EFESO Management Consultants strengthens partner team with Chris Cardinal
EFESO Management Consultants, a Paris-headquartered operational consulting firm, has hired Chris Cardinal as a partner in its chemicals practice.
Based in New York, Cardinal brings more than 37 years of industry and consulting expertise in chemicals and materials. He has worked with corporate and private equity organizations on growth, value creation, and performance improvement initiatives across the Americas, Europe, and APAC.
Cardinal has expertise across supply chain and operations cost transformation, network optimization, sourcing and procurement, business performance turnaround, margin and pricing improvement, operating model design, and M&A advisory.
He joins EFESO from EY, where he spent four years as an executive director. Before that, Cardinal was a managing director at Accenture and PwC and a principal at Roland Berger and Charles River Associates. He began his consulting career with Arthur D. Little, where he spent a decade and was a senior manager.
Cardinal has an MBA from Babson College and a bachelor’s degree in chemistry from the University of Connecticut.
“We are pleased to welcome Chris Cardinal as a Partner at EFESO Management Consultants - Americas expanding our leadership in the Chemicals industry,” the firm said in a LinkedIn post. “We’re excited to have Chris on board as we continue to grow our presence and deliver real performance and profit improvement results across the Americas.”
EFESO was founded in 1980 and has 1,000+ employees across 30+ locations in the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia. The French consultancy has US offices in Houston and Ann Arbor, MI.
EFESO works on strategy execution and operational excellence engagements with clients in manufacturing, energy, life sciences, and private equity, among other industries.
“I’m excited to join EFESO’s Chemicals team and to work together with out clients to translate operational improvement potential into tangible value delivered,” Cardinal said.
