Chazey Partners announces recruitment of veteran shared services practitioner, Craig Ackerman, to lead U.S. Federal Practice
June 22, 2017

Chazey Partners announces recruitment of veteran shared services practitioner, Craig Ackerman, to lead U.S. Federal Practice

Chazey Partners, a global management consulting firm providing advisory services to both public and private sector clients, is proud to announce the recruitment of Craig Ackerman to the position of Principal, U.S. Federal Practice effective June 19.

For a number of years, Chazey has been working with government clients at both federal and local levels, on engagements from design through build of more efficient service delivery operations.  Through our partiChazey Partners, a global management consulting firm providing advisory services to both public and private sector clients, is proud to announce the recruitment of Craig Ackerman to the position of Principal, U.S. Federal Practice effective June 19.cipation in the Shared Services Leadership Council and the Partnership for Public Service we have an active voice in how Federal Government agencies can leverage shared services for greater efficiency. We were recently invited to provide testimony at a House of Representatives Oversight and Government Reform Committee “Roundtable” on Federal Shared Services. Given the significant opportunity and greater focus on shared services in Federal Government, Chazey is expanding operations in this area.

Craig brings over 25 years of experience in business leadership, transformation, shared services and outsourcing to this role. He is an accomplished C-level partner, with multiple successes in rapidly assessing organizational leadership capabilities, team effectiveness and key processes to define or optimize corporate structure, enhance service quality and achieve strategic savings.  Recently Craig was Director of a multi-function finance, HR and procurement shared services team at Day & Zimmermann, a $2.7B industrial, defense, and workforce services organization. In a previous role with SAIC, a Federal service provider, Craig was Deputy Director for Shared Services as well as a member of an enterprise PMO charged with removing $100M in overhead costs through functional transformation, shared services establishment and strategic cost reduction.  Craig has an MBA from Boston University and a BSc degree in Computer Science from the United States Military Academy at West Point.

“In keeping with our unique value proposition at Chazey, Craig brings a practitioner’s experience to his role, which we fully expect will benefit our Federal clients” said Phil Searle, CEO of Chazey Partners.  “We look forward to working with Craig to make substantial progress in this area”.  Craig will be basing the U.S. Federal Practice in the Greater Washington, D.C. area

About Chazey Partners

Chazey Partners is a practitioners-led global management advisory business.  We bring together a unique wealth of experience, empowering our clients to strive for world class excellence through Business Transformation, Shared Services & Outsourcing, Technology Enablement, Process Enhancement and Corporate Strategy Optimization. We pride ourselves in having built, operated and turned around some of the world’s most highly commended and ground breaking Shared Services Organizations, and for implementing many highly successful multi-sourced (shared services and outsourced) delivery solutions. Over the last 20 years, we have delivered numerous programs globally, in the US, Canada, UK, Continental Europe, Ireland, India, Eastern Europe, South America, Singapore, Australia, China, Middle-East and Africa.

Our experience covers both Private and Public Sectors, providing expertise in a wide spectrum of business functions, including Finance, HR, IT and Procurement.