CHICAGO, Jan. 13, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Global management consulting firm A.T. Kearney grew its global partnership by 45 partners in 2013, an unprecedented increase of 12 percent over the last year. The firm elected 29 new partners during the second half of the year, attracting 12 experienced partners to join the firm from other consulting firms or industry and promoting 17 new partners from within the firm. A.T. Kearney now has 314 partners in 58 offices across 40 countries.

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"We've experienced impressive growth since regaining our independence in 2006 and accelerated that path in 2013 with the launch of a new vision set on becoming the most admired global, full-service management consulting firm, doubling in size by 2020," said Johan C. Aurik, managing partner and chairman of the board of A.T. Kearney. "The group of partners we elected in the second half of 2013 moves us further toward achieving that goal and reinforces the distinctive role our culture plays in the way we work with clients and outside groups to co-create solutions that provide impact and advantage. We're proud to welcome these distinguished individuals as partners in A.T. Kearney."

A.T. Kearney has grown its partner ranks and global revenue by more than 50 percent since 2006.

Seventeen of the newly elected partners were principals with A.T. Kearney who were promoted during the firm's year-end partner selection process:


    --  Daniela Chikova. Based in A.T. Kearney's Vienna office, Chikova joined
        the firm in 2001 and is part of the Financial Services Practice. She has
        extensive experience in retail banking, particularly in the areas of
        sales effectiveness and distribution, and has worked with financial
        institutions throughout Europe and the United States.
    --  Ulli Dannath. Dannath joined A.T. Kearney in 2000 and is a Berlin-based
        member of the Communications, Media and Technology Practice. He has
        worked closely with mobile and fixed operators in all regions of the
        world on a broad range of topics, including top-line sales improvement
        transformation and performance improvement programs, as well as M&A and
        due diligence.
    --  Brian Dunn. Dunn spent 1998-2004 with A.T. Kearney and rejoined the firm
        in 2011, based in the Dallas office. He is a member of the Strategic
        Information Technology Practice and primarily focuses on assisting
        organizations with large-scale, technology-enabled transformation. He is
        a recognized expert in program design, business harmonization, and
        large-scale ERP deployment.
    --  Scott Glover. Based in A.T. Kearney's Melbourne office, Glover has
        strong expertise in financial services, particularly in wealth, life
        insurance and the intersection of these with banking. He joined A.T.
        Kearney in 2002, working with local, regional, and global clients on a
        variety of topics including bank assurance, intermediated distribution,
        end-to-end performance improvement (front and back office), customer
        experience transformation and regulatory reform.
    --  Craig D. Kane. Kane joined A.T. Kearney in 2005 and is a member of the
        firm's Strategic Information Technology Practice based in Dallas. He has
        worked closely with companies in the consumer products and health care
        industries on topics including IT strategic alignment, back office
        transformation, broad-based cost management and outsourcing.
    --  Khalid Khan. A member of A.T. Kearney Procurement and Analytic Solutions
        since 2008, Khan is based in Chicago and has proven experience in the
        fast-growing field of business analytics. He has worked with companies
        in industries including consumer and retail, health, and financial
        services. Khan leads A.T. Kearney's Leadership Excellence in Analytic
        Practices (LEAP) study and drives the firm's industry-academic
        collaboration around developing analytically powered organizations.
    --  Tomotsugu Kozaki. Based in the Tokyo, Kozaki joined the firm in 2005 and
        is a member of the Strategic Operations Practice.  His areas of
        specialization include cost reduction, value chain management, capital
        project management, process/organizational transformation, corporate
        portfolio strategy, business unit strategy, and entry strategy for
        pharmaceutical, transportation, infrastructure and consumer goods
        companies.
    --  Gil Krakowsky. Krakowsky joined A.T. Kearney in 2008 and is a member of
