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At Best Startup US we track over 1,000,000 US startups and over 3 million people who hold key positions in these companies. We use this directory of startups to highlight top employees, founders and board members we think deserve more appreciation than they are currently getting.
This list showcases the top United States based Partner operating in the Consulting space. If you think a Partner is missing from this list, feel free to contact our editor on editor@beststartup.us.
The individuals on this list have been included because of exceptional performance in one of the following categories:
- Innovation – Operating as a key part in an extremely innovative business or startup.
- Growth – Operating as a key figure in the growth and upscale of a market leading business or startup.
- Management – Showing exceptional management skills.
- Societal impact – Putting their business on the map for their positive societal or environmental impact.
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
David Foley
Sr. Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Blackstone Energy Partners of Blackstone Group
David I. Foley is a Senior Managing Director in the Private Equity Group and Chief Executive Officer of Blackstone Energy Partners. David Foley is based in New York and is responsible for overseeing Blackstone’s private equity investment activities in the energy & natural resource sector on a global basis. Since joining Blackstone in 1995, David Foley has been responsible for building the Blackstone energy & natural resources practice and has played an integral role in every private equity energy deal that the firm has invested in, including: Premcor, Kosmos Energy, Foundation Coal, Texas Genco, Sithe Global Power, OSUM Oil Sands, PBF Energy, Global Offshore Wind, GeoSouthern, Alta Resources, Moser Baer, Cheniere and LLOG Exploration. Before joining Blackstone, David Foley worked with AEA Investors in the firm’s private equity business, and prior to that served as a consultant for the Monitor Company. David Foley received a BA and an MA in Economics, with honors, Phi Beta Kappa, from Northwestern University and received an MBA with distinction from Harvard Business School.
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About Blackstone Group: Blackstone is an investment and advisory firm providing financial solutions for investors and clients.
Michael Petryczenko
Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Strategic Partners of Blackstone Group
Michael A. Petryczenko is a Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer for Strategic Partners, Blackstone’s secondary private fund of funds business, which was acquired from Credit Suisse in August 2013. Michael Petryczenko is involved with overseeing the financial reporting, tax structuring and treasury operations related to Strategic Partners’ secondary private equity funds. Before joining Strategic Partners, Michael Petryczenko was the Tax Manager for the Peabody Fund, an opportunistic real estate fund jointly managed by J.P. Morgan and The O’Connor Group. Prior to joining the Peabody Fund, Michael Petryczenko was a Tax Manager at Ernst and Young, LLP in the Real Estate Group. His clients included DLJ Real Estate Capital Partners and SL Green Realty Corp. Michael Petryczenko received a BS in Accounting from St. Francis College, New York and an MS in Taxation from Pace University, New York. He subsequently earned the C.P.A. designation.
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About Blackstone Group: Blackstone is an investment and advisory firm providing financial solutions for investors and clients.
Dennis Henner
Operating Partner of Blackstone Group
Dennis Henner is an Operating Partner in Blackstone Life Sciences group, having joined Blackstone as part of its acquisition of Clarus in December of 2018. Prior to joining Blackstone he was co-founder and Managing Director of Clarus for 12 years beginning in 2005 with the firm’s inception. Dr, Henner has over 30 years of direct industry and investment experience within the healthcare sector, and has led investments in the biopharmaceutical sector including partnerships with pharmaceutical companies. Prior to Clarus, Dr. Henner was a General Partner at MPM Capital, a healthcare venture capital firm. From 1981 to 2001, he was an executive at Genentech where he held various positions including Senior Vice President of Research, and was a member of Genentech’s executive committee. Dr. Henner is currently a member of the Board of Directors for Forty Seven Inc. (NASDAQ: FTSV) and Imago BioSciences. Dr. Henner received his PhD from the Department of Microbiology at the University of Virginia and did postgraduate training at the Scripps Clinic and Research Foundation. Dr. Henner is a member of the Board of Trustees of Reed College.
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About Aerie Pharmaceuticals, Blackstone Group: Blackstone is an investment and advisory firm providing financial solutions for investors and clients.
James Quella
Senior Managing Director and Senior Operating Partner of Blackstone Group
James Quella has been a director since December 2009. Quella was a Senior Managing Director and Senior Operating Partner in the Corporate Private Equity group of The Blackstone Group until June 30, 2013. Quella was responsible for monitoring the strategy and operational performance of Blackstone portfolio companies and providing direct assistance in the oversight of large investments. He was also a member of the firm’s Private Equity Investment Committee. Currently, James serves as a Senior Advisor to the Private Equity Group of Blackstone and continues to be involved in a few key portfolio companies as a board member and executive advisor, as well as participating in selected portfolio review processes and due diligence. Prior to joining Blackstone in 2004, Quella was a Managing Director and Senior Operating Partner with DLJ Merchant Banking Partners-CSFB Private Equity. Prior to that, Quella worked at Mercer Management Consulting and Strategic Planning Associates, its predecessor firm, where he served as a senior consultant to CEOs and senior management teams, and was Co-Vice Chairman with shared responsibility for overall management of the firm. Quella received a BA in International Studies from the University of Chicago/University of Wisconsin-Madison and an MBA with dean’s honors from the University of Chicago. He is also the co-author of Profit Patterns: 30 Ways to Anticipate and Profit from the Strategic Forces Reshaping Your Business. Quella has been a member of various private equity company boards and currently, in addition to Catalent, serves as a Director of Freescale Semiconductor, Inc., Michaels Stores, Inc., and DJO Global.
