romain ichbiah

Mr. Ichbiah brings a unique mix of hands-on entrepreneurial strategy consulting and M&A experience gained in the US and EU, with Technology, Industrial, Consumer Goods and Private Equity Clients.

Mr. Ichbiah has consulted with dozens of mid and large caps on a wide range of executive-level issues such as strategy development, portfolio optimization, M&A strategy, innovation and analytics in the Consumer, Technology, and Industrial Goods and Services industries, in addition to working with Private Equity Clients on the buy and sell-sides. In his last full time role, he was a Director and a Senior Leader within the investment bank Houlihan Lokey's strategy consulting practice. He also recently served as acting Head of Corporate Strategy for Johnson Controls, a $24B Global Enterprise.

A creative and critical thinker, passionate about innovating, with a knack for data, analytics and the "impossible assignments", Mr. Ichbiah has successfully built two search engines and has authored an approach to generate disruptive innovation; he was also one of the leaders of Nielsen's Management Consulting start-up, which grew into a multimillion dollar practice in only two years.

Mr. Ichbiah has an MBA from Kellogg, and a Master of Science in Business from ESSEC, France’s leading business school. He is fluent in French and Spanish and is also Series 63/79 certified (Investment Banking).

You should reach out to Mr. Ichbiah for any growth-related efforts (organic and M&A), market / company diligence topics or for the unique, "impossible" (scope and /or timing-wise) assignments, in the US and the EU.