Barnabas Bognar. Strategy and technology professional with experience across McKinsey, BlackRock, and Avaloq, combining strategic problem-solving and execution with hands-on entrepreneurial and software development experience. Strong analytical and technical background, with expertise and interest in systematic trading, financial markets, and technology.
Roberto Romano. Roberto is an independent strategy consultant and a former Bain & Company consultant, working remotely with clients across the US and Brazil. His work centers on pricing strategy, cost reduction, market sizing and competitive benchmarking, alongside program and product delivery for initiatives that span several teams. Recent engagements include a service contract redesign […]
Gail Ferreira explores the common problem of integration when adopting AI and introduces a framework that delivers the solution. The gap is not in ambition. It is in execution systems. Organizations, governments, and global institutions are investing heavily in artificial intelligence and sustainability. The ambition is clear. The funding is there. The urgency is real. […]
Michael Farmer summarizes three generations of procurement and explains how it changed how industry worked with creative agencies. There have been three Procurement generations in client-agency relationships. The third generation only knows fee bashing — and it’s ignorant of its potential to improve advertising’s effectiveness. The First Generation of Procurement, 1990-2005 The First Generation of […]
Julien Schneider. Julien is an experienced operator and value creation executive with over 15 years of experience in driving EBITDA improvement and commercial growth. He has a proven track record in restructuring organizations and leading M&A initiatives, with a prior consulting career at BCG across various sectors.
Nisha Dass. Nisha is an Executive Advisor and Fractional Chief Strategy Officer with 25+ years of enterprise strategy leadership bridging McKinsey & Company (Associate Principal) and corporate VP roles across Fortune 100 platforms. Through Soline Advisory, she partners with founders, CEOs, and private equity leadership to conduct strategic diagnostics, unlock growth vectors, and drive high-conviction […]
Fattani Faisal highlights the social and economic benefits of grassroot sports and shares eight trends that are changing the outlook on grassroot sports. Frequently underserved compared to professional and purely commercial segments in sport, grassroot communities play a foundational role across society, wellbeing, and the very economics of the broader sport ecosystem; yet, investment decisions […]
Amar Raval. Amar is an enterprise strategy and transformation leader with over 14 years of experience leading large-scale transformation initiatives across Fortune 500 and highly regulated organizations. His work spans operating model modernization, M&A integration and separation, enterprise risk and cybersecurity transformation, and governance redesign. He specializes in translating enterprise strategy into measurable financial, operational, […]
Smaranda Gosa-Mensing shares insights on agentic AI from her time moderating a panel on AI Week at Grant Thornton in Ireland. This morning I was delighted to moderate a panel on agentic AI as part of our All In on AI Week at Grant Thornton Ireland with 4 esteemed panellists. And what a conversation it […]
Earl Hoover. Earl is a petroleum engineer turned strategy and operations consultant. He spent seven years at Kosmos Energy as a reservoir and production engineer across West Africa and Europe, working on field development, production optimization and emissions reduction, and three years at McKinsey, most recently as an Engagement Manager leading operations and post-merger integration […]
Yéwándé Faloyin highlights the problem of an all-too-common pattern leaders often experience when stepping into the role and explains how to address the issue. There’s a leadership pattern I keep noticing. From the outside, everything looks great. From the inside, something feels… slightly unsettled… This was the case for my client, Sami. She had just […]
Sameh Elrefaei shares his experience of layoffs when he had to create an ‘affliction list’ and a ‘synergies approach’ presentation. It’s one of the most dreaded but increasingly frequent phenomena in corporate enterprises these days. Lay offs. An intriguingly awkward name given after years of softening and humanizing an action in which you’re telling someone […]