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JD Ross
General Partner of Atomic
JD is a co-founder focused on developing better experiences for home sellers and buyers. He has led the company’s growth team and product teams. Previously, as VP Product at Addepar, he launched products that brought over $100 billion in assets onto the technology platform.
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Ilya Golubovich
Founder, Managing Partner of I2BF Global Ventures
Ilya has been a partner since the fall of 2005. He is a member of the Board of Directors of JSC Russian Investors, a private equity group with $200 million under management, and Linxlogic, a business software corporation in Los Angeles. Ilya formerly worked in the Energy Department of the London office of Louis Dreyfus in commodity trading and as a project manager at the Siberian Internet Company (Sibintek) at both their Novosibirsk and Moscow offices. Mr. Golubovich has an industrial engineering degree from Stanford University.
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About Aeroxo, Buzzoola, Enki.com, I2BF Global Ventures, Octi, Presto, Primus Power, ServiceTitan: I2BF is a venture capital firm that focuses on early stage technology companies.
Tyler Tysdal
Managing Partner of Freedom Factory
Tyler Tysdal is the Managing Director of Freedom Factory. Tysdal’s has many years of experience in private equity funds and investor relations. At Freedom Factory, Tyler Tysdal’s decades of experience as an operator, investment banker, SEC expert, and private equity fund investor to use on behalf of fellow entrepreneurs following his same path. Possessing experience with more than 50 companies and their exits, Tyler Tysdal is an entrepreneur’s entrepreneur. He knows the hurdles business owners overcome, the worries that keep them up at night and the triumphs that carry them forward – because he has experienced them, too. Investors and business partners working with Tysdal, such as Robert Hirsch, find his skillset a great asset.
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Courtney Reum
Co-Founder and Partner of M13
Courtney Reum is an innovative eco-entrepreneur with a background in building consumer product brands. Prior to starting VEEV Spirits with his brother Carter, Reum began his career as an investment banker at Goldman Sachs. Today, VEEV is one of the pioneering artisanal brands in the spirits industry. The Reum brothers have been honored by several entrepreneurial groups including Inc. (“500 fastest-growing private companies in America”) and, most recently, the Goldman Sachs Builders and Innovators 100 (“Most Intriguing Entrepreneurs”). Reum is an active member of the Young Presidents’ Organization (YPO) and a periodic contributor to the Huffington Post and CNBC.
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About M13, Plus Capital: M13 provides strategic counsel and operational expertise to help founders grow their companies.
Karl Alomar
Managing Partner of M13
Karl Alomar is a serial entrepreneur turned investor with extensive experience in starting, developing and selling high growth businesses in various market segments. Karl co-founded two successful ventures of his own, followed by 6 years as COO at DigitalOcean helping build the company from ground up to $250MM ARR. Karl received his MBA from Columbia Business School in New York and a BEng in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from Imperial College London and currently hold the position of Managing Partner at venture firm M13.
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Anna Barber
Partner of M13
Anna Barber is a Partner at M13 and The Fund. Anna is a former managing director at Techstars, GM and VP of Partnerships at Finerpring, and Co-Founder and CEO of Scribbles Press.
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Latif Peracha
General Partner of M13
I spent 8 years working for Sir Richard Branson, and during this time frame I developed a clear understanding of how a single brand and visionary was able to scale 8 companies in disparate industries and geographies to a billion dollars or more of enterprise value. Specifically, Virgin’s fearless approach at entering markets is driven by its singular focus on creating a sustainable value proposition to the consumer, always enhanced by elegant technology, creative marketing strategies and the power of brand.
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Carter Reum
Co-Founder and Partner of M13
Carter Reum is the co-founder of M13, which he and his brother Courtney Reum founded after selling their spirits company VEEV. He co-founded VEEV around the idea of creating a better way to drink, all the while becoming one of Inc. Magazine’s 250 fastest growing companies. Carter serves on the board of Daily Harvest and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art has been recognized as one of Goldman Sachs’ Builders + Innovators Top 100 Most Intriguing Entrepreneurs and was selected as an Executive in Residence by the City of Los Angeles in 2017 to support the city’s branding initiatives. Carter co-authored Shortcut Your Startup with brother Courtney. He began his career as an investment banker in Goldman Sachs’ Industrials division and attended Columbia University for his Bachelor’s.
