Meet our Team

Christophe Mostert

Managing Partner

Frankfurt, Germany

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Christophe is a founding and Managing Partner in our Frankfurt office. His experience with M2P Consulting includes extensive work with travel, transport and logistics companies across Europe, the Middle East, and Asia throughout all areas of their business.

Christophe is particularly experienced with the development and realization of digital transformation strategies. His major themes include digitization, big data, automation, analytics, optimization, virtualization, mobility and emerging technologies such as machine learning. The strategic impact of these upgrades has included strengthened safety, security, and efficiency.

Christophe holds a Master of Science degree in Computer Science and Economics from the University of Darmstadt, Germany.

David Ploog

Managing Partner

New York, NY, USA

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David is a founding and Managing Partner in our New York office. His experience with M2P Consulting includes extensive work with transport companies and governments across Europe, the Middle East, and India throughout all areas of their business.

David is particularly experienced with advising companies on strategic and operational questions and challenges related to technology and innovation, with a key focus on the development of new business areas. 

David has more than 20 years of professional experience in international projects with a dedicated focus on law, finance, and consulting of various companies in the fields of travel, transport and logistics.

Lana Jansen

Partner

Frankfurt, Germany

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Lana is a Partner in our Frankfurt office and leading the Operations Management Practice of M2P. She has deep knowledge and experience in airline and airport operations with a distinct expertise in operations management and process re-engineering. Her projects comprise crew management, ground operations and airport commissioning for a number of significant airlines and airports in Europe, North-America and the Middle East.

Two of her projects were honored with the Best-of-Consulting-Mittelstand Award by WirtschaftsWoche in 2017 and 2018. She is a regular speaker at aviation industry conferences, including AGIFORS Crew Management and AGIFORS Airline Operations.

Lana completed her Bachelors Degree in Aviation Management at IUBH, Bad Honnef, Germany, and holds a Master of International Business from USC, Queensland, Australia. Lana gained cultural competences by spending part of her life overseas, including the United States and South-East Asia.

Dr. Markus Franke

Partner

Frankfurt, Germany

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Dr. Markus Franke is a Partner with M2P based in our Frankfurt office. Besides aviation, he has a decent track record in transport, logistics, and rail traffic. He has led numerous international projects with a focus on Europe, the Middle East, and North / Central America.

In his projects for airlines, airports, authorities, and investors, Markus designed and implemented new business models, realigned airline networks, improved the performance of hub airports, identified new air cargo business opportunities, redesigned commercial airline processes, or supported the capacity expansion planning of an airport. For railways, he redesigned the organizational structure of business units, identified success factors for a cargo / logistics subsidiary, conducted a strategic due diligence process for inorganic growth, or screened the recovery performance in case of operational disruptions.

Markus holds diploma in aerospace engineering and in economic sciences from the Technical University of Aachen (RWTH), Germany, and was awarded a doctorate in Engineering. 

Laddie Irion

Partner

Tampa, FL, USA

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Laddie is a Partner with M2P Consulting where he provides strategic management and technical consulting to airports, airlines and transportation agencies. He is based in Tampa, Florida.    

He has over 35 years of experience providing consulting services to the FAA, airlines and a wide variety of airports in the U.S. and abroad. His career focus has been on the implementation of large-scale airport development programs, with a specialization in the strategic integration of planning, environmental and design phases toward successful program implementation. His experience working with the FAA included training, research and policy support contracts, airspace studies and NEPA studies. Laddie has also been highly engaged in advisor, leadership and board level positions in key industry associations and organizations including Airports Council International, American Association of Airport Executives and the Airport Consultant’s Council.  He has held Senior Vice President and Vice President positions as the aviation sector leader at three major U.S. consulting firms: URS Corporation, HNTB Corporation, and Parsons Corporation.

Laddie is a graduate of the University of South Florida (Tampa) with a BA in Biology and supplemental studies in Environmental Engineering, Computer Science and Simulation Modeling.