburg (Germany).