Umbrex is pleased to welcome Emily Chacra. Emily currently works as an independent consultant. Before starting her own business, she served as a Consultant at Boston Consulting Group, with mandates in the CPG and industrial goods sectors across strategy, operations, procurement, transformation, and project management. Prior to that, she was Vice President of Brand and […]
Umbrex is pleased to welcome Pasi Junnila with Considero Oy. A summary of Pasi’s experience follows. “Practically always in Management Consulting; Accenture, SIAR-Bossard, BCG. After that, own practice Considero Oy, and during the years a couple of jointly owned companies with old colleagues. A generalist. So many years behind, that I have a fairly wide […]
Liron Brish takes a look back at a future view of agriculture from a 50-year-old National Geographic article. I came across this 50 year old article in National Geographic (February 1970) describing technological and agronomic developments of the time and experts’ views of what agriculture will look like in the early 20th century. What I […]
Umbrex is pleased to welcome James Thao with Apstelios. James is a consulting strategist and military veteran with nearly 20 years of leadership experience. Before founding Apstelios, James worked in management consulting at Accenture and Boston Consulting Group (BCG), where he advised 30+ of the top global Fortune 500 companies. At Apstelios, he focuses on […]
Umbrex is pleased to welcome Atsuko Jenks with Japan Accelerator. A summary of Atsuko’s experience follows “Based in Silicon Valley, I have advised Japanese and American corporations, Silicon Valley startups and German startups for the past 20 years as a strategy consultant. At Japan Accelerator in Silicon Valley, we are connecting Japanese corporations and technology […]
Umbrex is pleased to welcome Adam Freilich. Adam is an experienced implementation & strategy consultant and project manager, with expertise in agile methodologies, implementation strategies, and manufacturing. After early specialization in IT and Software and IBM subsidiaries and New York-based startups, Adam joined McKinsey and expanded his focus across CPG and manufacturing environments. Since leaving […]
Umbrex is pleased to welcome Ali Benjelloun. A summary of Ali’s experience follows. “Graduated from Centrale Paris, my professional experiences and my education are mainly oriented in strategy and finance, specially in Banking industry through my professional experiences within three key actors of the worldwide Business Consulting. My main experiences within Consulting services were oriented […]
Thokozile Lewanika shares a short but inspirational summarized story. CELEBRATING INSPIRATIONAL WOMEN An unexpected encounter at the car wash yesterday left me in awe! Ntando Cokoto, a highly engaging young woman, shared how my talk at the Federated Management Institute Annual Women’s Leadership Conference in Sandton last month inspired her. But her own story stole […]
Alonzo Page shares a quick tip on how he secured his first million-view hit on TikTok. 🎉 TikTok Journey Update: First Million-View Video On day 19 of my journey, I hit my first video with over 1 million views! 🚀 Current video stats: 1.3M views 99.7K likes 1.5K comments 3.3K bookmarks Here’s what I learned […]
Sanjay Pal shares a concise post and a link to an article on the pros and cons of retail credit cards. Private Label Credit Cards (PLCC) can be a powerful customer engagement tool. > It “extends the wallet” for the credit needy customer. > Gives the retailer a “captive incremental spend” since the card only […]
Umbrex is pleased to welcome Oyinda Ajayi with Oyinda A Consulting. Oyinda has 9+ years of in strategy and operations. Since working as a consultant at Bain & Company, she has served as a PE operating executive, where she focused on customer experience transformation, revenue operations professionalization, and process and operations optimization. Oyinda has also […]
Umbrex is pleased to welcome Thokozile Lewanika with DML45 Consulting. Thokozile began her career as a molecular and cell biology postdoctoral researcher at the University of Cape Town. She then spent five and a half years at McKinsey where she specialised as a Senior Expert in the Organisation Practice focused on Performance Transformations, Culture Change, […]