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Matt Hoffman
Partner, Head of Talent of M13
Matt is the VP, People at DigitalOcean and is responsible for leadership in the practice areas of talent acquisition, talent development, people operations, and employee experience. DO is one of the world’s leading cloud infrastructure solutions provider, and one of the fastest growing and most successful technology startups in NYC. In the three years Matt has been with DO it has grown from under 100 employees to close to 500; and has received a number of external recognitions including being named one of the top 7 Best Places to Work by USA Today. Matt is also the NY lead of PeopleTechPartners advisory group.
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Lizzie Francis
Partner of M13
Elizabeth is currently a Founding Partner at Brilliant Ventures, an early-stage VC firm in Los Angeles, California. Prior to that she was Chief Marketing Officer of Gilt. In this role, she was responsible for the company’s new customer generation and retention programs across all channels as well as creative direction, overall brand positioning, research and analytics. Elizabeth marketing and advertising experience—building and scaling emerging brands—in fashion, consumer packaged goods, and financial services companies- is known for her innovative, go-to-market strategies. She joined Gilt from Intelligent Beauty, a leading e-commerce and brand-building incubator where she was CMO. In addition to her responsibilities as Intelligent Beauty’s CMO, she was also President of JustFabulous (now TechStyle), an online fashion and accessories brand and an Intelligent Beauty venture. Prior to Intelligent Beauty, Elizabeth was a Vice President at Alena, a Fox Interactive Company, and also spent several years at LowerMyBills.com. Elizabeth holds a Bachelor of Arts from Cornell University.
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About Brilliant Ventures, Data & Marketing Association, Fashion Group International, M13: M13 provides strategic counsel and operational expertise to help founders grow their companies.
Brian Carroll
Partner of M13
I’ve held most startup roles at some point in my career. My progression may seem eclectic (from software engineering, to network engineering, to sales engineering, to marketing, to product, to VC [during business school], to startup operations exec, to startup finance exec, to private equity finance—whew) but it’s given me invaluable insight into the many (many) distinct worlds that come together to help a business succeed.
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Robert Olson
Partner, Head of Data Strategy of M13
Robert Olson is a Partner and Head of Data Strategy at M13. Prior to that, he was the Director of Data and Analytics at DigitalOcean and Director of Analytics and Insights at MDC Partners in the Performance Marketing Services Group. Olson obtained his bachelor’s degree in economics from Princeton University. He resides in New York, United States.
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Vinod Gupta
Managing General Partner & Chairman of Everest Group
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Dan Elron
Managing Partner, Corporate Strategy, Innovation and Technology of Accenture
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James Whitehead
Partner of Accenture
Brad Whitehead is Chief Scientist for Formularity, an electronic forms company dedicated to the secure collection and processing of personal information. Formerly, he was a Partner and Master Technology Architect with Accenture. Brad has architected and implemented several national-scale information processing systems based on the Actor model and queues. One such system processes billions of biometric transactions per day for the Republic of India, while another handles millions of biometric identification transactions each day while safeguarding the borders of the United States. He has served as a security advisor to several US Federal agencies, including the Department of Homeland Security, the Department of Defense, and the United States Postal Service. Brad holds a BS from Carnegie Mellon University and an MS from the University of Liverpool.
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Roger Roman
Founder & Partner of Push Consulting & Marketing
Roger Roman is the Co-Founder at AfriBlocks.
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Grace Kim
Founding Member & Director of Strategy & Partnerships of GOODcorps
Grace is a founding member and Director of Strategy and Partnerships. In her time at GOODcorps, Grace has worked with large organizations including Pepsi, Microsoft, The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and The California Endowment, on major social impact initiatives. Prior to GOOD, Grace designed marketing strategy for Fortune 500 companies and led a domestic poverty awareness program for Habitat for Humanity. A UCLA graduate, she pursued graduate studies in International Relations at Institut d’Etudes Poliques in Paris. In her free time, she advises purpose-driven organizations and co-produces TEDxSkid Row. She is a UCLA Anderson Riordan Fellow, Los Angeles Junior Chamber of Commerce RVLDP Fellow and former Rotary Foundation ambassador.
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Manoj Singh
Global Managing Partner – Operations of Deloitte
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Darwin Deano
Partner, Principal of Deloitte
Deano is the principal and SAP CTO for Deloitte Consulting LLP. He leads the technology and innovation strategy – converging Deloitte industry leading practices and strategic technology alliances with the SAP architecture ecosystem. He has more than 20 years of global technology advisory experience across multiple industries.
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Thalia Smith
Partner of Deloitte
Thalia Smith is a Partner in Deloitte’s Assurance and Advisory Insurance practice, with 16 years of experience across the financial services industry. Thalia leads Deloitte’s national insurtech initiative within the Emerging Growth Company practice. She works with insurtech startups to provide advisory support, including market entry/business strategy, accounting, tax, risk and compliance, audit, IPO readiness support, and sell-side advisory.
