The Consulting Report is pleased to announce The Top 25 Consulting Firm CEOs of 2025. Over the past decade, consulting has expanded into one of the most consequential segments of the modern economy. In the United States alone, the management consulting market has grown by well over $100 billion, while the workforce has expanded to nearly 900,000 professionals. That growth has occurred amid sustained economic volatility, regulatory pressure, and technological change—placing consulting firms in an increasingly central role in how organizations respond when conditions shift.
The leaders recognized in this year’s list are responsible for how that influence is exercised. They run firms that design and implement enterprise systems, manage financial and operational risk, guide public and private institutions through restructuring, and translate strategic decisions into operating reality. Some oversee global partnerships with hundreds of thousands of professionals; others lead smaller, highly specialized firms. Across models, these CEOs determine how strategy is translated into operating decisions, how technology is introduced into core business processes, and how risk is managed when the cost of failure is high.
Among this year’s awardees, Nigel Vaz, Chief Executive Officer of Publicis Sapient, has led the firm’s long-standing focus on enterprise digital transformation and AI platforms, advising global clients across industries and overseeing the development of proprietary tools that support complex, large-scale transformation work. Sophie Ross, Global Chief Executive Officer of FTI Consulting’s Technology segment, oversees a global platform spanning 29 offices in six countries, directing strategy and delivery for data, compliance, and risk services used by corporations, financial institutions, and governments.
Mark Hussey, President and Chief Executive Officer of Huron, brings deep operational and financial leadership shaped by more than a decade at the firm, including prior roles as chief operating officer, interim healthcare industry leader, and chief financial officer, where he was responsible for capital strategy, investor relations, and returning the business to growth.
This year’s awardees were selected through a methodical nomination process and careful consideration of each candidate’s career track record and industry contributions. Please join us in celebrating The Top 25 Consulting Firm CEOs of 2025.
1. Julie Sweet
Firm: Accenture
Title: Chair & CEO
Julie Sweet is the Chair and Chief Executive Officer of Accenture, where she leads the firm’s global strategy, operations, and client engagements. With approximately 799,000 employees serving clients in more than 120 countries, Accenture provides services across strategy and consulting, technology, interactive, and operations, supporting organizations through large-scale digital, operational, and organizational change.
2. Janet Truncale
Firm: EY
Title: Global Chair & CEO
Janet Truncale is the Global Chair and Chief Executive Officer of EY, a multinational professional services organization that provides assurance, tax, consulting, and strategy services to clients worldwide. The firm’s purpose, “Building a better working world,” guides its work in delivering quality insights, AI-driven solutions, and programs that develop future skills, empowering approximately 400,000 people across more than 150 countries and territories.
3. Nigel Vaz
Firm: Publicis Sapient
Title: Chief Executive Officer
Nigel Vaz is CEO of Publicis Sapient, the technology company providing enterprise AI platforms and services. He is also a member of Publicis Groupe’s Executive Committee and serves as Global Lead of Digital Business Transformation for the communication, media, data and technology group. For more than 30 years, Publicis Sapient has been an industry leader in digital business transformation experience. helping clients transform how they operate, serve their customers, unlock new value and thrive in an AI-driven world. Publicis Sapient clients include Carrefour, Goldman Sachs, Marriott, McDonald’s, Nationwide, Nissan and Unilever.
In more than 25 years with the company, Nigel has acted as a strategic advisor on complex transformation initiatives with clients across geographies and a range of industries, including financial services, automotive, retail, consumer products, and telecommunications, media, and technology. Today, with AI advances now firmly part of clients’ broader transformation requirements, Publicis Sapient is positioned to connect data and AI across capabilities and broader transformation remits. Nigel has spearheaded the development of proprietary AI tools such as Sapient Slingshot and Bodhi, which automate complex processes and help transform businesses at pace through AI-powered solutions.
Nigel is author of the bestselling book “Digital Business Transformation – How Established Companies Sustain Competitive Advantage from Now to Next,” based on years of partnering with clients to harness the power of digital. He is also an inductee of the BIMA Digital Hall of Fame, and has served as President of the IPA (Institute of Practitioners in Advertising) and board director of The Marketing Society.
