Gee leads Teneo’s U.S. Management Consulting business and is also the global lead of the Consumer and Economics practice at Teneo.
Gee specializes in advising on complex political, economic and consumer trends to inform commercial and operational strategies and direct broader opportunity analysis, especially in the context of major market disruption or rapid change. His team focusses on a wide range of topics and industries but focus on common questions on how traditional intangible factors such as politics, economics, culture and behavior impact the commercial performance of organizations. In this work, he has advised the world’s largest consumer businesses at the CEO level, as well as central government. More broadly, Gee supports these global businesses with transformative acquisitions and change.
From an industry perspective, Gee has deep expertise and experience in the hospitality and leisure sector having worked with the world’s largest hospitality brands at the CEO level on topics including economic risk, political and economic scenario planning, estate assessment and planning, business plan review and the future of the industry. Gee has also consulted for several of the world’s largest airlines on scenario and demand planning and was retained by multiple Governments and international lenders over the Covid-19 pandemic and European Cost of Living Crisis to advise on the bail-out and recapitalization of airlines.
In the Economics space, Gee and his team are regularly retained to conduct complex economic analysis in high profile situations. This includes economic impact assessments for multinational organizations and major Governments. The team recently supported on Nippon Steel’s landmark $14.1 billion partnership with United States Steel Corporation and have historically advised the UK Treasury.
Gee is a former NASDAQ CEO (Presto Automation, #PRST) and holds an MA (hons) in Philosophy, Psychology, and Physiology from the University of Oxford.
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