Rich Lesser is Chairman of North and South America for The Boston Consulting Group (BCG), based in New York, and a member of the firm’s Executive Committee.

Prior to being named regional chairman in 2009, he served as head of the New York Metro office system since 2000. During that period, the business and team more than doubled and BCG added a second location in New Jersey.

Rich's client work has focused on large-scale transformation and growth in the healthcare and consumer sectors, including major efforts to redirect corporate and business unit strategy, improve productivity and ensure successful post-merger integration. In 2009, Consulting magazine named him one of the industry's "Top 25" most influential consultants of the year.

Prior to joining BCG, Rich worked in product development at Procter & Gamble. He has an MBA from Harvard Business School, where he was a Baker Scholar, and a BSE in chemical engineering summa cum laude from the University of Michigan.

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