Nigel is a regular commentator in broadcast and print media and author of numerous articles on business and AI transformation, technology, brand experience and culture. He advises some of the world’s largest businesses on their transformation initiatives. Prior to joining Publicis Sapient, he was a successful entrepreneur, co-founding a public company with interests in internet consulting and connectivity solutions.
4. Joseph Ucuzoglu
Firm: Deloitte
Title: Global Chief Executive Officer
Joe Ucuzoglu oversees one of the largest professional services organizations in the world as the Global Chief Executive Officer of Deloitte. Operating across more than 150 countries and territories, Deloitte employs approximately 470,000 professionals and reported global revenues exceeding $67 billion in 2024.
5. Mohamed Kande
Firm: PwC
Title: Global Chairman
Mohamed Kande is the Global Chairman of PwC, where he leads the firm’s integrated Network Leadership Team and oversees collaboration across its global network of firms. In this role, he works with senior leaders to guide PwC’s strategy, operations, and large-scale transformation initiatives.
6. Shub Bhowmik
Firm: Tredence
Title: CEO & Co-Founder
Shub Bhowmick is the CEO and Co-Founder of Tredence. In 2013, Shubh and his partners launched Tredence, a data science and AI engineering company focused on solving the last-mile problem in analytics. The ‘last mile’ is defined as the gap between insight creation and value realization. Today, Tredence is Great Place to Work-Certified and is recognized within the market for its work in data science, analytics, and AI-driven consulting.
Tredence is 4,000+ employees strong, with offices in the San Francisco Bay Area, Chicago, London, Toronto, Riyadh, and Bangalore, with the largest companies in retail, CPG, hi-tech, telecom, healthcare, travel, and industrials as clients.
For more than 27 years, Shubh has been a problem solver, entrepreneur, and technology leader. Prior to the founding of Tredence, he held senior executive positions at Diamond Consultants (now PwC), Mu Sigma, Liberty Advisor Group, and Infosys. Shubh holds an MBA from Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management and a bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering from IIT-BHU, India.
7. Bob Sternfels
Firm: McKinsey & Company
Title: Global Managing Partner
Bob Sternfels is the Global Managing Partner of McKinsey & Company and chairs the firm’s board of directors. In this role, he leads McKinsey’s efforts to deliver lasting, substantial performance improvements for clients while fostering a culture that attracts, develops, and retains exceptional people.
8. Sophie Ross
Firm: FTI Consulting
Title: Global CEO of Technology
Sophie Ross, Global CEO of FTI Technology, is an award-winning executive in professional services and technology enablement, specializing in areas including legal transformation and digital risk. She is an integral leader across consulting and legal technology in pursuing strategic implementation of AI and advanced technologies that help organizations drive competitive advantage and operational efficiencies.
Sophie advises Fortune 1000 executives, legal teams and their law firms, enabling them to harness the power of advanced technology to reduce risk and grow their opportunities. Throughout her entrepreneurial career, Sophie has successfully built and led teams and businesses at the forefront of technological innovation across various industries, spanning data science, emerging data and cutting-edge agentic AI solutions.
As Global CEO of FTI Technology, Sophie drives advisory expertise and solutions across IQ.AI, Digital Forensics, Information Governance, Privacy & Security, Compliance & Risk, Blockchain & Digital Assets, E-Discovery and Legal Operations practices. Since her appointment to the role in 2016, she has led accelerated growth and transformation of the business through a client-centric strategy. She leads some of the world’s foremost subject matter experts in Digital Insights & Risk Management and has launched new practices to address emerging data risks, initiated innovation programs to develop, test and adopt advanced technology, and expanded the company’s footprint and go-to-market across the Americas, Europe and Asia Pacific. She is a member of the firm’s Executive Committee.
Sophie joined FTI Consulting through its 2008 acquisition of Strategic Discovery Inc., a leader in the litigation discovery industry, where she served as the Chief Operating Officer. Prior to Strategic Discovery, she was Executive Vice President of Global Delivery & Operations at Freeborders Inc. (acquired by Symbio), an application outsourcing and software firm. She has also held strategic and operational roles at Revlon Inc. /MacAndrews & Forbes, and The Boston Consulting Group.
