10 consulting executives
Consulting executives in this set include the chair and CEO of Deloitte Consulting LLP, the chairman of IBM Consulting, Accenture's EMEA CEO and the CEOs of Avasant, Ankura, Horváth USA, West Monroe, Credera North America and Teneo's management consulting business, plus RGP's president of global consulting services. Five list only roles at their current firm, which suits firm leaders deciding where to grow, how to organize regions and practices, or how to scale delivery.
Professionals to explore
Gil Mermelstein
LinkedInExperience: Chief Executive Officer · West Monroe
Chief Executive Officer of West Monroe since July 2025, Gil Mermelstein was President (2024-2025) and Chief Operating Officer (2023-2024) there. Senior Managing Director at West Monroe (2010-2021) and Managing Partner at West Monroe Partners (2021-2024) round out a career that fits questions on moving from operating roles into the CEO seat at a consulting firm.
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Jason Salzetti
LinkedInExperience: Chair and CEO, Deloitte Consulting LLP · Deloitte
Jason Salzetti has been Chair and CEO, Deloitte Consulting LLP since January 2025 and a Principal at Deloitte since 1995, with a summary citing a Deloitte tenure of nearly 30 years. Jason has also been Board Chair at Children Now since 2013, and the long Deloitte tenure makes Jason a fit for questions on leading a consulting business as a long-time principal.
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John Granger
LinkedInExperience: Former Senior Vice President, IBM Consulting · IBM
Chairman, IBM Consulting since July 2024 and Senior Vice President, IBM Consulting (2022-2024), John Granger describes IBM Consulting as IBM's global professional consulting services unit with 160,000 consultants. Earlier IBM titles include Chief Operating Officer, IBM Global Business Services (2018-2021) and Senior Vice President Hybrid Cloud Services and Chief Operating Officer, IBM Consulting (2021).
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Kevin Erickson
LinkedInExperience: North America CEO · Credera
Kevin Erickson has held these titles at Credera: Senior Manager, Management Consulting (2011-2014), Principal and Management Consulting Practice Lead (2014-2018), Partner, Denver Market Lead, and Delivery Operations (2018-2023), North America Chief Operating Officer (2023-2024) and North America CEO since January 2025. Kevin cites nearly 30 years of consulting experience, relevant to scaling delivery and leading a local market.
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Kevin Lavin
LinkedInExperience: Chief Executive Officer · Ankura
Restructuring is the thread in Kevin Lavin's career: Global Co-Leader of Corporate Finance Restructuring Practice at FTI Consulting (2002-2014) and Emergency Manager for Atlantic City, New Jersey (2015-2016). At Ankura the titles are Co President (2016-2019) and Chief Executive Officer since January 2020, a fit for questions on taking restructuring experience into a firm CEO role.
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Kevin S. Parikh
LinkedInExperience: Chairman & CEO · Avasant
Kevin S. Parikh has been Chairman & CEO of Avasant since October 2006, which Kevin describes as a management consulting firm helping clients across the lifecycle of IT and business process challenges. VP & Global Sourcing Leader at Gartner (2000-2006), Senior Manager at KPMG US (1998-2000) and Attorney Advisor at the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) (1993-1998) suit questions on building a management consulting firm.
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Mauro Macchi
LinkedInExperience: CEO - Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) · Accenture
Based in Milan, Mauro Macchi has been CEO - Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) at Accenture since September 2024 and has also held President & CEO Accenture Italy - Market Unit Lead Italy, Central Europe, Greece since 2023. Mauro's summary says the EMEA teams accounted for $22.82 billion of Accenture's revenues in fiscal year 2024; earlier Accenture roles include Senior Managing Director - Accenture Strategy & Consulting Lead for Europe (2020-2021).
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René Linsner
LinkedInExperience: President and CEO · Horváth USA
U.S. growth strategy for Horváth is what René Linsner describes leading as President and CEO of Horváth USA since May 2022, with a Partner title at Horváth since 2002 and more than two decades there. Based in Boston, René fits questions on setting a US growth strategy for a consulting firm.
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Scott Rottmann
LinkedInExperience: President - Global Consulting Services · RGP
Since December 2025, Scott Rottmann has been President - Global Consulting Services at RGP, after President - CFO Advisory there (2025). Principal Partner at EY-Parthenon (2019-2025), Senior Vice President and Global Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) Leader at Genpact (2018-2019) and Managing Director and Commercial Sector Leader at Highspring (Formerly MorganFranklin Consulting) (2012-2018) fit finance transformation questions.
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Tim Nixon
LinkedInExperience: CEO - Management Consulting · Teneo
Tim Nixon's Teneo titles run from Senior Managing Director (2017-2020) and Head of UK Consulting (2020-2022) to Head of Consulting - US & UK (2022-2023) and CEO - Management Consulting since September 2023. In Tim's own words, the role includes membership on the Teneo Global Executive Committee and responsibility for the UK and US management consulting division and the Technology Strategy & Transformation practice; Tim was also Partner at Credo Business Consulting LLP (2014-2017).
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Choose the right perspective
Jason Salzetti, John Granger and Mauro Macchi hold top consulting titles at Deloitte, IBM and Accenture, so they fit questions on running a consulting business or region inside a larger firm. Kevin S. Parikh, Kevin Lavin, Gil Mermelstein and René Linsner fit questions on leading a whole firm as CEO, Kevin Erickson and Tim Nixon fit scaling a regional or US and UK consulting business, and Scott Rottmann fits building a CFO advisory or finance transformation practice.
Questions to take into the conversation
- 01How should a consulting firm decide which practices and regions to invest in when demand shifts toward AI and technology work?
- 02What changes in delivery and staffing when a consulting firm moves from a regional player to a global one?
- 03How do you keep partners focused on firm-wide growth rather than only their own client accounts?
About this directory
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