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Richard Lesser (born 1962), former BCG Chairman for North and South America, began his term as President and Chief Executive Officer of The Boston Consulting Group (BCG) in January of 2013.

Career
Lesser holds an MBA from Harvard Business School, where he was a Baker Scholar, and earned a bachelor's degree summa cum laude in chemical engineering from the University of Michigan. He grew up in Pittsburgh, PA and attended Taylor Allderdice High School.

Prior to joining BCG, Lesser worked in product development as a process development engineer and group leader at Procter & Gamble.

In 1988, Lesser joined BCG. His client work at BCG has focused on innovation, strategy, and large-scale transformation in the health care and consumer sectors. In 2000, Lesser became head of BCG's New York office, and in 2009, he was appointed to the position of Chairman of North and South America. Lesser was named one of the industry's "most influential consultants" in 2009 by Consulting Magazine.

In 2013, Lesser participated in the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting session, "China 2020: Vision Meets Reality." He has authored several publications on topics such as e-health,  innovation, and the future of the global economy.

Quotes
"If people want a rubber stamp, that's not what we do. We work with leaders who sometimes have terrific hypotheses, and of course we take them seriously, but we don't view our role as the validators of management.

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