The Consulting Report

Anjana Mistry has spent more than 25 years inside the machinery of global business—across finance, strategy, operations, and commercial leadership. At IBM, she worked across Europe, Asia, and the U.S., eventually serving as CFO and Commercial Leader for the U.K. and Ireland. Since joining Emergn in 2019, she has taken that broad view into a role that sits at the center of how...

Mahesh Kumar was teaching and researching data analytics when companies began coming to him with a recurring question: could these mathematical models actually solve real business problems? He believed they could. In 2011, Kumar left academia to found Tiger Analytics, starting with a team of roughly 10 data scientists and engineers. Fifteen years later, the company has grown ...

EY has named David Leckstein its Americas Chief AI and Product Officer and Americas Consulting Strategy Leader, placing the longtime Accenture executive in charge of its regional AI, product, and platform strategy.

Leckstein spent nearly 29 years at Accenture, most recently serving as senior managing director and lead for Americas technology. He previously led the c...

Scott Staples joined First Advantage as CEO in 2017 after co-founding and scaling the global IT services firm Mindtree. Over his tenure, he has led a full-scale technology transformation at the background screening and digital identity company—taking First Advantage public in 2021, boosting customer retention to 97%, and shifting the business toward mobile apps, automation, a...

Grant Thornton Advisors has agreed to acquire CBIZ in an all-cash transaction valued at $5 billion, creating what the companies say will be the fifth-largest U.S. provider of professional services, tax, and advisory services. CBIZ shareholders would receive $55 per share, a roughly 54% premium to the company’s 30-day volume-weighted average share price.

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