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Scott Lippstreu
Global Lead Consulting Partner – Global Crown Jewel Accounts of Deloitte
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William Ribaudo
Managing Partner of Deloitte
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Kerry Francis
Partner , Deloitte Financial Advisory Services LLP of Deloitte
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Wendy Jackson
Partner of Deloitte
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Barrett Daniels
Partner, US IPO Services Co-Leader and West Region SPAC Leader of Deloitte
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Todd Beilis
Principal / Partner of Deloitte
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John England
Partner of Deloitte
John England is a senior oil and gas partner leading Deloitte’s relationships with some of its largest energy clients globally. He previously served as the U.S. Oil & Gas leader for Deloitte LLP across all businesses, including consulting, risk and financial advisory, audit, and tax services. He has led successful projects at some of the largest energy companies over his 29-year career. John serves on the National Petroleum Council as well as on the Board of Directors for the Southeast Texas chapter of the Alzheimer’s Association and Northland Christian School.
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George Simeone
Senior Client Service Partner of Deloitte
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Jannie Herchuk
Partner of Deloitte
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Lilya Tessler
Partner, NY head of FinTech and Blockchain Group of Sidley Austin
Lilya Tessler focuses her practice on regulatory, general corporate and business issues related to US and non-US broker-dealers, financial services firms, blockchain projects, cryptocurrency funds and financial technology companies. Lilya advises broker-dealers and technology companies throughout the start-up phase. She also counsels financial institutions with day-to- day securities issues, private placement agent requirements, custody rule requirements, cross-border regulatory issues, policies and procedures for implementation, FINRA and SEC regulatory inquiries, as well as mergers and acquisitions, and other corporate matters. She also advises several US and non-US FinTech companies, including robo-advisors and high-frequency trading firms in evaluating the broker-dealer and investment advisor registration requirements. Lilya is a certified public accountant, FINRA dispute resolution arbitrator, and holds FINRA Series 7 and 24 licenses.
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Mehdi Khodadad
Partner of Sidley Austin
MEHDI KHODADAD’s practice focuses on representing leading technology and life sciences companies and their private equity and other investment sponsors. He counsels corporate clients, entrepreneurs and investors on a wide variety of transactions, including private and public financings, corporate restructurings, mergers and acquisitions, leveraged buy-outs and related private equity transactions, cross-border and other structured corporate transactions. Mehdi also regularly advises the boards of directors, management and special committees of corporate clients and their investors on a wide variety of securities law and corporate governance matters. Mehdi was recognized by the American Lawyer as a “Dealmaker of the Year” in 2015 for his work on one of the 20 most significant transactions that year. In 2015 he was also named one of the Daily Journal’s “Top 20 Lawyers Under 40.” Mehdi earned a J.D. from the Santa Clara University School of Law, where he was awarded the High Tech Law Certificate in intellectual property law and served as the Editor-in-Chief of the Santa Clara Computer & High Technology Law Journal. He received a B.A. in Economics from the University of California at Berkeley.
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Tony Feuerstein
Partner, M&A of Sidley Austin
Mr. Feuerstein provides clients with general corporate and securities law advice. In addition, he has served as corporate counsel in bankruptcy and workout transactions and restructurings, including representing official and informal creditors committees, out-of-court restructurings and exchange offers, and sale transactions of distressed companies in chapter 11 proceedings. Mr. Feuerstein joined Akin Gump in 2008. He previously was an associate at a major New York based global corporate law firm. Prior to law school, Mr. Feuerstein worked for two years as an economist at the U.S. Department of the Treasury.
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Vijay Sekhon
Partner of Sidley Austin
VIJAY SEKHON is a partner in Sidley’s Century City office and a member of the M&A, Private Equity and Securities practice groups. His practice focuses on mergers, purchases, sales and reorganizations of public and private companies, public equity offerings, public debt issuances, private placements of debt, and equity for public and private companies, and general corporate and securities law. His client list includes: Franklin Templeton Investments, The Blackstone Group, L.P., Cerberus Capital Management, L.P., Levine Leichtman Capital Partners Inc., Fast Retailing Co., Ltd., Universal Studios Japan, Domino Printing Sciences plc, Z Capital Partners, L.L.C., Siris Capital Group, LLC, Glendon Capital Management LP, Castle Creek Capital LLC, ZelnickMedia Corp., HoldCo Asset Management LP and Paladin Healthcare Capital LLC. Vijay served as senior counsel in the Office of the General Counsel of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission from 2009 to 2011, and is an adjunct professor at the University of Southern California Gould School of Law. He was a judicial intern for former Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist in the United States Supreme Court and the Honorable Ellen Segal Huvelle in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia. Vijay has published numerous articles related to law, business and finance in respected academic and practitioner journals, including the Stanford Journal of Law, Business & Finance, the Berkeley Business Law Journal, the Securities Regulation Law Journal, the Real Estate Finance Journal, and Pratt’s Journal of Bankruptcy Law, and has been recognized as a “Rising Star” by Super Lawyers Magazine each year since 2013. Vijay earned his J.D. from Stanford Law School, and received his B.A., summa cum laude, from the University of California at Berkeley. Vijay is also a licensed real estate broker in the state of California and a member of the Financial Lawyers Conference.
