ZCG Consulting hires Douglas Staudmeister as managing director

ZCG Consulting (ZCGC), the management consulting arm of merchant bank Z Capital Group (ZCG), has hired Douglas Staudmeister as a managing director and head of transformation and integration.

Based in Reno, Staudmeister will oversee operational transformation, performance improvement, and value creation initiatives across portfolio companies and middle market businesses.

He brings more than 20 years of experience advising private equity sponsors, corporate boards, and executive leadership teams on growth and turnarounds. Staudmeister has expertise across operational transformation, cost reduction, revenue growth, post-merger integration, supply chain optimization, and strategic planning across the industrial, aerospace and defense, technology, consumer products and medical device sectors.

He joins ZCGC from AlixPartners, where he spent the last seven years as a director in the performance improvement practice. Before that he was an operating advisory at TBL Strategy and a project leader at Boston Consulting Group.

Earlier in his career, he served as a captain in the USAF JAG Corps, the military justice and legal branch of the US Air Force.

Staudmeister has an MBA from London Business School, a juris doctor from American University Washington College of Law, and a bachelor’s degree in aerospace engineering from the University of Notre Dame.

“Doug brings a valuable combination of strategic insight, hands-on operating experience and a proven ability to execute complex transformation initiatives,” said James Zenni, founder, president, and CEO of ZCG. “His appointment further strengthens ZCGC’s ability to assist portfolio companies and management teams improve performance, navigate operational challenges and create sustainable long-term value.”

ZCGC provides value creation consulting to private equity firms and their mid-market portfolio companies. The practice’s offerings include performance improvement, finance transformation, and transaction advisory, as well as technology, human capital, and real estate solutions.

Parent company ZCG is headquartered in New York has approximately 250 professionals globally and approximately $7 billion of assets under management.