Julio J. Hernandez

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Julio J. Hernandez has over 20 years of management consulting experience focused on strategy formulation; marketing, sales and service strategy and transformation; and enterprise analytics. During his career, Julio has served clients across multiple industries including consumer goods, retail, health care, telecommunications and energy. As the U.S. Customer Advisory leader and Global Customer Center of Excellence lead, Julio focuses on helping clients think about how to engage the marketplace, attract, convert and keep customers to fuel profitable growth. He also works with clients to help them design and deliver relevant customer experience that drive engagement and result in sustainable customer relationships. He helps his clients develop and deliver leading Front Office programs that provide Sales, Service, Marketing capabilities which harness digital and analytics to large, often complex organisations that are increasingly faced with market and technology disruptions. Julio has worked with clients across the globe including North America, Europe and Asia. He has multiple patents and patents pending for both customer experience and analytics. He has also been cited in multiple periodicals including the Financial Times and Forbes. Julio has a BBA from Emory University and an MBA from Harvard Business School.

Firm Overview:

KPMG’s Advisory practice delivers services and creates comprehensive strategies that reflect our deep knowledge of the industries and functional priorities of our clients. With our groups organised by both industry (Financial Services, Government, Health Care & Life Sciences and Products) and service (Management Consulting, Risk Consulting, Deal Advisory and Strategy) we facilitate collaboration across the entire firm. This enables us to meet our clients’ unique needs and help them gain a competitive advantage—from revised strategies and reconsidered business models, to new products and expanded markets.

In addition to our services, we provide objective, relevant and actionable insights that can help you identify, evaluate, and successfully implement growth strategies in today’s rapidly changing markets.

Whether you are interested in working with us—or for us—we welcome you to explore what KPMG Advisory has to offer.

Dominic Barton

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Dominic Barton is the global managing partner of McKinsey. He is based in London and leads the firm’s focus on the future of capitalism and the role business leadership can play in creating long-term social and economic value. Before becoming managing partner, Dominic served as McKinsey’s chairman in Asia from 2004 to 2009. He also headed McKinsey’s office in Korea from 2000 to 2004.

He is the chair of the Canadian Minister of Finance’s Advisory Council on Economic Growth, the chair of the Seoul International Business Advisory Council, and a cochair of the Focusing Capital on the Long Term initiative. He is also a trustee of the Brookings Institution, a Rhodes trustee, and an adjunct professor at Tsinghua University in Beijing.

Dominic has authored more than 80 articles and is a coauthor, with Roberto Newell and Greg Wilson, of Dangerous Markets: Managing in Financial Crises (Wiley & Sons, 2002) and of China Vignettes: An Inside Look at China (Talisman, 2007).

He graduated from the University of British Columbia with a BA Honors in economics and studied as a Rhodes Scholar at Brasenose College, Oxford University.

McKinsey & Company:

McKinsey & Company is a global management consulting firm that serves leading businesses, governments, non-governmental organizations, and not-for-profits. We help our clients make lasting improvements to their performance and realize their most important goals. Over nearly a century, we’ve built a firm uniquely equipped to this task.

Georges Desvaux

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Based in Johannesburg, Georges Desvaux is the McKinsey managing partner for Africa. From 2011 to 2015, he was the managing partner of Japan. He also worked in Beijing from 1999 to 2006, and Paris from 2006 to 2011. Georges is also a member of McKinsey’s Shareholders’ Council, the firm’s governing body.

In Japan, Georges supported retailers, financial institutions and technology companies on international growth, post-merger integration, marketing capabilities, customer satisfaction, lean operations, and organizational design.

He contributed regularly to forums and conferences focused on Japan’s prospects. With the McKinsey Global Institute, he recently authored perspectives on Japan’s long-term economic potential in “The Future of Japan: Reigniting Growth and Productivity” (March 2015.)

In Europe, Georges advised top management in insurance, banking and technology companies on growth and marketing, and in China, state-owned enterprises in market-oriented reforms and international IPOs.

Georges is a leader of our Marketing Practice and has authored articles and research on consumer and macroeconomic trends as well as building our Consumer Insights and Analytics capabilities.

Georges devotes much of his time and energy to developing McKinsey’s global talent and has initiated and co-led McKinsey’s “Women Matter” research on the role of women in corporations since 2007.

