BOSTON and LONDON, July 1, 2024
/PRNewswire/ -- Bain & Company, one of the world's leading
management consulting firms, today welcomes Christophe De Vusser as the firm's new Worldwide
Managing Partner (Chief Executive Officer).
De Vusser, who was elected to lead Bain in January, becomes the
first European to take the role of Worldwide Managing Partner and
CEO. He joined the firm in 2000 and has worked with Bain's clients
in all geographies.
A Belgian citizen, De Vusser has previously served as managing
partner of Bain's Brussels office,
from 2012-2018, helping double its business while expanding
activities into new areas. Subsequently, he has led Bain's work
with Private Equity and Financial Investor clients across
Europe and globally, advising on
strategy and operations, as well as value creation in portfolio
companies and deal execution, tripling the practice's business in
recent years. He has wide-ranging expertise on corporate mergers
and acquisitions. De Vusser joined Bain's Board of Directors in
2018. In 2005, Bain honored him with the Bright-Dix Award, an
annual internal award recognizing excellence in developing
people.
De Vusser succeeds Manny Maceda
who has just completed his second three-year term as Bain's
Worldwide Managing Partner having led Bain through a period of
accelerated expansion since 2018.
"I'm very excited by the opportunity to lead Bain and extend its
impressive track record of success at what is a pivotal moment for
our clients," said De Vusser. "The world and the business landscape
are changing at a near unprecedented pace, with technology and AI
at the crest of this wave of change. This is challenging our
clients to reinvent their businesses and industries – in a
responsible way, and at breakneck pace. We are well positioned to
help our clients to meet this moment and thrive through our
uniquely collaborative way of shaping bold ambitions, defining the
future, and enabling change."
De Vusser added: "I feel honored to succeed Manny at this
exciting time and energized by the chance to build on the
double-digit growth, and expansion of the firm's capabilities and
footprint, that Bain secured under Manny's exceptional leadership
over the past six years. I look forward to working with our
extraordinary team of 19,000 Bainies around the world on writing
the next chapter of results stories for our clients while
continuing to foster our special Bain culture as one of the world's
best places to work and a magnet for the best and the brightest
talent across the globe."
Bain is currently continuing the rapid growth and development of
its AI practice and expanding its AI capabilities. Tech and AI
enabled revenue is already driving 30% of the firm's business in
2024 and Bain expects that this will reach half of revenue in the
coming years. The firm employs more than 1,500 experts in its
expanding digital teams across its Advanced Analytics, Enterprise
Technology, and Innovation & Design practices. It has also
grown its wider ecosystem to more than 700 partner organizations,
including key alliances with OpenAI, Microsoft, AWS, Google, SAP,
Salesforce and IBM. Internally, the firm has deployed a suite of
cutting-edge AI-driven tools to fuel and accelerate delivery of
client insights, including Sage, a state-of-the-art proprietary
chat platform powered by GPT-4 from OpenAI.
De Vusser began his 25-year Bain career in the firm's Consumer
Products practice and maintains extensive involvement with this
area of the firm's business, bringing clients expertise in growth,
sales and marketing strategy, business transformation,
sustainability and corporate turnaround programs. Prior to
joining Bain, he worked for Procter & Gamble with
responsibilities for global sourcing for P&G's Fabric &
Home Care business. He earned a Master's degree in Civil
Engineering and also holds a Master's in Multilingual Business
Communications, both from the University of Ghent, Belgium. He is married with two children and
will be based in New York.
Media contacts
Dan Pinkney (Boston) — Email: dan.pinkney@bain.com
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