Position: Senior Director. Private Equity CDD and Strategy
Location: New York/Arlington
Salary: Confidential
Assignment Timescale: 8 weeks
Result: Completed
Challenge
A top-tier U.S. strategy consultancy set out to elevate its Private Equity advisory offering by expanding its commercial due diligence (CDD) and value creation capabilities. The goal was clear: attract senior leaders with deep buy- and sell-side experience, professionals who could engage confidently with fund partners and portfolio company CEOs, while scaling delivery across industrials, infrastructure, and sustainability-linked sectors.
Solution
Consulting Point delivered a senior MBB-trained executive with a rare combination of consulting, investing, and operational expertise. With nearly 20 years of experience, including a leadership role in a global private equity strategy practice, this individual brought a distinctive and commercially impactful profile. Their background in principal investing and board-level leadership brought a level of investor credibility rarely found in consulting hires.
Impact
This appointment reinforced the firm’s U.S. market position and accelerated its PE growth agenda. It enabled the consultancy to:
• Deepen relationships with key sponsors in core industry verticals
• Provide investor-grade insight with the delivery agility clients expect
• Increase capacity to lead and secure high-value CDD mandates
• Embed a proven, commercially credible leader within a strategically important practice
This was a focused, insight-led hire, aligned with the firm’s growth strategy and designed to deliver impact from day one.
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Position: Senior Partner
Expertise: Management Consultancies
Geographies: Global
Rakesh founded Consulting Point in 2003 and has led the company’s quest to find and attract the best management consulting talent in the world.
His prior experience in Management Consultancy with PwC & KPMG Consulting combined with over 21 years of search has proved a potent combination and as a result he is now retained by some of the biggest and brightest names in management consultancy to assist with their talent attraction.
Rakesh has been recognised with numerous awards, including being named as the Best Management Consultant Recruiter of the Year for 6 consecutive years by Top Consultant.
Position: Partner
Expertise: Senior Search
Geographies: Global
Pradeep has over twenty years of experience in management consulting and also executive search.
He started his career off with an MBA from Aston University and then was a corporate strategy consultant for UPS in the US and Europe. He was headhunted to join Andersen Consulting and helped develop the Strategy Practice. He also had significant experience in the digital sector heading up iXL Scient across Europe. He joined Consulting Point and is a Director within the firm focusing on verticals including TMT, Retail CPG, FS, and Industrials. His sector expertise covers Corporate Strategy, Marketing & Sales, and Operations
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