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Geoffrey Levin
Partner of Sidley Austin
GEOFF LEVIN concentrates his practice on complex business transactions and governance matters for private equity sponsors and their portfolio companies. His representations span a variety of industries, situations and enterprise values, having counseled clients on domestic and international mergers, acquisitions, leveraged buyouts, going private transactions, proxy contests, spin-offs, joint ventures, recapitalizations, venture capital financing, growth equity investments, senior and junior debt financings, restructurings and workouts. Geoff’s representations have covered a broad range of industries including life sciences, financial services, communications, energy, retail, automotive and heavy industrial. Geoff regularly comments on developments in the healthcare industry and speaks at investment conferences. He is the author of “New M&A Concerns and Strategies” that recently appeared in Aspatore Books Inside the Mind series. He is listed by IFLR 1000 as a leading M&A lawyer and has been recognized by Institutional Investor News as one of the “10 Rising Stars of Private Equity and M&A Law” and by Mergermarket as a 2009 “Dealmaker of the Year.” Prior to joining Sidley, Geoff was a partner at another global law firm. Geoff received his J.D., magna cum laude and Order of the Coif, from the University of Minnesota, where he was executive editor of the Journal of International Economic Law & Policy, and a B.B.A., with high distinction, from the University of Michigan. He is admitted to practice in the State of New York.
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Alan Raul
Founder & Partner of Sidley Austin
Alan Raul is the leader and founder of Sidley’s highly-ranked Privacy, Data Security and Information Law practice. He represents companies on federal, state and international privacy and technology matters, including global data protection and compliance programs, cybersecurity, Big Data, online consumer protection issues and Internet law. Raul’s practice involves litigation and counseling regarding consumer class actions, FTC, state attorney general, Department of Justice and other government investigations, enforcement actions and regulation. He previously served as Vice Chairman of the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board, General Counsel of the Office of Management and Budget, and of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, and in the White House as Associate Counsel to the President.
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David Denechaud
Partner of Sidley Austin
DAVID DENECHAUD focuses his practice on private equity and oil and gas transactions, and represents a wide range of clients in the oil and gas industry, including those in the exploration and production, midstream, oilfield services and alternative energy sectors. He frequently helps private equity sponsors and related portfolio companies to partner with other capital sources and to buy and sell companies. He also works with management teams and operating companies seeking to obtain private equity capital. David’s broad transactional practice involves the representation of private and public companies in financial and strategic acquisitions and dispositions, financings, contests for corporate control and securities issues. He has extensive experience with leveraged and management buy-outs, recapitalizations, public and private securities offerings and financing transactions.
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James Cahan
Partner of Sidley Austin
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Robert Carlson
Partner of Sidley Austin
Robert Carlson is a partner in Sidley’s Palo Alto office where he focuses his practice on mergers and acquisitions, public and private securities offerings, joint ventures and other strategic transactions, representing corporations as well as private equity and venture capital funds. Rob’s practice also includes representation of private equity fund sponsors and investors in connection with the formation and operation of private equity funds, and representation of issuers and underwriters in public offerings and private placements of debt and equity securities. He also counsels boards of directors and committees on corporate governance matters. His industry focus includes working with companies and investors in the medical device, biotechnology, software, e-commerce, payments, telecommunications and gaming industries. Rob has been featured in Best Lawyers in America for Corporate Law (2016), Northern California Super Lawyer (2016) and in Who’s Who Legal for Mergers and Acquisitions (2016). He earned his J.D., cum laude, from Harvard Law School and his B.A., magna cum laude, from the University of California, Berkeley.
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Adam Weinstein
Partner, M&A of Sidley Austin
ADAM WEINSTEIN represents large-cap and middle-market private equity funds and their portfolio companies in leveraged acquisitions, mergers, strategic investments, growth financings and similar transactions. For the last 20-plus years, Adam has served as a trusted adviser to a mega-cap private equity fund and its affiliates and portfolio companies in many of its complex, global leveraged buyout/carve-out transactions and public company acquisitions. Adam is also actively involved in advising private equity investors in the management of their portfolio companies, including: liquidity events, including private sales and public offerings, add-on acquisitions and investments, divestitures, strategic joint ventures and alliances liquidity rights, including drag-along rights, forced sale arrangements, tag-along rights, put and call rights, rights of first refusal and rights of first offer corporate governance rights, including board election rights, board and board committee composition and board and shareholder voting rights, including minority and other shareholder protections day-to-day executive compensation, labor and employment, environmental, tax, intellectual property and litigation matters Adam is recommended in The Legal 500 U.S. 2017–2018 for M&A: Middle-Market
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CARTER G. PHILLIPS
Partner of Sidley Austin
CARTER G. PHILLIPS is the chair of the firm’s Executive Committee and was the managing partner of its Washington, D.C. office from 1995 to 2012. He served as a law clerk to both Judge Robert Sprecher on the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit and Chief Justice Warren E. Burger on the United States Supreme Court. Carter also served as Assistant to the Solicitor General and argued nine cases on behalf of the federal government in the United States Supreme Court. Since joining Sidley, he has argued 71 cases in the Supreme Court. His total of 80 arguments before that Court are the most of any lawyer currently in private practice. Carter also has argued more than 100 cases in United States courts of appeals, including at least one in every Circuit in the country, and more than 25 in the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.
