As a consultant with the Boston Consulting Group, Didier Kessler worked in the United States and in Europe prior to joining the French company Creusot-Loire in 1976, as Director, Strategic Development, and further, head of specializing units involved in the French Nuclear program.

In 1980, he joined a French press and book publishing company as a Department Director, prior to associating with Carré, Orban & Partners, a consulting firm specializing in executive search and high level management projects as a partner in the Paris and later, as a partner in charge of the Swiss operations in Geneva and Zürich, Switzerland. In 1993, Didier Kessler established his own practice in consulting in Geneva, both in executive search and private banking operations, developing private equity investments. He currently is active in assisting innovation-geared investments.

Didier Kessler has gained experience in conducting, supervising or concluding high level business and management negotiations, from the origination side to the settlement stage, including contracts, both in Europe and in the United States, in all types of industries, manufacturing, service, financial or consulting.

Didier Kessler, 59, dual national French and Swiss, currently lives in Geneva. Educated in Paris, France and in the United States, he graduated from the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris, passed the Agregation d'Histoire with the French University, received an MBA from Stanford University in 1975. Then, he was a Harkness Fellow of the Commonwealth Fund of New York.