As Senior Managing Director and founding Director, Peter brings more than a decade of experience in consumer products, energy, telecommunications, and technology to Strategos. Peter's education, experience and thought provoking articles coupled with his leadership skills have helped create and build a global organization dedicated to enabling clients to invigorate their approach to markets and set new rules for industry competition.

Currently the Iberian office Managing Director, Pedro has worked extensively in Latin and North America and Europe. He has over 13 years of experience helping clients to architect and deploy industry revolutions that challenge the status quo and create opportunities for growth. Pedro has consulted in a variety of sectors such as chemicals, infrastructure, publishing, automotive, consumer goods and health, working both in the developing innovation systems and executing the launch of rule-breaking ventures. Most of his projects engaged multiple geographies and cultures.

A Chicago based Managing Director, David has worked across multiple industries in the field of corporate strategy and innovation. His success in the client setting on the large transformational scale is grounded in a set of skills that feature process design, enterprise direction, and embedding the capability for innovation at the enterprise level.

A California based Managing Director, Gary blends customer- and technology-based approaches to innovation and growth in working with clients. Gary focuses on helping companies to liberate the value of the strategic assets within their core businesses, as well as to conquer the organizational challenges of managing core and emerging or disruptive businesses simultaneously.

Ian Pallister is a Managing Director of our European practice, based out of Munich, and manages many of our account relationships across the globe. Ian has deep content knowledge within the Innovation, Strategy, Change and Business Transformation areas and brings this range of expertise to help his clients solve their complex challenges. Ian has over 20 years experience across a diverse range of industries such as automotive, banking, energy, food & beverage, media and consumer electronics.

Jim Scholes is a Managing Director of Strategos' European operations, and a founder of Strategos. Based in Strategos' London office, Jim is an expert in the use of systems thinking to bridge the gap between a company's ambitious strategy and its ability to implement it.

A Chicago based Director, George has deep front-line experience in starting and managing new businesses and a firm understanding of innovative and strategic use of technology. He served as a senior executive of a telecom customer care and billing software start-up, and throughout his strategy and technology consulting career, he helped identify, launch, and manage new ventures and services for his clients and consulting firms. George is particularly passionate about the complexity of nurturing start-up organizations within mature companies.

A Chicago based Director, Harry brings over 20 years of "front line", senior management experience from the consumer packaged food industry, and a demonstrated track record of innovating inside of large organizations, producing bottom line profit performance.

Michel, based in Amsterdam, is a Director of Strategos' European practice. He has worked extensively for multinational companies in sectors including FMCG and Chemicals and also as part of a startup in the entertainment sector. His experience includes strategy and business development, managing client relations and leading teams through innovation change programs.

A Chicago based Director with a background in science and corporate strategy, Amy provides unique perspective to the challenge of strategy and innovation. During her tenure at Strategos, Amy has emerged as a thought leader on the topic of innovation and has developed deep capability in the technolgy, consumer goods, and health care industries.

A Chicago based Director, Jorge is both an engineer and systems thinker. His background includes engineering and systems work with General Electric, McDonnell Douglas and NASA. Most recently his efforts have been focused on organizational learning, featuring culture change initiatives inside Fortune 500 companies.

An Iberian based Principal Miguel Duarte has consulting experience in strategic and transformation projects developed at some of the main Iberian multinational companies. From consumer goods to oil & gas, while in Strategos Miguel has worked in several sectors developing projects in three main management disciplines: game changing strategies, business model innovation and development of new growth platforms.

Formerly Miguel worked at the strategy consulting unit of Capgemini where he supported C - level executives from public and private sector in transformation projects. During this period he developed deep knowledge in the infrastructures industry and public sector by his engagement in new management models definition, strategy redefinition and change management initiatives to support strategy execution in these sectors.

Carl is a Principal at Strategos who brings over 25 years of innovation experience. Most recently, Carl was Program Director at SIMI (Scandinavian International Management Institute) where he designed and taught innovation to European executives

Amy is a Principal in the Strategos Chicago office. She brings with her over 18 years as an experienced marketer, with specific expertise in the consumer packaged goods industry. Throughout her career, she has had a passion for innovation and new product development, as well as a love for helping companies create ideas that can translate into revenue generating and industry changing opportunities.

