Broad Strokes

Veteran Business Consultants Are Taking Their Expertise to Smaller, Nimbler Consultancies

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Wednesday, May 17, 2023

McIntosh recently built and led a highly successful management consulting team at Avanade, a joint venture between Accenture and Microsoft, where he served as the North American Digital Enterprise Advisory Leader.

Key Points: 
  • McIntosh recently built and led a highly successful management consulting team at Avanade, a joint venture between Accenture and Microsoft, where he served as the North American Digital Enterprise Advisory Leader.
  • Before Avanade he spent years developing his industry knowledge and leadership skills at Slalom Consulting and Hitachi Consulting.
  • While BlastX Consulting will certainly benefit from the skill set and expertise McIntosh has gathered at those firms, McIntosh said of those larger settings, “I found the layers of bureaucracy frustrating.
  • Before McIntosh came onboard, CEO Kayden Kelly hired consulting veteran Mike Savage, formerly with Deloitte Digital and Merkle, as BlastX Consulting’s Chief Growth Officer.