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Stephen Brant
Executive Vice President, Market Development
Mr. Brant is the executive vice president for Hitachi Consulting's Market Development group. In this role he oversees two areas - Marketing / Intellectual Property Development, and Strategy / Mergers & Acquisitions.
Prior to assuming the Market Development leadership role, Mr. Brant led the Products Industries group. He oversaw the strategic direction and go-to-market activities of the practices that made up the company's Products Industries, including consumer, high tech, energy and industrial. He also directly managed the Consumer Products team and consulting practice.
Mr. Brant specialized in consumer driven industries for most of his career, with special expertise in revenue management, supply chain, manufacturing and strategy. His career spans more than 35 years helping companies in the United States, Canada, Europe, Australia and SE Asia to implement change for high performance and competitive advantage. During this time, he also was the executive responsible for the revenue and profitability of various geographic, divisional and corporate teams.
Prior to joining Hitachi Consulting, Mr. Brant served as executive vice president and CIO on a management team tasked with the turn-around and sale of an international manufacturing and distribution business. Before that, he was president of a strategy and strategic projects boutique consultancy, a managing partner for Andersen Business Consulting, and a managing partner for Andersen Consulting (Accenture). While at Andersen Consulting, Mr. Brant led the worldwide food and packaged goods manufacturing industry segment for which his team developed a number of go-to-market programs, and co-authored an early version of the "Efficient Consumer Response Model."
Mr. Brant received a Bachelor of Science degree in management from Purdue University. He and his family live in Boulder, Colorado.
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