Michael is a seasoned executive with more than two decades of experience in advising global corporations on improvement of operational and financial performance, organizational design, and cost optimization in the high-tech, IT services, business services, and industrial products sectors across Europe, the Americas, and Asia. Michael's clients benefit from his expertise in strategy, business development, and finance. Previously, he was a senior executive with Accenture in London, overseeing strategic planning, performance improvement, and turnaround initiatives for Fortune 1000 companies, primarily in the high-tech, telecommunications, IT, and fast-moving-consumer-goods sectors. Michael has an MBA from Northwestern University's J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management.