Sophie utilizes her international and European background and is fluent in four languages. She holds a Bachelor of Science in Industrial Engineering from Tel Aviv University, and an MBA from Harvard Business School.
Across dozens of countries and every major continent, FTI Technology solves data-related business challenges, with expertise across the spectrum of Digital Insights & Risk Management. As data grows in size and complexity, we help organisations better govern, secure, find, analyze and rapidly make sense of information. Innovative technology, expert services and tenacious problem solving provide our global clients with defensible and repeatable solutions. Organisations rely on us to root out fraud, maintain regulatory compliance, remediate customers where wrongdoing may have occurred, reduce legal and IT costs, protect sensitive materials, quickly find facts and harness organizational data to create business value.
9. Mark Hussey
Firm: Huron
Title: CEO & President
Mark Hussey is the Chief Executive Officer of Huron, having been appointed to the role in January 2023. He has served as President since February 2019 and previously held the role of chief operating officer from February 2014 through July 2022. During this period, he also served as interim healthcare industry leader from January 2017 until February 2019, leading the business back to growth and positioning it for expanded collaboration across Huron’s industries and capabilities.
Earlier in his tenure at Huron, Mark served as chief financial officer from July 2011 until January 2017 and as treasurer from July 2011 through February 2016. In these roles, he was responsible for the firm’s capital and financing strategies, as well as investor relations, finance, and accounting functions.
Prior to joining Huron, Mark was the chief financial officer for CrossCom National, where he was responsible for all finance and administrative functions. Mark has also held various finance and accounting positions for Information Resources, Ezlinks Golf, Dominick’s Division of Safeway, Acme Metals, and The Quaker Oats Company. His decades of experience in a variety of industries have positioned him well to advance Huron’s strategic, growth-oriented vision.
Mark received his bachelor’s degree in accountancy from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign and an MBA in finance from the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business. He is a chartered financial analyst, certified management accountant, and certified public accountant (Illinois).
10. John Walsworth
Firm: CSG Government Solutions
Title: Founder, Chairman, & CEO
John Walsworth is the Founder, Chairman, and Chief Executive Officer of CSG Government Solutions, a firm that specializes in managing complex projects to modernize the information technology and organizational processes of government programs. Since 1997, CSG has helped government agencies in 50 states and territories enhance their capabilities, particularly in programs that support vulnerable populations such as Medicaid, unemployment insurance, child support, child welfare, and other assistance programs.
Walsworth built CSG with a focus on delivering high-quality management services and ensuring the productivity of project teams. Over the last three decades, he has led our teams in helping hundreds of government clients navigate major technology shifts, from the introduction of online services to current efforts to enhance digital government services and streamline processes through the integration of artificial intelligence, interoperable systems, and other capabilities. He also created CSG Tech, an organization focusing on industry research, training, and automated tools that promote the success of these projects.
Walsworth’s reputation for building strong teams and successfully managing large-scale engagements has paved the way for CSG to becoming a national leader in management consulting. Prior to founding CSG, Walsworth worked as a consultant for Andersen Consulting and Computer Sciences Corporation. He holds a BA in mathematics and history from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
11. Mike Maddison
Firm: NCC Group
Title: Group Chief Executive Officer
Mike Maddison leads global cyber security and resilience company NCC Group as Group Chief Executive Officer. He oversees the firm’s global operations across cyber security and software escrow, working with a team of more than 2,100 professionals delivering services that strengthen operational resilience and data security for organizations worldwide. For more than 25 years, NCC Group has supported leading companies and governments in managing cyber risk and building resilient digital environments.
Mike joined NCC Group as Group Chief Executive Officer following a career spanning senior leadership roles across global professional services firms. Prior to his appointment, he led EY’s cyber security, privacy, and trusted technology practice for EMEA, a role he held since 2017, where he oversaw growth across 97 countries and strengthened the firm’s position as a cyber security adviser. Earlier, he led PwC’s Risk Services practice in the Middle East and previously headed Deloitte’s cyber security consultancy in EMEA for a decade.
