Xavier Mesnard

I have over 25 years of strategy and management consulting experience in consumer goods and retail, pharmaceuticals, beverages and cosmetics. I advise large multinationals on value chain performance issues, competitive advantage creation and organization transformation

I have been the leader of numerous studies including Serving the Bottom of the Pyramid (2006), Setting Standards: a Strategy for Europe (2011 with the ERT) and the Mature Consumer (2012). I taught Industrial Strategy at the ESSEC Business School and sat on the Editorial Board of the “Revue Française de Gestion”. I am also involved in Educo, a charity aiming at educating underprivileged children out of poverty

I was elected to A.T. Kearney’s Board of Directors in January of 2007 and reelected for a second and last mandate in January 2010. During those 6 years, I served on the Global Partner Selection Committee, the Strategy & Portfolio Committee, and then the People Development Committee. I also led the Consumer Goods and Retail Practice in Europe and am now the Global leader of our Operations Practice