Marc Schuuring
Managing Director & Senior Partner
Amsterdam
Marc Schuuring is a core member of Boston Consulting Group’s Technology Advantage and Consumer practices.
Marc has deep experience in technology-enabled strategies, transformation, and enterprise architecture. Since joining BCG in 2010, he has worked across numerous industries, with a primary focus on consumer goods, retail, and travel and transportation.
Marc helps companies attain competitive advantage through technology-enabled business models and processes, and assists organizations in providing world-class technology-enabled services. He specializes in helping boards navigate technology strategy, transformation, sourcing, organization, and performance. His current areas of focus are cloud strategies, digital transformation, enterprise information, and data architectures.
Before joining BCG, Marc worked as an executive partner for IT strategy and transformation at Accenture. During his time there, he set up and ran e-business IT at KLM Royal Dutch Airlines.
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