12. Michael Dunn
Firm: Prophet
Title: CEO & Chairman
Michael Dunn is the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Prophet, where he leads the firm’s global strategy, client relationships, and talent agenda. He oversees Prophet’s continued global expansion and serves as a strategic advisor on client engagements across sectors including financial services, healthcare, technology, retail, and industrial B2B.
Founded in 1992 and headquartered in San Francisco, Prophet is a global management consulting firm specializing in strategy, branding, innovation, and marketing. The firm operates across 15 global offices with more than 500 strategists and creative professionals, partnering with organizations to move from strategic vision through in-market execution.
Before joining Prophet, Michael was chief executive officer and president of Context Integration and previously served as an independent director at RedEnvelope. He holds an MBA in entrepreneurship and marketing and a master’s degree in Asian studies from the University of California, Berkeley, as well as a bachelor’s degree in economics from Haverford College.
13. Jessica Skon
Firm: BTS Group
Title: CEO & President
Jessica Skon is the President and Chief Executive Officer of BTS Group. She has spent more than two decades at the firm, where she has played a central role in shaping BTS’s approach to strategy execution and leadership development. During her tenure, she pioneered the use of enterprise simulations for strategy execution and built the firm’s leadership practice, advising chief executive officers and C-suite leaders through multi-year transformation efforts.
As President and Chief Executive Officer, Jessica leads BTS Group’s global strategy, client delivery, and leadership agenda. She oversees enterprise transformation work, executive advisory, and leadership development initiatives, supporting organizations as they execute complex strategic shifts and strengthen leadership culture across industries including technology, healthcare, energy, and financial services.
Jessica holds a bachelor’s degree in international business and French studies from the University of Minnesota and a master’s degree in international business from ESCP Business School.
14. Bill Thomas
Firm: KPMG
Title: Global Chairman & CEO
Bill Thomas is the Global Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of KPMG, leading one of the world’s largest professional services organizations. KPMG is a multinational professional services network and one of the “Big Four” accounting firms, providing audit, tax, and advisory services to clients in 143 countries and territories. The firm’s purpose is to “inspire confidence and empower change” by delivering high-quality services and innovative solutions in a rapidly evolving global business environment.
15. Amy Gilliland
Firm: General Dynamics Information Technology
Title: President
Amy Gilliland is the President of General Dynamics Information Technology (GDIT), a business unit of General Dynamics Corporation. GDIT provides technology and professional services to U.S. government, defense, and intelligence agencies, delivering mission services across digital modernization, artificial intelligence, cloud computing, and cybersecurity. The organization employs approximately 30,000 professionals operating in more than 50 countries.
16. John Laughlin
Firm: CTI
Title: CEO & President
John Laughlin is the Chief Executive Officer and President of CTI, the largest privately owned audiovisual integration and events provider in the United States, delivering audiovisual, IT, and unified communications and collaboration solutions across corporate, education, healthcare, government, sports, broadcast, and nonprofit sectors. Headquartered in St. Louis, Missouri, the company operates from more than 40 locations nationwide and maintains a global footprint through European offices and international project delivery.
John leads CTI’s overall strategy, operations, and long-term growth initiatives. He oversees the company’s nationwide and global expansion, integration services, and large-scale project delivery, with a focus on operational excellence, client service, and maintaining CTI’s position as a market leader in audiovisual and events integration.
Before becoming CEO, John joined CTI in accounting and progressed through multiple leadership roles as the company expanded through acquisitions and national growth. He studied at Washburn University and the University of Kansas.
17. Joseph Esteves
Firm: Maine Pointe
Title: Chief Executive Officer
Joseph Esteves is the Chief Executive Officer of Maine Pointe, where he leads the firm’s focus on delivering rapid, durable performance improvement for global organizations. He has built a career driving step-change improvements in profitability, cash flow, and growth while fundamentally improving how organizations operate and perform.
With more than 17 years of experience leading complex global transformations across the plan-buy-make-move value chain, Joseph has advised private equity firms, boards, and executive teams at critical moments of value creation. His work has generated billions in cost reduction, margin expansion, working capital release, and enterprise value growth—often achieved on timelines that challenge traditional consulting models. He is widely recognized for enabling organizations to achieve in months what historically required years. Joseph is also known for building cultures that move faster, think more clearly, and execute with precision.
