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Wesley Davis New York, NY MSc, Purdue University McKinsey & Co EY-Parthenon National FFA Org
New Member Announcement

Umbrex, a global community of independent management consultants with prior experience at top-tier firms, is pleased to welcome our newest member, Wesley Davis with Meridian Agribusiness Advisors. Wesley is a seasoned agricultural economist and strategy consultant with extensive experience in the agribusiness sector. He has held leadership roles at Meridian Agribusiness Advisors and McKinsey & […]

Oluwatosin Abdulsalam Dusseldorf, Germany PhD, Friedrich Schiller University Jena Bain & Co Winogradsky Consulting Corbiota
Thought Leadership

Oluwatosin Abdulsalam shares findings from the new Nature Microbiology paper on gut bacteria at the protein level and how it affects research on microbiome products. 𝗬𝗼𝘂𝗿 “𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗼 𝗺𝗶𝗰𝗿𝗼𝗯𝗲” 𝗯𝗲𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗲𝘀 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗹𝗲𝘁𝗲𝗹𝘆 𝗱𝗶𝗳𝗳𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗹𝘆 𝗼𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗶𝘁 𝗺𝗲𝗲𝘁𝘀 𝗼𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿𝘀. 𝗦𝗰𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗷𝘂𝘀𝘁 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗱 𝗶𝘁. I saw a post from Prof. Itzhak Mizrahi this morning, about the new Nature Microbiology paper […]

Mikhail Verbitsky Dubai, UAE MBA, PWC Academy McKinsey & Co Roland Berger Effortel
New Member Announcement

Umbrex, a global community of independent management consultants with prior experience at top-tier firms, is pleased to welcome our newest member, Mikhail Verbitsky. A summary of Mikhail’s experience follows. “I help governments and large enterprises translate strategy into real digital outcomes from AI-enabled services to national-scale transformation programs. My background blends top-tier consulting, public-sector modernization, […]

Ali Soomro San Francisco, CA MPhil, Cambridge McKinsey & Co Google
New Member Announcement

Umbrex, a global community of independent management consultants with prior experience at top-tier firms, is pleased to welcome our newest member, Ali Soomro. Ali spent seven years in the Corporate Finance and Operations practice at McKinsey before joining Google, where he led Corporate Strategy and Operations for nine years across global functions including procurement, vendor […]

Sharmila Natarajan New York, NY MBA, American U McKinsey & Co Deloitte Bloomberg Media
New Member Announcement

Umbrex, a global community of independent management consultants with prior experience at top-tier firms, is pleased to welcome our newest member, Sharmila Natarajan with SN Strategy Consulting. Sharmila is an experienced strategy consultant with a strong background in media, entertainment, and technology. She has held leadership roles at Bloomberg Media and Deloitte, and has extensive […]

Alexander Adamov Berlin, Germany Msc, London School of Economics McKinsey Yara International Platinum Equity
Thought Leadership

Alexander Adamov identifies a recurring problem in AI adoption, and explains why it happens. The biggest ⚠️ AI implementation gap ⚠️ I see is that leadership cannot clearly describe what they want. A piece by cybersecurity and AI expert Daniel Miessler circulating right now lays out what the author calls the most important ideas in […]

Jamie Cattell Farmingville, NY MBA, INSEAD McKinsey IBM IQVIA
Thought Leadership

Jamie Cattell explains how to integrate AI product strategy into offerings and avoid common AI-commercialization pain. Every executive team is now asking some version of the same question: What is our AI product strategy? In most cases, that question is still too fuzzy to be useful. The real question is simpler and harder. What role […]

Arnaud Complainville Paris, France PhD, HEC Paris BCG Cephalon LFB
New Member Announcement

Umbrex, a global community of independent management consultants with prior experience at top-tier firms, is pleased to welcome our newest member, Arnaud Complainville, PhD. Arnaud is Managing Partner at NeuroMindfulness® Institute and a former business strategy international executive. Before co-founding NeuroMindfulness® Institute Arnaud worked as a consultant for the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) and held […]

Yuji Li New York, NY MS, M.I.T. McKinsey Meta Reddit
New Member Announcement

Umbrex, a global community of independent management consultants with prior experience at top-tier firms, is pleased to welcome our newest member, Yuji Li with YL Coaching & Consulting. Yuji is an executive coach and consultant with over 15 years of experience leading Strategy and Operations (S&O) functions within the technology and digital advertising sectors. Following […]

Chad Baures Victoria, MN BS, U of Minnesota Bain FRWD Clarus Consulting
Thought Leadership

Chad Baures shares a short post and links to a comprehensive guide on accessing Amazon Marketing Cloud data without a SQL developer and his free book download, Paid Search: The Seven Fundamentals. For people who run Amazon Ads campaigns … If you didn’t know, you can now pull Amazon Marketing Cloud data yourself — no […]

Jamie Cattell Farmingville, NY MBA, INSEAD McKinsey IBM IQVIA
New Member Announcement

Umbrex, a global community of independent management consultants with prior experience at top-tier firms, is pleased to welcome our newest member, Jamie Cattell with Cattell Consulting. Jamie is a seasoned operator-consultant and board/C-suite advisor with over 25 years of experience in strategy, transformation, AI/data, analytics, and tech-enabled services. He has held leadership roles at McKinsey […]

Adam Somauroo London, England MSc, University of Nottingham McKinsey & Co Clarivate Analytics CIRS
Thought Leadership

Adam Somauroo shares the first in a series of articles on health tech and how AI is being used to detect cancer. Cancer remains one of the most complex and urgent healthcare challenges of our time. Despite decades of research, rising incidence and mortality worldwide reflect how difficult it is to prevent, detect, and treat […]