Nate is a Principal in Strategos' Chicago office who brings a passion for enabling innovation through organizational and process transformation. During ten years of experience in new product development, strategic planning, and consulting, he has driven change through both process design and new growth initiatives.

A Chicago based Principal, Chris has over 17 years of consulting, strategy development, and project management experience for large multinational companies. He combines a background in science and technology with experience in a wide variety of business and management disciplines to help enterprises develop and implement innovative strategies.

Alex Lattin is a Principal in Strategos' Chicago practice whose recent focus has been the information industry. He brings extensive experience developing new growth opportunities through innovative programs, leading internal change, and implementing cross-organizational integration. He brings front-line experience in creating, developing, and managing new business within existing companies.

Tanvir Mangat is a Principal at Strategos' Chicago office. Tanvir has more than thirteen years of experience helping companies with strategic issues and applying his knowledge across multiple functions in order to enable clients to create growth opportunities, drive operating performance, and improve innovation capabilities. Tanvir has helped organizations in several sectors including consumer products, high tech, professional services, health care, government, industrial, and energy.

Naveed Moosa is a principal in Strategos' Chicago office with over eighteen years of experience in innovation within large multi-national enterprises. Naveed also drives the design and development of our proprietary tools such as DiscoverySpacesm, a software platform to engage the collective imagination organizations in strategic innovation.

A Principal in Strategos' Iberian office, Álvaro Nogueiras has over ten years of experience in management and technology consulting. Álvaro has been driving projects that help clients build sustainable grow capability by addressing strategic, organizational and cultural changes, alongside the development and facilitation of strategic programs based on visionary thinking and scenario planning. He has experience working in a range of sectors, namely financial services, logistics, healthcare, telecommunications and technology, in Portugal, Spain and Angola.

A Principal in Strategos' Iberian office, Miguel has over ten years of professional experience. With a background in consultancy and also in the front line of different industries, Miguel has been an important player within the organisations he worked for, where he played a part in a broad range of projects from setting high-level strategic direction and conducting enterprise-wide reorganizations to redesigning core processes. Over the years, Miguel has worked in Portugal and Spain.

Bud is a Principal with over 30 years experience helping organizations change to meet the demands of the market. His expertise is in working with executives and cross-functional teams to identify and implement new business strategies.
Bud consults in all major business sectors with an emphasis on: technology, financial services, energy, health care and manufacturing. He has worked in every region of the world with marquee clients such as: Sony Electronics, Dell, Microsoft Europe, Toyota, Whirlpool Corporation, and the Overseas Chinese Banking Corporation.

A Principal in Strategos' Iberian office, Alex has over nine years of experience and achievements within the directories industry. Alex has been a driver in the organisations he has worked, leading product development, strategic planning, internal change and international expansion projects. Over the years, Alex has worked in multiple geographies where he has developed important business cultural knowledge.

Dave is a Chicago based Associate with a passion for initiating innovation and change in organizations that are looking for something "a little different". Throughout his six years of experience in consulting, strategy, and product development; Dave has worked on a variety of projects across a number of industries ranging from actuarial underwriting to employee behavior change strategy. He has been a motivator for change in both the HR benefits world as well as the health care industry.

Vicente Pegado is an Iberian based Associate with four years of strategic consulting experience delivered for a range of industries globally. Prior to joining Strategos, he was a Senior Business Analyst at A.T. Kearney, where he was engaged in numerous strategic planning and organizational restructuring projects in Portugal, Spain, Argentina and South Africa. Vicente's consulting experience spans several industries, including Construction, Oil & Gas, Pulp & Paper, Utilities, Transportation and Telecommunications. Vicente's career was born in innovation, where he was a member of the Innovation Team at SAG during a Strategos strategic innovation engagement. During the project, Vicente was heavily involved in identifying and developing two new and promising businesses that are set to revolutionize the Portuguese automobile market.