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Jared Jensen
Partner of Sidley Austin
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Mark Kaufmann
Partner, Tech and IP Transactions Practice of Sidley Austin
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John Butler
Partner of Sidley Austin
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Joe Flack III
Partner of Sidley Austin
JOE FLACK focuses his practice on oil and gas transactions. His substantial upstream representations include sellers and buyers in acquisitions and divestitures, borrowers and lenders in reserve-based lending transactions, and grantors and grantees in conveyancing transactions. He also has lead various diligence examinations with regards to property and title issues. In addition, Joe has represented multiple different parties in midstream matters, including gatherers and producers/shippers in gathering agreements, and processors and producers in processing agreements.
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David Hoffman
Partner & Global Co-Head of White Collar Litigation and Investigations Practice of Sidley Austin
David Hoffman is Board of Director at Better Government Association.
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Pam Martinson
Partner of Sidley Austin
Pam Martinson is Partner @ Sidley Austin LLP.
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David Hoffman
Partner & Global Co-Head of White Collar Litigation and Investigations Practice of Sidley Austin
David Hoffman is Board of Director at Better Government Association.
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Pete Maulik is Managing Partner and Chief Growth Officer at Fahrenheit 212, where he is responsible for driving growth of the firm through strategic planning, establishing client relationships, cultivating business development and forging strategic partnerships. With over 20 years spent working with Fortune 500 companies and private equity firms on a wide range of growth projects, Pete knows what it takes to create real innovation for companies and drive change in the marketplace. In 2005, Pete helped launch Fahrenheit 212, the first privately-held innovation consultancy built on a performance-based compensation model. Since then, he has helped the firm execute more than 200 projects spanning industry sectors and develop a host of innovations that are in various stages of commercialization. He has held several key roles as part of the senior management team during his tenure at the firm. Most recently, he served as Chief Strategy Officer where he led the development of all innovation strategies and managed the firm’s implementation efforts. Pete is committed to driving innovation across the corporate landscape and is a well-respected thought leader. He is a frequent keynote speaker on innovation, recently speaking at conferences including the Chief Innovation Officer’s Summit, American Express Luxury Conference, and Ivy League MBA Innovation Summit. He is also active lecturer at business schools ranging from Harvard, Columbia, Stanford, and Wharton as well as within the investment community. His thought leadership and work have been featured in publications including the Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, Harvard Business Review, Fast Company, Private Equity International, and Inc. Pete holds an undergraduate degree with honors from Harvard University, where he was a John Harvard Scholar and an MBA from Columbia Business School. He sits on the Board of Columbia Business School’s Eugene Lang Center Of Entrepreneurship and is an active investor with various private equity-backed companies. He resides in New York City with his wife and two daughters and spends his time regaling them with stories of his ever-improving glory days as a college football player.
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Managing Partner of Inflection 360
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Managing Partner of Dragonfly Partners
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Sree Ramaswamy is a Partner at the McKinsey Global Institute (MGI), McKinsey’s business and economics research arm. He leads research on the economics of digitization and the economics of multinational corporations. He is responsible for shaping MGI’s research initiatives, leading research on trends in competition, technology, and global forces influencing multinationals. Sree is also a co-leader of MGI’s research on North America, and has authored reports and articles on the ongoing digital transformation of the US economy, on new investment opportunities, on opportunities and challenges for the NAFTA region, and the role of US multinational firms in the global economy. Sree is a frequent speaker at conferences, policymaker, business, and media roundtables, and media briefings on topics related to his core research and to MGI’s broader themes around global forces, technology, trade and investment, and the global and US economic outlook. His research is frequently cited in the Economist, Financial Times, Harvard Business Review, and Wall Street Journal among other publications. Prior to joining McKinsey, Sree spent a decade in the US telecom and aerospace sector. He worked in regulatory affairs and engineering research for broadband satellite networks and holds three patents. He has an MBA and Master’s and Bachelor’s degrees in engineering and telecommunications. Sree is based in Washington, DC.
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Hsiao-Lu received her PhD in Chemistry from Stanford University, where she applied single-molecule super-resolution cellular imaging to study live mammalian and bacterial cells in Nobel Laureate W.E. Moerner’s group. Her work imaging dynamic ion channel distribution on live neuronal cells was recognized by the PicoQuant Young Investigator award. Her work resolving mammalian cytoskeleton in 3D made the cover of Applied Physics Letters. As a postdoctoral fellow in Stem Cell Biology & Regenerative Medicine at the Stanford Medical School, Hsiao-Lu modeled Parkinson’s disease using human stem cells and stem cell-derived neurons. A passionate entrepreneur as well as scientist, Hsiao-Lu is a graduate of the Stanford Business School Ignite program and has been involved in several successful startups, both venture-backed and privately-funded, in roles ranging from co-founder to key executive of the leadership team. She is currently a consultant at McKinsey & company.
