About Us

Claire Love is a Project Leader in the New York office of The Boston Consulting Group.  She joined BCG in 2008 in Hong Kong, later moving to New York, and the Strategy Institute in May 2010. 

Prior to joining the Strategy Institute, Claire’s consulting work focused on strategy in multiple industries across the public, non-profit and private sectors; in particular, her industry focus has been in financial services, health care, and education.  She has a particular interest in globalization, economic development, and public sector reform.

Prior to joining the firm, Claire worked at Credit Suisse in equity research and structured credit derivatives. After Credit Suisse, Claire worked in the Chancellor's Office of the NYC Department of Education on process improvement and organizational redesign initiatives.

Claire received her MBA from Harvard Business School with honors, her MPA from Harvard Kennedy School, and her BA in economics and international studies from Yale University with distinction. She also studied at Oxford.

Akira Shibata is an Associate in based in the New York office as an Ambassador to the Strategy Institute. He initially joined BCG in 2009 in Tokyo.

Prior to joining the Strategy Institute, Akira worked on strategy development for industries such as TMT (machine-to-machine communication and wireless-enabled new devices) and healthcare (drug discovery process innovation and global vaccine strategy). He also contributed to the World Economic Forum case work to structure their activities in response to the recent disaster in Japan.

Akira received a Ph.D. in Experimental Particle Physics from Queen Mary, University of London. He worked as a member of the ATLAS experiment at the LHC particle accelerator located at CERN, Geneva. He then worked as Post-Doctoral Scientist at New York University working in the same experiment. He specialized in the development of analysis strategy for top quark measurement, statistical physical modeling of a broad range of collider physics and mining large amount of data on distributed computing system.

His current interests includes Green Technology and Robotics. Whenever possible, Akira tries to enjoy being outside through activities such as cycling, bouldering, camping and listening to music.

Nishant Mathur is a Senior Associate in the Mumbai office of the Boston Consulting Group. He joined BCG in 2009, and the Strategy Institute in May 2011.

Prior to joining the Strategy Institute, Nishant's consulting work focused on strategy and operations for corporations in the public and private sectors in the financial, energy and industrial goods sector. He has worked on building long term strategy in the dynamic wind energy sector, defining the strategy for a development bank to engage with the private sector and providing financing to risky producer-backed SMEs.

Current topics of interest include exploring new way of business problem solving, looking at business strategy through a computational lens, understanding businesses as a complex biological system.

Prior to joining the firm, Nishant interned at Barclays Capital in its equity exotics trading desk in London.

Nishant received his MBA from Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad and was awarded an Industry Scholarship. He received his B.Tech and M.Tech from IIT Kharagpur, where he studied Biotechnology, and Mathematics & Computing as a minor degree.