He joined McKinsey in 1988, after four years in sales at an industrial manufacturer.

Firm Overview:

McKinsey & Company is a global management consulting firm that serves leading businesses, governments, non-governmental organizations, and not-for-profits. We help our clients make lasting improvements to their performance and realize their most important goals. Over nearly a century, we’ve built a firm uniquely equipped to this task.

Rogerio Mascarenhas

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Rogerio Mascarenhas is the managing partner in McKinsey’s Lagos office. For over 15 years, Rogerio has been advising senior clients from the private and public sectors across Africa, Latin America, and the United States.

Before leading McKinsey’s practice in Nigeria, Rogerio lead the firm’s Corporate Banking and Risk Management Practices in Latin America. His areas of expertise includes banking, risk management, and fiscal reforms in emerging markets.

Prior to joining McKinsey, he was both a fixed-income and foreign-exchange trader at Ambev in Brazil.

Firm Overview:

McKinsey & Company is a global management consulting firm that serves leading businesses, governments, non-governmental organizations, and not-for-profits. We help our clients make lasting improvements to their performance and realize their most important goals. Over nearly a century, we’ve built a firm uniquely equipped to this task.

John Lydon

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John Lydon is our exclusively recommended Management Consulting Services expert in Australia on the Advisory Excellence website. If you need assistance in this area, please contact John directly using the contact details above.

John works as a client counsellor, helping the leaders of large, complex organisations understand, embrace, capture, and sustain the value potential in their businesses. This includes improving the results of successful companies by building on their strengths, rapidly turning around less well-performing organisations, and improving the outcomes of investments and capital projects. During his career, John has led several large-scale transformation programs across multiple industries, such as banking, telecom, and industrial companies in Australia; resources companies around the globe; and building lean-manufacturing capability in one of China’s largest state-owned enterprises.

Through both his leadership of McKinsey Australia and New Zealand and his personal client service, John has been instrumental in changing the way we serve clients. Innovations such McKinsey Implementation, Recovery and Transformation Services, and Digital and Analytics now represent more than half of our work in Australia and New Zealand.

John also has led our Operations Practice and is currently a member of McKinsey’s Asia Leadership Team and our global senior partners’ committee.

Among his external appointments, John is a member of the University of Technology Sydney’s Vice Chancellor’s Advisory Board, a representative on several Business Council of Australia committees, and part of the founding group of Male Champions of Change.

Omar El Hamamsy

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Omar El Hamamsy is our exclusively recommended Management Consulting Services expert in Egypt on the Advisory Excellence website. If you need assistance in this area, please contact Omar directly using the contact details above.

Omar El Hamamsy serves leading organisations across many sectors, in the Middle East and Europe, on topics spanning strategy, marketing and sales, operations, and finance. Omar leads New Ventures for EMEA and coleads the New Ventures Competition, our ongoing internal “crowdsourcing” event for new services and solutions. Omar was previously based in our Belgian office.

His recent client work includes developing an investment strategy for a Middle Eastern country, focused on its short- and long-term development goals. He also helped shape a multi-year strategy for a Middle Eastern sovereign wealth fund, focused on achieving outstanding financial and social impact across several industries.

Omar has helped major companies define and execute ambitious growth strategies. He led the development of an international-growth strategy for a large regional company over an 8 year period, and helped oversee its implementation in more than ten countries. He also helped shape a leading global consumer company’s strategy for the Middle East and Africa.

Omar has deep experience in advising companies in the telecom and private equity sectors. For example, he led the design and development of a business-unit strategy for a large private equity firm. He has also conducted due diligence of numerous companies in high-growth markets.

Omar is passionate about improving education and work opportunities for young people. He serves on the regional board of directors of Injaz al-Arab (a member of Junior Achievement Worldwide), a not-for-profit organisation focused on youth education. He has led several projects to accelerate youth development and enhance job creation opportunities.

In his free time, Omar pilots a multi-engine aircraft.

Firm Overview:

McKinsey & Company is a global management consulting firm that serves leading businesses, governments, non-governmental organisations, and not-for-profits. We help our clients make lasting improvements to their performance and realise their most important goals. Over nearly a century, we’ve built a firm uniquely equipped to this task.