Arthur D. Little strengthens UK Aerospace and defense capabilities with appointment of Anirudh Suneel. London, may 28, 2026. Arthur D. Little (ADL) today announced the appointment of Anirudh Suneel as a Partner in its Automotive & Manufactured Goods (AMG) practice. With more than eleven years of management consulting experience, Anirudh will be based in ADL's London office, focusing on the aerospace, defense, private equity, and public sector markets, while helping to further strengthen and grow ADL's UK Aerospace & Defense business alongside the existing team. Anirudh joins from a global management consultancy, where he was the Director leading non-US defense and private equity activities, including the firm's strategic transformation service line and the overall UK entity. His previous experience spans a range of consultancies, where he has built and demonstrated end-to-end capabilities across strategy, M&A, operating model design, and transformation. Bernd Schreiber, Managing Partner at ADL, comments: "The aerospace and defense industries are undergoing rapid transformation and facing significant disruption, creating significant demand for strategic advisory support to help organizations navigate increasingly complex challenges. Anirudh's strong delivery track record, deep client relationships, and proven leadership capabilities make him an excellent addition to our team as we continue to grow our UK and global Aerospace & Defense business." Anirudh Suneel, Partner at ADL, adds: "My background and experience align closely with ADL's capabilities and entrepreneurial culture, making this a natural next step in my career. Together with the existing team, I look forward to accelerating our growth and expanding the support we provide to clients across the aerospace and defense sectors. The UK and global aerospace and defense market is at a pivotal moment, with organizations facing critical decisions around growth, competitiveness, and transformation. I am excited to join a firm whose complementary capabilities and strong industry as well as innovation heritage will enable me to better support both existing and future clients as they navigate this evolving landscape." Anirudh holds both an MBA and a Master's degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Warwick, UK.

Industrility and Arthur D. Little demonstrates ai-driven maintenance intelligence for Asset-Intensive Industries. Industrility's AI-Powered Aftermarket Platform is setting a new benchmark for maintenance intelligence in asset-intensive industries, with production-validated results across complex technical documentation at scale. In a recent collaboration with Arthur D. Little (ADL), Industrility demonstrated how its Agentic AI Platform can accelerate the extraction, structuring, and use of maintenance knowledge from dense OEM documentation, reducing manual analysis time from days to hours while dramatically improving the quality and completeness of maintenance task identification. Industrility's platform deploys purpose-built Industrial AI Agents, DocAgent for document intelligence and TwinAgent for machine-level reasoning, forming a complete maintenance intelligence engine. Together, they ingest hundreds of pages of OEM documentation, identify maintenance tasks regardless of location or language, link knowledge across multiple vendor sources, and surface condition-based and environmental triggers that manual processes routinely miss. An example of Business Outcomes created through Industrility's Platform: 2 Power Plants, 121 Documents, 48,400 Pages - 160x faster processing - 92% extraction accuracy - 469% more maintenance activities identified - 94% cost reduction - 99%+ reliability across 54,630 Google Gemini API calls The platform's SOC 2 Type II certification meets the rigorous security, availability, and confidentiality standards required for critical national infrastructure, essential for utility operators handling sensitive OEM documentation and operational asset data. Industrility was also recognized by Google Cloud among the startups building the agentic future, further validating its technical leadership at scale. What This Means for Asset-Intensive Industries Power utilities were the starting point, but the implications stretch across any sector where assets are complex, documentation is dense, uptime is critical and the cost of missed maintenance is high. Oil and gas, mining, rail, chemical, utilities, pharmaceutical industries and manufacturing: the challenge is the same. Embedded AI in maintenance is used as an operational tool delivering measurable outcomes improving safer, reliable, sustainable and efficient production environments today. "Industrial companies are looking for pragmatic ways to use AI in core operations. Combining domain expertise with the right technology can help turn fragmented technical information into actionable maintenance insight and support better planning and execution." "This work demonstrates the potential of applying purpose built Industrial AI to complex industrial documentation and maintenance environments. Together with ADL, we are demonstrating how these capabilities can support more efficient, reliable and scalable maintenance processes." About Industrility Industrility is a Seattle-based technology leader with deep roots in industrial operations and decades of domain expertise. Industrility Software Incorporated partner with Industrial OEMs to accelerate their transformation from product-centric manufacturers to service-driven enterprises. Leveraging cutting-edge Software, Data, and AI, Industrility Software Incorporated help its clients drive operational excellence, enhance customer satisfaction, and unlock new revenue streams through innovative models like Equipment-as-a-Service (EaaS). Its team brings together a unique blend of industrial know-how and digital innovation, enabling scalable, secure, and future-ready solutions. With a firm commitment to data security and privacy, Industrility is proud to be SOC 2 compliant. Learn more at www.industrility.com. About Arthur D. Little Arthur D. Little is the world's original management consulting firm, founded in 1886, linking strategy, innovation, and transformation across complex, technology-driven industries. With around 1,700 professionals across more than 50 offices globally, Arthur D. Little serves clients in major business centers worldwide. Learn more at www.adlittle.com.