Joseph is the architect of Maine Pointe’s Combined Intelligence platform, an approach that integrates AI-enabled insight with human judgment, operational mastery, and execution discipline. While much of the consulting industry remains focused on AI experimentation, Joseph has concentrated on practical application and internal transformation. Under his leadership, Maine Pointe is pioneering AI-enabled performance ecosystems that compress decision cycles, accelerate execution, and deliver meaningful performance improvement in weeks rather than months.
Maine Pointe’s delivery model is designed to transfer capability rather than create dependency. Client organizations are trained to operate within fit-for-purpose, AI-enabled systems that elevate decision quality, strengthen accountability, and embed continuous performance improvement into daily operations. The result is sustained financial performance supported by a high-performance culture that aligns leadership behavior, operating cadence, and frontline execution.
A frequent contributor to leading business publications and major media outlets, Joseph holds a bachelor’s degree in business administration in industrial operations and supply chain management from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. He is a member of the Association for Corporate Growth and the Turnaround Management Association.
18. Jayson Traxler
Firm: Stax
Title: Chief Executive Officer
Jayson Traxler is the Chief Executive Officer of Stax, a global strategy consulting firm specializing in commercial due diligence, value creation, and exit planning for clients within the private equity investment ecosystem across diverse industries. Since joining Stax in 2021 as chief operating officer, Traxler has played a key role in the firm’s growth, advancing to president in 2022 and CEO in 2023.
With over 20 years of experience as a strategic finance executive, Traxler has a proven track record of significantly enhancing cash flow, profitability, and shareholder value through both organic and inorganic growth initiatives. Prior to Stax, Jayson spent time as an executive at AlixPartners, leading strategic finance and acquisition functions for the company, as well as senior roles at K2 Integrity, a global risk management consultancy. In addition to his professional services expertise, his experience also includes roles as a management consultant, private equity investor, and investment banker.
19. Blanca Treviño
Firm: Softtek
Title: CEO & President
Blanca Treviño is the President and Chief Executive Officer of Softtek, a global software engineering and IT services company recognized as the largest IT services firm originating from Latin America. Softtek supports Global 2000 organizations through services including custom software development, cloud migration, and AI-driven automation, with operations in more than 20 countries and a workforce of over 15,000 professionals.
20. William Donlan
Firm: Astound Digital
Title: Chief Executive Officer
William Donlan is the Chief Executive Officer of Astound Digital. A seasoned technology executive, he brings more than 35 years of experience leading large-scale digital transformation initiatives for Fortune 100 organizations across industries including retail, consumer goods, manufacturing, aerospace and defense, travel and hospitality, and life sciences.
As Chief Executive Officer, Bill leads a global organization of more than 600 certified engineers across three delivery centers. He advises C-suite executives on enterprise transformation strategies and develops digital transformation roadmaps focused on improving customer and value chain relationships. His work centers on driving enterprise-wide business transformation through integrated business strategy, process optimization, and technology implementation.
Over the course of his career, Bill has spent more than two decades leading front-office transformations for global brands, including major hospitality companies and a leading aerospace manufacturer. His experience spans marketing, loyalty, sales, customer service, and field operations, with deep expertise in enterprise systems, quoting and configuration workflows, supply chain integration, and the adoption of predictive and generative AI to improve efficiency and innovation.
Before joining Astound Digital, Bill held senior leadership roles at Accenture, Capgemini, and KPMG, delivering enterprise transformation programs for Fortune 100 clients. He has led modernization efforts across sales, marketing, customer service, field service, partner and vendor management, and e-commerce operations in sectors including manufacturing, aerospace, utilities, and beyond. Bill holds a master’s degree in information systems from the University of Florida and a bachelor’s degree in accounting.
