Boston Consulting Group promotions settle in to new senior roles
A number of senior professionals are settling to their new roles in Boston Consulting Group’s Australasian offices following the strategy firm’s latest round of global mid-year promotions.
Melbourne-based pair Mitchell Smith and Fergie Romero and Sydney’s Chris Turner and Vivien Alonzo have all been admitted to the A/NZ partnership of Boston Consulting Group (BCG), along with Richard Hobbs in Auckland.
Meanwhile, BCG Platinion and Technology & Digital Advantage practice leader Andrew Arcuri has been elevated to managing director and senior partner in Sydney, joining just a handful of local colleagues at the very top level.
Andrew Arcuri
Arcuri has been with the firm for the past decade and a half, including as a managing director and partner since 2017. He is also a member of BCG’s Center for Digital Government and Asia Pacific lead for ERP transformation. Prior to joining BCG, he spent a decade as the founder and managing director of EDU Technology Solutions, which served the education and eCommerce sectors.
Mitchell Smith
Smith joined BCG in 2018 following an MBA with Harvard Business School, and has steadily worked his way up since to now become a partner in the firm’s Principal Investor and Private Equity (PIPE) practice in Melbournee. Prior to joining, he spent half a decade at BHP as an on-site mining engineer at Cannington and then valuations and investment specialist out of Brisbane.
Fergie Romero
A partner in the firm’s Financial Institutions and Corporate Finance & Strategy practices out of Melbourne, Romero has been with BCG for just shy of a decade, including a stint in its New York office and on secondment to the ANZ bank. She earlier spent three years at Jacobs, having earned a masters in civil and structural engineering with the University of Melbourne.
Chris Turner
Another early-career engineer, Turner makes partner in Sydney after joining BCG in 2017, with a previous five-year spell at WorleyParson’s advisory line Advisian (since rebranded to Worley Consulting) followed by an on-site MBA with the London Business School. Turner earlier completed his bachelor in civil engineering with the University of Sydney, starting out at TTW.
Vivien Alonzo
A specialist in corporate strategy, organisation, operational efficiency, and turn-around, Alonzo becomes a partner in BCG’s Sydney office after joining the firm from electrical products supplier Rexel in 2022. A masters-holder in aerospace engineering from ISAE-SUPAERO in Toulouse, he previously spent five years with BCG in Paris, as well as a brief stint at Booz Allen Hamilton.
Richard Hobbs
Meanwhile, former Sydney-based BCG project leader Richard Hobbs has now made partner in Auckland after rejoining the firm upon its relaunch in New Zealand in 2022. In between, Hobbs spent two and a half years in a strategy & customer general manager role at Transpower. He joins country co-leaders Kelly Newton and Phillip Benedetti as a member of the local partnership.
