Transformation World 2026 · PwC
Harry Schuster is a partner in PwC’s Deals practice, where he advises organizations through the complexity of carve-outs — the process of separating a business unit from its parent to prepare it for sale, spin-off, or standalone operation. Speaking at Transformation World 2026 in Heidelberg, Schuster discusses the questions clients most often bring to a carve-out, and introduces Carve-Out Intelligence, a new co-innovation between SAP and PwC built to speed up how that complexity gets assessed.
“We can deliver results within seven days, and that’s our commitment.”
Schuster contrasts this with the classical approach to carve-out preparation, which typically runs four to six weeks of interviews and manual assessment across the business just to gauge the level of integration. Carve-Out Intelligence instead extracts data directly from client systems and runs it through an AI-enabled, rule-based engine built on PwC’s prior project knowledge — cutting the timeline to seven days while, because it’s rule-based, delivering the same result every time the exercise is repeated. For Schuster, that combination of speed and consistency is what makes the solution a genuine step change rather than an incremental improvement.
About the Guest
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Harry SchusterPartner, Deals Practice, PwC Harry Schuster is a partner in PwC’s Deals practice, specializing in carve-outs and business separations. He leads client engagements through the assessment, planning, and execution of carve-out transactions, and has helped develop Carve-Out Intelligence, a joint innovation with SAP that combines automated data extraction with PwC’s deal advisory expertise to accelerate and standardize how carve-out complexity is assessed. |
