Rich Lesser
Richard "Rich" Lesser is an American businessman who is the CEO of American global management consultancy the Boston Consulting Group.Education
He attended the University of Michigan, where he graduated with a bachelor's degree in Chemical Engineering, and then Harvard Business School as a Baker Scholar.Career
Lesser started his career as a process development engineer and group leader at Procter & Gamble.
In 1988, Lesser joined BCG as a consultant, and was elected to the firm's Executive Committee in 2006. It is claimed he played a pivotal role in helping BCG become the only global management consulting firm to grow strongly through the 2008 recession.
In May 2012, he was named the successor of Hans-Paul Bürkner as the Global Chief Executive Officer of The Boston Consulting Group. Since then the firm has opened nine new offices. Lesser oversaw the launch of BCG Digital Ventures, a global digital business-building firm; BCG Gamma, an analytics and machine-learning team; and BCG TURN, a turnaround, restructuring, and transformation unit.
In December 2016, Lesser joined a business forum assembled by then president-elect Donald Trump to provide strategic and policy advice on economic issues. In October 2018, Lesser began a third three-year term as CEO of Boston Consulting Group.
