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Shivaji Dasgupta Milan, Italy PhD, Tech University of Munich McKinsey & Co Deutsche Bank UniCredit
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, Shivaji Dasgupta with Tad. Venture. Shivaji helps organizations unlock business value through technology, cloud, data, and AI-driven transformations. With over 15 years of leadership experience spanning management consulting at McKinsey & Co., senior executive […]

Paul Reddick Austin, TX MBA, Stanford McKinsey & Co Google Sprint
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, Paul Reddick with Reddick & Company. Paul is a strategic advisor, consultant, and board member with over 30 years of experience in technology, digital media, and telecommunications. Known for simplifying emerging technologies into real-world […]

Brian Landau Chicago, IL MBA, Kellog McKinsey & Co Booz & Co TransUnion
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, Brian Landau with Landau Advisers. Senior leader and former top-100 executive of a 10,000-plus person organization with over 20 years of experience in management consulting, corporate strategy & business development, business and digital transformation, […]

Tony Lau London, England MSc, London School of Econ BCG SEEK Asia
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, Tony Lau with Pointer & Pathway Partners. Tony has been a strategy consultant with 20+ years of experience helping businesses — from early-stage startups to global corporates — turn ideas into practical growth. His […]

Dhruv Goel Houston, TX MBA, Kellogg Bain & Co Ernst & Young Uber
Thought Leadership

Dhruv Goel shares his experience of using AI in this short post. I built an AI Agent to Help Me Prioritize Tasks I’ve been testing AI automation tools for a few months now, but this week I finally took the plunge with n8n…and I get the hype. After just 2 hours of tinkering, I had […]

Karin del Rey Singapore MBA, INSEAD McKinsey & Co Lloyds Banking Group Ula
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, Karin del Rey. Karin has been working with start-ups and VCs in South East Asia for the past 5 years, managing fundraising and investor relations, strategy and org, from Seed to Series B. Before this […]

Nima Baharlooie Copenhagen, Denmark LLM, U of Copenhagen McKinsey & Co Capture One Coop Denmark
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, Nima Baharlooie. A summary of Nima’s experience follows. “Hands-on, pragmatic & people focused advisor: Drawing on my experience from management consulting and law, as well as operational & leadership experience from corporates and scale-ups, […]

Yewande Faloyin London, England MEng, Imperial College London McKinsey & Co Morgan Stanley OTITỌ Consulting
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, Yewande Faloyin with OTITỌ Consulting. Yewande, founder of OTITǪ Leadership & People Development, is a business advisor, McKinsey alum, and certified Executive Leadership Coach. At OTITǪ, Yewande and her team help growth-stage businesses and […]

Scott Rhind Detroit, MI MA, Oxford McKinsey & Co Elevance Health U.S. Army
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, Scott Rhind. Scott spent four years as an engagement manager and consultant at McKinsey focusing on healthcare payers and financial institutions. He subsequently led teams at various healthcare companies focusing on payment integrity, operational […]

Stefan Schopf Dusseldorf, Germany MBA, Budapest Univ of Economic Sciences Boston Consulting Group Accenture Capgemini
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, Stefan Schopf with Aimo AG. A summary of Stefan’s experience follows. “I am supporting the senior management of major corporations in developing strategies, transforming their organizations, progressing their business models with (digital) innovations and […]

Yewande Faloyin London, England MEng, Imperial College London McKinsey & Co Morgan Stanley OTITỌ Consulting
Thought Leadership

Yewande Faloyin shares a recent post from the Lead Smarter, Not Harder newsletter, which explains how to move the needle towards smart daily practices and productivity. Last month, my calendar looked like a high-stakes game of Tetris – back-to-backs, big deadlines, exciting projects stacked on top of each other. (Sound familiar? 😅) I caught myself […]

Charles Douglas Hunter Portland, OR MBA, Booth Boston Consulting Group A-Connect
Thought Leadership

Doug Hunter explains the process of making a marketing video using AI. Going from a “concept on a napkin” to a “polished video on the web” used to take weeks. Now, with GenAI, getting that polished video can take less than a half hour. As a proof on concept, I used Descript’s new integration with […]