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10 AI strategy consultants
These ten AI strategy consultants advise companies on AI strategy, either at consulting firms or through their own practices. A reader can learn how an experienced AI strategy consultant picks use cases, builds a roadmap that leadership will fund and moves projects from pilot to production.
Professionals to explore
01—10Aniruddha A Navur
LinkedInExperience: Director Founder AI Strategy Consultant · Insights Harbor AI
Director Founder AI Strategy Consultant at Insights Harbor AI since 2025. His profile describes him as an independent AI strategy consultant (ex-TCS) who helps regulated industries turn AI adoption into production systems that ship, scale and stay safe. At Tata Consultancy Services his listed roles include AI-led Agile Transformation (2023–2025) and Scrum Master Portfolio Manager (2020–2023).
David Johnson
LinkedInExperience: Managing Director Enterprise AI Strategy and Enablement · KPMG
Managing Director Enterprise AI Strategy and Enablement at KPMG since 2025. At North Highland he was Sr. Managing Director Global AI Practice Leader (2022–2025) and Vice President, Insights and AI Enterprise Architecture (2022). His profile describes him as an AI strategist and advisor to Fortune 500 executives and public sector leaders who builds and implements scalable AI solutions.
Derreck Van Gelderen
LinkedInExperience: Associate Partner - Head of AI Strategy and AI Energy Lead · PA Consulting
Associate Partner - Head of AI Strategy and AI Energy Lead at PA Consulting since 2025. At PA Consulting he was also Head of AI Strategy - Managing Consultant (2022–2025), AI Energy Lead - Managing Consultant (2022–2025), Principal Consultant (2021–2022) and Consultant (2019–2021). His profile says he leads PA Consulting's AI and Investment Strategy practice across private and public sector organisations and co-authored A leader's guide to generative AI.
Kayleigh Chapman
LinkedInExperience: Vice President of AI Strategy · AI Strategy Advisory (Independent)
Vice President of AI Strategy at AI Strategy Advisory, an independent practice, since 2022. Her profile says she is based in New York and helps enterprises turn AI into revenue and scale generative AI into real-world impact, noting that the challenge is rarely the technology itself.
Kelvin Terrell, CAIC
LinkedInExperience: Founder & Principal AI Strategist · PathForge Consultants
Founder & Principal AI Strategist at PathForge Consultants since 2025, helping mid-market CTOs and CIOs go from an AI roadmap to results. He was Information Technology Manager at Fidelity National Financial (2022–2025), IT Manager at Florida Blue (2016–2022) and Director Software Delivery at Beeline (2011–2016).
Lukas Kemkes
LinkedInExperience: Founder & Managing Director · Kemkes AI Consulting
Founder & Managing Director of Kemkes AI Consulting since 2024, and Generative AI & MLOps Consultant working freelance in 2023. His profile says he helps companies build the right AI strategy, develop a proof-of-concept and implement AI in production. He was Co-Founder & CEO of Creatext (2020–2023).
Manny Chekuri
LinkedInExperience: AI Strategy Senior Manager · Deloitte
AI Strategy Senior Manager at Deloitte since 2025. He was AI Strategy Manager (2023–2025) and AI Strategy Consultant (2022–2023) at Accenture, and Digital Innovation Lead - Applied AI CoE at Mondelēz International (2020–2022). His profile says he helps global enterprises turn AI and GenAI experiments into funded, scaled transformation programmes with measurable business outcomes.
Peer Paulsen
LinkedInExperience: Founder & Principal Consultant AI Strategy & Transformation Leader · Peer Paulsen – Digital & AI Strategy Consulting
Founder & Principal Consultant AI Strategy & Transformation Leader at Peer Paulsen – Digital & AI Strategy Consulting since 2025. He was CEO of Pro Data Systems GmbH (2016–2024) and Chief Business Development Officer (CBDO) at Service & Print Group Haberbeck (2018–2019). His profile describes experience in digital and strategy consulting on client projects and a focus on AI-driven business transformation.
Sebastian Wilke
LinkedInExperience: Director of AI Strategy & Transformation · Singularity IO
Director of AI Strategy & Transformation at Singularity IO since 2020. His profile describes him as founder of Singularity IO, a Zurich-based boutique strategy firm that advises mid-sized and large Swiss and international companies on AI strategy. He was Global Lead Solution Engineer for ABB at Salesforce (2017–2019) and Senior Management Consultant at Accenture Song (2015).
Will Clevenger
LinkedInExperience: Managing Director, AI Growth Strategy Management Consulting · RSM US LLP
Managing Director, AI Growth Strategy Management Consulting at RSM US LLP since 2026. He was Head of AI Strategy - Avanade JV (2025–2026) and Senior Director Strategy Agentic & Generative AI (2023–2025) at Accenture, and Senior Managing Director Strategy and Growth at Ascent Solutions (2020–2023). His profile describes leading strategy for predictive, generative and agentic AI for US industries at Avanade, an Accenture joint venture.
Choose the right perspective
Match the consultant's setting to your needs, since advisors at large consulting firms and independent practitioners tend to run different kinds of engagements. Ask each person which AI projects they have taken past the pilot stage and how they measured the results.
Questions to take into the conversation
- 01How do you decide which AI use cases a company should fund first?
- 02What usually stops an AI pilot from reaching production, and how do you plan around it?
- 03How should a company measure whether its AI strategy is paying off in the first year?
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