Susan Goode is a Network Partner with Strategos and has over twenty years experience driving consumer focused growth through the development and implementation of new business opportunities. Prior to her work with Strategos, Susan held strategy and innovation leadership roles with Best Buy where she was responsible for stimulating the thinking about alternative futures and building strategy and innovation capabilities. Susan has hands-on experience developing a variety of new businesses and was a member of Best Buy's executive management team for eq-life, a health, wellness and technology store.

Pierre Loewe is a Network Director and one of Strategos' founders. He has worked as an advisor and consultant to senior management for more than twenty years, as a marketing executive for six years, and has taught executive programs for two years. Pierre's primary focus at Strategos has been on guiding client teams charged with identifying new opportunities and developing breakthrough strategies for their companies. He has led such teams in multiple industries, including semi-conductor manufacturing, software, retailing, consumer goods, health care, energy, professional services, and industrial components.

Cate Newnes-Smith is a London based network partner with fifteen years' experience in industry and consulting. Cate spent eight years' at Reuters, the global business information company, managing the delivery of mission critical systems to global banks. For the past five years, Cate has focused on turning strategic intent into action through re-energising and engaging staff throughout the organisation. While she started out in the IT and media industry, the principles that she uses apply to all businesses and she now has extensive experience in a wide range of industries, from telecommunications to marketing, from food processing to not for profit. She has a degree in Electronic Engineering from Imperial College and an MBA from Cranfield University.

Toby is a Network Partner with Strategos who has experience teaching and applying in practice the principles of growth, innovation and business creativity. He has worked with businesses ranging from early stage startups to Fortune 500 companies across multiple sectors including manufacturing, healthcare, med device, financial services, new media, retail, consulting, clean tech & non-profit.

Patiwat Panurach is a Network Associate at Strategos. He brings extensive functional experience in new product development, innovation portfolio management, organization design, and change management. Patiwat has significant strategy consulting experience in the telecommunications, energy, consumer goods, and healthcare industries. He is particularly passionate about shaping emerging technologies to bring innovative products to market.

Lindsey Pitt is a London-based Network Partner with over ten years of experience in industry and consulting. After a successful career at McKinsey, Lindsey assisted with the scaling of a start-up software venture. With Strategos since 2001, Lindsey's principal focus has been on helping executive teams bring "innovation to the core" through an emphasis on "new rules" and engaging front-line employees. She has extensive experience in consumer products, retail and e-commerce, with detailed experience with the largest retailers and CPG companies. An avid reader and aspiring novelist, she has particular passion for the use of story to engage all employees within the organization.

Ken Powell has over 20 years of experience in the aerospace and automotive industries with consulting experience developing innovative, value-creating growth strategies for clients spanning communications, consumer products, automotive, oil, and food industries in Europe and North America.

His original experience as a systems engineer spanned design and launch of satellites and space probes, technology transfer projects and the development of fuel cell programs in the auto industry, including positions of engineering strategy manager.

Mercy Salaz is a Network Partner with Strategos and has over twenty years of experience challenging companies to build innovative growth strategies by assessing core capabilities, energizing employee creativity and defining clear action plans.

Peter Wilson is an experienced strategy consultant, formerly with McKinsey, who has worked on growth projects in a variety of industries including financial services, oil & gas and FMCG. He specializes in multinational business operations and is the co-author of "The Business Case for Reducing Poverty" (Greenleaf 2006). Formerly a member of the British Diplomatic Service he has an MBA with Distinction from INSEAD and an MPhil in Economics from Oxford University.

Vas Vasiliadis is a Network Partner with over 20 years of experience in operational and consulting roles, spanning strategy, marketing and technology. He is an experienced product marketing professional, with a passion for shaping emerging technologies to bring innovative products to market. Vas has nurtured early stage companies into successful businesses and consulted to clients around the world on a wide range of strategic issues.

Joao is a Strategos Network Partner with over 15 years of experience, having worked in nine different countries with a focus in Eastern Europe and Central Asia, nevertheless in September he can be found in sunny Portugal taking care of his grapes.

Joao has helped different top managers from a variety of industries to set strategic directions, identifying and developing new growth opportunities and aiming to make their organizations more innovative.