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We are a highly specialized firm whose expertise lies at the intersection of strategy consulting, process and organizational design, and offsite facilitation.
Andrew McIlwraith
Senior Manager
At Strategic Offsites, Andrew has consulted across multiple industries in several continents. Sample industries include retail, financial services (including insurance, retail brokerage, clearing, credit cards, credit reporting), food and beverages (both retail and ingredient supply), upstream oil and gas, industrial products, and medical instruments. In addition multiple strategy development projects, Andrew has worked extensively on initiative prioritization and resource allocation issues helping connect the worlds of strategy and implementation.
Before joining Strategic Offsites in 2005, he spent nine years with Gemini Consulting (subsequently Cap Gemini Ernst & Young) in the Strategy practice. While at Gemini, Andrew leveraged his financial and strategy experience to develop Balanced Scorecards in a variety of industries, including consumer products, chemicals, and food ingredients. Other project work included a distribution strategy for a consumer lawn and garden chemical company and a debit card strategy for a major regional retail bank.
Prior to joining Gemini, Andrew worked as a credit analyst in the Specialized Finance arm of Dresdner Bank AG, London Branch. His responsibilities included analyzing new leveraged and project finance loans, as well as loans which had been reclassified into the specialized department.
Before Dresdner, Andrew was with Citicorp Investment Bank Limited, London. Andrew graduated from Duke University with an AB in Economics and History.
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