Alasdair is a partner and managing director at Innosight, where he co-leads the Financial Services and Innovation Capabilities Practices. Alasdair specializes in developing growth strategies for organizations facing significant market change, and strengthening internal capabilities (typically via strategic planning, new operating models, new approaches to resource allocation, & culture transformation) within large complex organizations. He works with senior level teams of Fortune 500 companies, helping clients identify high potential growth opportunities, develop and incubate new business models & wrestle with the question, "how do I transform my organization to drive long-term growth?"
After joining Innosight in 2006, Alasdair moved to Singapore to help launch Innosight Ventures, where he focused on the investment and incubation of new growth businesses. In 2007 Alasdair co-founded COGSecure, an RFID inventory management company. In 2008, Alasdair returned to California, where he founded Guaranteach, an online video-based tutoring platform for the education market and raised funding from Innosight Ventures, The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the New Schools Venture Fund. Alasdair led Guaranteach as Chief Operating Officer from 2008 until 2010, when it was acquired by Sophia Learning, which was later acquired by Capella University.
Prior to joining Innosight, Alasdair lived and worked in a variety of countries around the world including the United Kingdom, Singapore, Zimbabwe and the United States. Prior to joining Innosight, Alasdair was a Business Manager with Capital One where he managed marketing strategy and led innovation efforts for one of Capital One's domestic credit card businesses.
Alasdair is a frequent speaker and lecturer on the subject of innovation & entrepreneurship, and has taught a variety of classes at Stanford's d:school, the NYU Stern MBA program and at Dartmouth's MBA program. He is also an advisor to the New Schools Venture Fund's Seed Fund and passionate about educational technology startups. Alasdair has a masters degree in Physics from the University of Oxford and an MBA with Distinction from the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth, where he was elected an Edward Tuck Scholar.
Available For: Consulting, Speaking
Travels From: Los Angeles, CA
Speaking Topics: Innovation
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