Guidehouse adds three partners to financial services segment
Guidehouse, a Tysons, VA-based management consulting firm, has hired three new partners in its financial services segment: Diarmuid O'Casey, Li Zheng, and Skander Kechaou.
The three professionals bring extensive experience in managed services, risk and compliance, and technology modernization.
Based in Arlington, VA, O’Casey joins the public sector financial managed services team, bringing over 25 years of leadership experience focused on managed services and fostering relationships with government agencies. He has delivered enterprise solutions across AI, business development, cloud strategy, cybersecurity, technology modernization, and knowledge process outsourcing.
O’Casey previously held senior business development roles at ASRC Federal and within the federal BPO subsidiary of Accenture. Earlier in his career, he was chief solutions architect and capture manager at Xerox Federal Solutions and a senior program manager at Lockheed Martin Information Technology.
Zheng is based in Raleigh, NC and will focus on expanding Guidehouse's commercial financial managed services practice. He has led numerous digital initiatives in anti-money laundering, banking, legal, and fraud operations, know your customer (KYC), and risk and internal controls.
Zheng joins Guidehouse from Accenture, where he was a principal director and global risk and compliance operational capabilities leader. Before that, he was a principal consultant at Sapiens and global markets client lifecycle management operations and technology lead at Credit Suisse.
Kechaou is based in Boston and will focus on expanding Guidehouse’s partnerships with regional and national banks. He has over 25 years of experience implementing transformation solutions that drive revenue growth and operational effectiveness.
Kechaou previously spent more than 20 years at IBM, where he was a partner and leader of the Oracle HCM cloud service line in North America. Before his tenure at IBM, he was a principal consultant at PwC.
“We proudly welcome Diarmuid, Li, and Skander to Guidehouse. With decades of accomplishments, they bring a highly specialized skillset to the team, strengthening our capabilities to deliver technology-enabled, results-driven solutions to our clients,” said Jessica Stallmeyer, Guidehouse’s financial services segment leader.
Guidehouse’s financial services segment works with commercial and public financial services organizations to mitigate risk, navigate regulatory pressures, and adapt to shifting markets.
The firm has more than 17,000 employees globally.