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With over two decades of business and high-tech experience, Naufal Khan is driven by a desire to help companies leapfrog to digital leaders. He has made a career of working with retail, public sector, and transportation clients to unlock digital capabilities—leading to new services, products, operating models, and customer-facing campaigns. A global leader of McKinsey’s digital organization and IT strategy and organization segments, Mr. Khan works closely with C-level executives and management teams, counseling them on strategic and operational issues critical for business success. He provides strategic vision and hands-on expertise in driving and accelerating end-to- end digital transformations by thinking innovatively about digital strategy, business-IT collaboration, and overall technology organization, delivery, operations, and management.
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Lenny Mendonca is the Chief Economic and Business Advisor to Governor Gavin Newsom of California. He is a Senior Partner Emeritus of McKinsey & Company and a Lecturer on Inequality at the Stanford Business School. He founded McKinsey’s U.S. state and local public sector consulting practice. He also oversaw their knowledge development, Chairing the McKinsey Global Institute and the Firm’s communications, including the McKinsey Quarterly. He served for a decade on the McKinsey Shareholder Council (its Board of Directors). He retired in from McKinsey in 2014. He was formerly the Chair of New America and Children Now, co-Chair of California Forward, and co-founder and Chair of Fusecorps. He was the Vice-Chair of Common Cause. He is the Chair Emeritus of the Bay Area Council and their Economic Institute, and was vice-chair of the Stanford GSB Advisory Council. He was a trustee at the Committee for Economic Development. He served on the boards of Fidelity Charitable, Western Governors University, UC Merced, The Educational Results Partnership, The College Futures Foundation, California Competes, The Opportunity Institute, Commonwealth Club, National Association of NonPartisan Reformers, and The Guardian.org. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the Board of Trustees for Junior Statesmen of America, and the Advisory Boards of Y Analytics, QB3, the Haas Center at Stanford, Third Sector Capital, The CA Community College Chancellor’s Office, and the Public Policy Institute of California. He received his MBA and certificate in public management from Stanford. He holds an AB, magna cum laude, in economics from Harvard. He lives on the Half Moon Bay coast with his wife, Christine. They raised their two daughters, Allie and Rebecca, there and are the founders and owners of the Half Moon Bay Brewing Company, The Inn at Mavericks and the Pacific Standard Taproom. He is also Chair and primary owner of the Coastside News Group (Half Moon Bay Review).
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Mehdi Miremadi is a partner at McKinsey & Company, where he serves technology, materials, and financial clients on a variety of strategy, artificial intelligence, and automation projects. A leader in automation, artificial intelligence, and machine learning, Mehdi co-leads McKinsey’s research on the impact of automation and artificial intelligence on the future of work as well as artificial intelligence potentials and limitations; he also co-leads McKinsey Digital Capability Center (DCC) in Chicago, intended as a hub to showcase best practices in digital and automation and cutting-edge technologies. His articles have appeared in Fortune, Harvard Business Review, and McKinsey Quarterly, among others.
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Brian leads the Marketing & Sales Practice on the West Coast and co-leads the Consumer Digital Excellence group. Brian has worked with multichannel retailers, consumer brands and online e-commerce players across categories such as fashion, electronics, apparel, footwear, financial services and grocery. He has deep experience in unearthing consumer insights, connecting these insights to an organization’s strategy, and operationalizing them quickly. Most recently Brian has helped his clients develop next generation CRM capabilities, build e-commerce and digital marketing strategies, and design 21st century marketing organizations. He has served clients in the United States, China, and Europe—and has worked across the consumer/retail value chain.
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Expert Partner of McKinsey & Company
Jenny collaborates with leading healthcare institutions to address a range of business challenges, from implementing retail-oriented strategies that engage consumers and increase revenue to leading performance and cultural transformations. Her specific area of expertise is helping clients use consumer insights better, thereby increasing their ability to attract and retain key customer segments as well as improve returns on sales and marketing investments. In the a post-reform environment, Jenny’s work with insurers focuses on assisting their transition to helping them take a more consumer-oriented environments business approach. For example, a recent client project for a national health insurer sought to better align operational delivery to consumer priorities and needs, which resulted in improved total overall efficiency and better stakeholder outcomes. She has recently managed many other performance transformation efforts, including a multi-year cost-containment initiative, an effort to implement lean operations, and an organizational transformation project to embed a performance culture and improve sustainability.