        both the Consumer Industries & Retail Practice and the Strategy,
        Marketing and Sales practice. Based in New York, he has experience on a
        broad range of topics including global expansion strategy, innovation,
        marketing and sales strategy, marketing/sales organization design, and
        capability improvement. He is a faculty member of the Path-to-Purchase
        Institute, leading a series of studies and symposia on shopper marketing
        and category management topics.
    --  Anshuman Maheshwary. Based in the Delhi office, Maheshwary joined A.T.
        Kearney in 2001 and is a member of the Energy and Process Industries and
        Utilities practices. He has extensive experience advising clients in the
        oil and gas, chemicals, transportation and travel infrastructure
        segments in India, with particular emphasis on business strategy,
        top-line growth, procurement and supply chain, program management,
        organization transformation, and performance improvement.
    --  Tiago Monteiro. A member of the Communications, Media and Technology
        Practice, Monteiro joined A.T. Kearney in 2003 and worked in the firm's
        London and Lisbon offices before moving to his present Sao Paulo
        location.  His broad international experience in Europe and the Americas
        includes work across numerous sectors including telecommunications,
        infrastructure, transportation, defense, and utilities, and topics
        including corporate strategy, performance improvement, market entry,
        cost-to-serve, restructuring, and M&A due diligence.
    --  Javier Navarro Gonzalez. Navarro Gonzalez joined A.T. Kearney in 1999
        and is a Madrid-based member of the Communications, Media and Technology
        Practice. He has worked in the communications industry across Latin
        America and Europe in areas including sales, distribution, supply chain,
        and top-line growth. He has driven multi-year companywide channel
        transformations and short-term, top-line, high impact initiatives at
        leading operators.
    --  Alyssa Pei. Based in the Chicago office, Pei joined A.T. Kearney in
        2003. She is a member of the Financial Services Practice and works at
        the intersection of retail financial institutions and business
        transformation. She is an expert in large-scale business transformation,
        strategy development, and distributed sales force management.
    --  Adam Pressman. Based in the Chicago office, Pressman is a member of the
        Strategic Information Technology Practice, with a focus on retail and
        health. Since joining A.T. Kearney in 2003 he has become one of the
        firm's foremost experts on contact center & customer care strategy and
        operations, as well as integrated channel engagement. He specializes in
        technology-enabled transformation and shared services.
    --  Andrea Roversi. Based in Milan, Roversi joined A.T. Kearney in 2010 and
        is a member of the Strategic Information Technology Practice. He
        specializes in IT governance and organization and has relevant expertise
        in IT strategies, application architectures, and IT-driven business
        transformation, with a particular emphasis on the utilities sector.
    --  Shigeru Sekinada. A member of both the Consumer Industries and Retail
        and the Strategy, Marketing and Sales practices, Sekinada joined A.T.
        Kearney in 2003 and is based in Tokyo. His areas of focus include
        corporate strategy, business strategy, marketing strategy, new brand
        launch support, pricing strategy, communication design support, digital
        marketing, marketing process innovation, and sales innovation for
        companies in the beverage, cosmetics, training, wholesale and retail
        sectors.
    --  Ramesh Siromani. Based in Toronto, Siromani joined A.T. Kearney in 2004
        and is a member of the firm's Financial Services Practice. He has worked
        with banks, asset management companies, and cards/payments entities in
        the Americas, Europe, and Asia Pacific across a range of topics
        including process and quality improvement, channel strategy, core
        banking renewals and technology alignment, and cards/payments.
    --  Dr. Joachim von Hoyningen-Huene. Von Hoyningen-Huene joined A.T. Kearney
        in 2003 and is a Munich-based member of the Energy and Process
        Industries and Utilities practices. He advises leading chemical
        companies on strategic topics such as corporate and business unit
        strategy, M&A, process, and organizational design.

