Boston Consulting Group promotes six leaders to next level in Australia
Global strategy consulting firm Boston Consulting Group has promoted a number of its professionals to the next level in Australia, including six new senior partners and managing directors & partners.
Samuel Farley, Matthew Abel, and Abhay Varma have all become senior partners, while Andy Heaton, Chilman Jain, and Christopher Bisset have been promoted to managing director and partner.
In Australia, Boston Consulting Group now has around 45 partners.
Samuel Farley becomes a senior partner and managing director after joining Boston Consulting Group from Porsche Consulting in 2011, prior to which he worked as an aerospace engineer. He currently leads BCG’s Melbourne office and national private equity practice, as well as heading the firm’s strategic planning topic at the global level with a focus on the tech and telecommunications sectors.
Based out of BCG’s newly-upgraded office in Perth, Matthew Abel is a core member of the firm’s energy practice, serving major oil & gas clients on strategy, optimisation, organisational design, and sustainable transformation. He has been with the firm for more than a decade and a half after originally joining in Houston in 2009 following an earlier stint as a reservoir engineer at Shell.
Abhay Varma heads up BCG’s Asia Pacific retail practice based out of Sydney, along with the firm’s Australian and New Zealand consumer business, combining expertise in customer, digital, procurement, and operations among other areas. He joined the consultancy in New York at the beginning of 2013, bringing earlier senior experience from Unilever and Coles.
One of three new managing directors and partners, Andy Heaton currently leads BCG’s digital operations agenda for the A/NZ, primarily advising clients in the industrial goods and mining sectors on a broad range of strategy topics including advanced analytics. He crossed to BCG in 2018 after spending an earlier five years at Deloitte, originally joining the Big Four firm in London.
Chilman Jain meanwhile initially joined BCG in the Indian tech capital of Gurgaon in 2015 after an earlier four-and-a-half-year stint Accenture, before landing with the strategy firm in Sydney two years later. She serves healthcare and financial services clients across strategy, technology and innovation, with digital transformation and business model reinvention among her areas of expertise.
In a departure from the above, Christopher Bisset has spent his entire career at the firm in Australia, joining BCG in 2016 on completion of a law and political science double with the University of Sydney and earlier taste as an intern. Now a co-leader of BCG’s A/NZ corporate finance and strategy practice, he focuses on the TMT, infrastructure, and consumer sectors among others.