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Virginia Simmons
Senior Partner of McKinsey & Company
Virginia is the Managing Partner of McKinsey’s Midwest Office, which includes the Chicago, Cleveland, Denver, Detroit, Minneapolis and Pittsburgh locations Since joining McKinsey’s London Office in 1997 Virginia has worked primarily in the Retail and Technology sectors. She has worked extensively in Europe, Asia and moved to North America in 2006. Her work covers the full spectrum of issues facing companies including corporate strategy, finance, marketing, sales and operations. Recent areas of focus and innovation include digital, ecommerce and the application of big data in retailers’ marketing and merchandising arenas and in this capacity she serves on McKinsey’s Global Advanced Analytics Operating Committee and serves on the board of Periscope, McKinsey’s Solutions provider Virginia is a member of McKinsey’s Senior Partner Election Committee which is the global committee responsible for the evaluation and election of Senior Partners. Prior to joining McKinsey, Virginia worked as a Brand Manager at PepsiCo’s and as a Marketing Manager at Shell. Virginia holds a Bachelors in Natural Sciences and a Masters in Engineering from Cambridge University, England and was included on the university honors list. Virginia serves on several not-for-profit boards including Lurie Children’s Hospital, the Chicago Museum of Science and Industry and the Civic Committee of the Chicago Commercial Club.
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Michael Chui is a San Francisco-based partner in the McKinsey Global Institute, where he directs research on the impact of disruptive technologies, such as big data, social media, and the internet of things, on business and the economy. Previously, as a McKinsey consultant, Michael served clients in the high-tech, media, and telecom industries on multiple topics. Prior to joining McKinsey, he was the first chief information officer of the City of Bloomington, Indiana, and was the founder and executive director of HoosierNet, a regional internet service provider. Michael is a frequent speaker at major global conferences and his research has been cited in leading publications around the world. He holds a BS in symbolic systems from Stanford University and a PhD in computer science and cognitive science and an MS in computer science, both from Indiana University.
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Dr. Jaana Remes is an economist and a partner at the McKinsey Global Institute (MGI), McKinsey & Company’s business and economics research arm, based in San Francisco. Since 2003, Jaana has led MGI’s research on urbanization, productivity, competitiveness, and growth. Her latest research maps the deployment of smart city solutions and sizes the potential benefits to urban citizens’ health, safety, commute times, and other factors impacting quality of life. Jaana leads MGI’s Urban World research series that includes mapping of economic power of cities, identifying global consumer groups shaping global demand, and mapping of the global company landscape; as well as the patterns of urban growth across the Americas. Her long term research interests also include productivity prospects in the digital age, global growth prospects in an era of demographic decline, analyses of how different policies have contributed to industry competitiveness and growth; as well as in-depth assessments of the barriers to competitiveness and growth across a range of economies, including the US, Mexico, Brazil, Canada, UK, Finland, Sweden, and South Korea. She has led MGI’s research on energy, with a focus on understanding the microeconomic underpinnings of global energy demand and the opportunity to reduce energy consumption through higher energy productivity. She advises global business and government leaders on related topics and frequently contributes to policy debates through articles and conference presentations. Jaana has a Ph.D. on applied economies from Stanford University and an MSc degree in economics and philosophy from the University of Helsinki, Finland. She is a nonresident senior fellow at the Strategic Foresight Initiative of the Atlantic Council. She also serves on the Board of directors of Girl Scouts Heart of Central California.
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Marie-Claude is a Partner in the San Francisco office of McKinsey & Company. She leads McKinsey’s Digital Payments service line for North America.
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Olivia is a Partner in the San Francisco office of McKinsey & Company and a core member of the Firm Financial Services and Risk Management practices. She has worked extensively on financial inclusion topics in emerging markets as well as with a broad range of financial institutions in the US and Europe. She is co-leader of McKinsey Financial Inclusion Practice, and has experience working on financial exclusion topics in a range of countries including Uganda, Kenya, Ethiopia, India, Pakistan, China and Nigeria. She is an author of the recent McKinsey Global Institute publication, Digital Finance for All: Powering Inclusive Growth in Emerging Economies. She is a member of the Executive Committee of the Better Than Cash Alliance and on the Advisory Committee for the ProInspire Fellowship in Digital Finance. Olivia is also a leader in McKinsey risk practice, where she is a leader in our work on risk and financial technologies leads our service line in Enterprise Risk Management in North America. Olivia client work includes customer experience transformations in retail and small business financial services, strategy and diligence work for investors in digital financial services, and examination of sales practices in retail banking. She has also contributed to major research efforts looking at both the economics and risks associated with digital payments in emerging markets. These include an empirical analysis of the economics of mobile money in East Africa, an examination of the economics of payment systems around the world to understand implications and opportunities for financial inclusion, and an investigation into the risk associated with digitally-enabled payments in the developing world.
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Tanguy Catlin is a Senior Partner in McKinsey’s Boston office in the Financial Services and Marketing & Sales Practices, where he leads McKinsey’s North American P&C practice and works with global leading institutions to meet the challenges of this changing industry. In this capacity, he has been driving the development of McKinsey’s capabilities to develop multichannel strategies, execute digitally enabled business model transformations, and drive large scale marketing and sales programs at financial services clients.
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