Position: Senior Manager
Location: Washington DC
Salary: Confidential
Assignment Timescale: 5 weeks
Result: Completed
Context
A leading US strategy consultancy was looking to strengthen its Private Equity advisory offering. The focus was on building depth in commercial due diligence and value creation, with senior capability that could operate confidently with fund partners and portfolio company leadership.
Challenge
The firm needed a senior hire with strong buy-side and sell-side experience, able to lead complex CDD work and help scale delivery across predominantly B2B professional and business services. Credibility with investors was critical, as was the ability to contribute to long-term practice growth.
Solution
Consulting Point introduced a great candidate who is an experienced strategy and M&A professional with over 10 years of experience spanning investment management, consulting, and private equity advisory. Having recently worked as Vice President of Strategy for a leading global investment bank, where they led key initiatives including a $1.5B+ acquisition, the launch of a $200M U.S. private credit business, and strategic planning for a $50B+ investment platform. Previous to this role, our candidate worked for a global strategy consultancy delivering 20+ commercial and vendor due diligences (CDDs/VDDs) across Professional Services, TMT, and Industrials, advising both corporate and private equity clients on growth and transaction strategy..
Outcome
The appointment strengthened the firm’s US Private Equity platform and supported faster execution of its growth plans. The hire helped deepen relationships with priority sponsors, deliver investor-level insight on live transactions and increase capacity to lead and win larger CDD engagements. It placed a commercially credible leader into a strategically important practice, aligned closely to the firm’s direction.
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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
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 20 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.
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