21. Lokesh Anand
Firm: Sigmoid
Title: CEO & Co-Founder
Lokesh Anand is the Co-Founder and CEO of Sigmoid. Sigmoid is an AI-first data engineering and analytics company that helps enterprises build modern data platforms and apply advanced analytics, AI, and generative AI to drive better business decisions. The company partners with large global enterprises across industries including consumer goods, retail, healthcare, financial services, and adtech, and operates globally with teams in the United States, the United Kingdom, and India.
As CEO, Lokesh leads Sigmoid’s overall strategy, product vision, and client delivery, with a focus on establishing data and analytics as a core strategic capability for enterprises. He works closely with senior leaders at Fortune 500 organizations to modernize data platforms, enable insights-driven decision-making, and unlock measurable revenue growth and operational efficiency through advanced analytics and AI solutions.
Before co-founding Sigmoid, Lokesh was an associate manager at Procter & Gamble and earlier served as a research engineer at Siemens. Earlier in his career, he was a co-ordinator with the entrepreneurship cell at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur. Lokesh holds a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur.
22. Imran Aftab
Firm: 10Pearls
Title: CEO & Co-Founder
Imran Aftab is the Co-Founder and CEO of 10Pearls, a global AI-powered digital engineering consultancy reimagining how enterprises solve complex business problems through discovery-led engagement and value-focused delivery. He has shaped 10Pearls around a core principle: transformation creates value only when it starts with a deep understanding of business goals and delivers tangible, measurable outcomes.
Prior to 10Pearls, Imran led product management and enterprise transformation at MicroStrategy and AOL-Time Warner, gaining firsthand experience of enterprise complexity and operational change at scale. He has bootstrapped 10Pearls from inception, growing it into a 1,400+ person global organization across North America, Latin America, Europe, and Asia, instilling a culture centered on continuous improvement, excellence, and accountability.
Under Imran’s leadership, 10Pearls partners with enterprises to align business strategy and technology execution, combining discovery-led consulting with agile digital engineering. As an end-to-end digital transformation consultancy, he has advised organizations across highly regulated industries, such as healthcare, financial services, industrials, and telcos, on product innovation, platform modernization, scaling AI responsibly, and leveraging technology as a force multiplier to drive efficiency, speed, and scale.
The founding of 10Pearls was driven by Imran’s belief in technology as a force for good. He actively supports initiatives advancing women in technology, youth education, and community development. For Imran, building high-performing organizations and expanding opportunity are mutually reinforcing priorities.
23. Srini Rajamani
Firm: Opus Technologies
Title: Chief Executive Officer
Srini Rajamani is the Chief Executive Officer of Opus Technologies, an engineering and digital transformation partner for banks and fintech companies. The firm specializes in payment solutions and platform engineering and works with Fortune 1000 organizations to modernize payments infrastructure, accelerate innovation, and support large-scale digital transformation initiatives across the financial services ecosystem.
As CEO, Srini leads Opus Technologies’ global strategy, operations, and growth agenda. He oversees delivery, sales, solutions, and market expansion efforts, with a focus on building scalable payment platforms and technology solutions for financial institutions. His experience spans banking and financial services, consumer, retail, and life sciences.
Prior to joining Opus Technologies, Srini held senior leadership roles at Wipro Limited, where he served as senior vice president and sector head for consumer and life sciences with responsibility for P&L, delivery, sales, and new market development. Earlier in his career, he worked at IBM Global Services and began his professional experience at Godrej as an assistant manager. Srini holds an MBA from Xavier Institute of Management, Bhubaneswar.
24. Ignacio García Alves
Firm: Arthur D. Little
Title: Global Chief Executive Officer
Ignacio García Alves is the Global Chief Executive Officer of Arthur D. Little, the world’s first management consulting firm, founded in 1886. Over its history, Arthur D. Little has contributed to major technological and business innovations, including early work on fiberglass development and the design of the NASDAQ stock exchange system.
25. Wayne Berson
Firm: BDO USA
Title: Chief Executive Officer
Wayne Berson is the Chief Executive Officer of BDO USA, the U.S. member firm of BDO International, one of the world’s largest accounting and advisory networks. BDO USA provides assurance, tax, and advisory services to multinational and domestic clients and recently transitioned to an Employee Stock Ownership Plan, giving professionals a direct stake in the firm’s long-term success.