A.T. Kearney also elected 12 partners who came to the firm from other consulting companies or outside industry during the secondhalf of 2013.


    --  Alex Blanter. A member of the Communications Media and Technology
        Practice, Blanter is based in San Francisco/Silicon Valley and joined
        A.T. Kearney from PwC's PRTM Management Consulting  (PRTM was acquired
        by PwC in 2011). He is known for delivering superior business value to
        clients looking for growth through innovation, increased product
        development productivity, complexity reduction and enablement of product
        lifecycle management through enterprise IT solutions.
    --  Clarence Chen. Also based in San Francisco/Silicon Valley and joining
        from PwC's PRTM Management Consulting, Chen is an accomplished
        operations strategy consultant. He has worked with companies that span
        the technology value chain, leading global supply chain and operations
        transformations to drive improved delivery performance, operational
        flexibility, cost structures, supply base alignment, and organizational
        capacity.
    --  Jungkiu Choi. Based in Singapore, Choi joined A.T. Kearney as head of
        its Financial Services Practice in Asia Pacific. He was previously with
        Standard Charter Bank, where he was chief operating officer of retail
        banking products and segments, group consumer banking. He has more than
        20 years of experience in the banking and financial services sectors
        across Asia and spent 14 years with McKinsey & Co. as a director in the
        Toronto and Seoul offices.
    --  Suketu Gandhi. Based in Chicago, Gandhi joined A.T. Kearney's Strategic
        Information Technology Practice. He was previously with Deloitte
        Consulting where he was national market leader - post digital enterprise
        & IT strategy. He has more than 20 years of experience in information
        technology, retail, restaurants, consumer products, industrial products,
        and health care, focused around business startup and large enterprise
        transformation management, design and management of enterprise IT, and
        IT planning and support across the complete M&A lifecycle.
    --  Christian Hassel. A member of the Transportation, Travel and
        Infrastructure Practice based in Copenhagen, Hassel joined A.T. Kearney
        from a listed shipping company where he was chief financial officer. He
        specializes in corporate and business unit strategy, corporate finance,
        working capital management, organizational transformation and efficiency
        projects.
    --  Mark Holman. Based in San Francisco/Silicon Valley, Holman joined A.T.
        Kearney from PwC's PRTM Management Consulting, where he led PwC's M&A
        Strategy Practice and was one of its leading supply chain strategists in
        the technology sector. He has executed more than 50 M&A transactions in
        30 countries and has significant expertise founding and leading
        technology companies in Silicon Valley.
    --  Simon Kent. Based in London, Kent is a member of the Financial Services
        Practice and joined A.T. Kearney from Navigant Consulting where he led
        the U.K. financial services team. He has worked in the financial
        services sector in the U.K., Africa, and Asia, both as a consultant and
        line manager, and has extensive experience in operational and
        distribution strategy focused in the retail banking sector.
    --  Nicolas Lioliakis. Based in Paris and a member of the Financial Services
        Practice, Lioliakis has more than 20 years of experience in the sector
        as both a consultant and industry executive. He joined A.T. Kearney from
        AlixPartners where he led its European financial services practice. 
        Prior to AlixPartners he was a partner at Bain and led the M&A and
        post-merger integration practices in Europe. Lioliakis' areas of
        expertise include growth strategies, innovation, transformation, and
        turnaround programs, and he has worked with retail and private banks,
        commercial and investment banks, insurers, asset managers and companies
        involved in the industry supporting payments and brokerage activities.
    --  Keith Lostaglio. Based in Singapore and Tokyo, Lostaglio is head of A.T.
        Kearney's Health Practice in Asia Pacific. His areas of expertise
        include pharmaceuticals, medical devices, hospitals, hospital products
        and health services.  Specific areas of focus include research and
        development (organization, process change, innovation); joint ventures,
        alliances and licensing; operational efficiency and marketing. He joins
        from McKinsey & Company where he spent 12 years in the U.S. and Tokyo.
    --  Chris Richard. Based in San Francisco/Silicon Valley, Richard is an
        experienced strategy and operations consultant, most recently withPwC's
        PRTM Management Consulting, where he led the Semiconductor Industry
        Team. His experience includes strategy formulation, customer experience
        delivery, merger and acquisition support, organizational effectiveness,
        and operational transformation.
    --  Andrew Stewart. A member of the Financial Services Practice based in
        London, Stewart joined A.T. Kearney from Navigant Consulting where he
        previously led Navigant's global financial institutions group. He has
        more than 25 years of experience in financial services and founded
        Troika, a consultancy later acquired by Navigant that advised clients on
        distribution and operations challenges across the retail banking,
        insurance and investment management sectors.
    --  Torsten Stocker. A member of the Consumer Industries and Retail
        Practice, Stocker is based in Hong Kong. He has nearly 20 years of
        experience in consulting and industry and focuses on supporting consumer
        goods and retail companies in areas including corporate and portfolio
        strategy, go-to-market strategy, innovation, and organization design. He
        also works with financial and strategic investors on deal sourcing,
        strategic due diligence, and post-investment value. He was previously
        with Monitor Group.

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A.T. Kearney is a global team of forward-thinking partners that delivers immediate impact and growing advantage for its clients. We are passionate problem solvers who excel in collaborating across borders to co-create and realize elegantly simple, practical, and sustainable results. Since 1926, we have been trusted advisors on the most mission-critical issues to the world's leading organizations across all major industries and service sectors. A.T. Kearney has 58 offices located in major business centers across 40 countries.

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