Full-Time
Posted on 9/9/2026
Turnaround, growth, and risk management consulting
$50k - $120k/yr
No H1B Sponsorship
Atlanta, GA, USA
In Person
Less than 10% travel is required.
US Citizenship Required
Bachelor's
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1) What the company does: Ankura provides tailored consulting services in turnaround and restructuring advisory, growth advisory, and risk management for a diverse set of clients, helping them address challenges, grow value, and protect against risks. 2) How the product works: The firm assembles a customized team of former C-level executives and industry specialists to develop and execute client-specific strategies. Engagements are collaborative, with teams working closely with clients; fees are based on project scope, complexity, and expertise required. 3) How it differs from competitors: Ankura emphasizes a flexible, problem-solving approach using a carefully assembled mix of expert professionals and technology-enabled processes, delivering bespoke solutions rather than one-size-fits-all services. 4) What the company’s goal is: To help businesses navigate challenges, grow sustainably, and manage risks by providing expert, customized guidance and execution.
Company Size
1,001-5,000
Company Stage
Debt Financing
Total Funding
$810M
Headquarters
New York City, New York
Founded
2006
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Ankura Consulting Group has appointed Joanne Taylor as chief operating officer. Taylor will lead global operations and oversee the firm's day-to-day activities, focusing on performance and profitability whilst building operational infrastructure for efficient scaling. Taylor brings over 25 years of experience advising boards, private equity sponsors, and executive teams. Her expertise includes business transformation, operating-model design, and operational excellence. At Ankura, she will work to integrate the firm's businesses, expand AI use across operating functions, and establish consistency across markets and service lines. Prior to joining Ankura, Taylor held senior leadership roles in global consulting, technology, and services organisations. She holds an MBA from Baylor University. Ankura is a global consulting and expert advisory firm with more than 2,000 professionals serving 3,000-plus clients worldwide.
Ankura appoints Joanne Taylor as chief operating officer. 26 August 2026 Consulting.us Ankura, a New York-headquartered expert services and advisory firm, has appointed Joanne Taylor as chief operating officer. Based in the firm's headquarters, Taylor brings more than 30 years of experience in professional and business services - with expertise across strategy, operations, business transformation, and building high-performance teams. As COO, Taylor will oversee Ankura's global corporate functions - finance, operations, it, risk management, and real estate and workplace services, including the firm's business services center in India - supporting the firm's ambition to double in size. She joins from AlixPartners, where she spent more than six years and was a partner and managing director and co-leader of the global business transformation and Americas strategy and analysis practices. At the consultancy, Taylor worked with clients on large-scale transformations to drive revenue, margin expansion, and capital efficiency. Before that, Taylor spent 13 years with human capital management (HCM) firm ADP, where she served as division vice president and general manager of the upmarket HCM outsourcing business (HR, payroll, benefits, workforce planning, and talent acquisition). In the role, she led 1,500 people across $450 million in P&L responsibility. Earlier in her career, Taylor worked at IBM and PwC. She has an MBA from Baylor University and a bachelor's degree in business and marketing from Graceland University. "I'm honored to join Ankura at such a pivotal moment and look forward to working with the team to strengthen how the firm operates, to connect our businesses, and to build the modern, technology- and data-driven corporate services that will help Ankura scale with discipline," Taylor said. Ankura has more than 2,000 professionals across 35+ global locations. The firm delivers advisory services in turnaround, finance, operations, risk and disputes, investigations, talent, data, and AI. Ankura earlier this year launched a managed services offering for financial crime compliance operations.
Ankura strengthens Financial Services practice with senior hire Shariq Nazim. 20 August 2026 Consultancy-me.com Ankura has strengthened its Financial Services practice in the region with the hire of Shariq Nazim, who has been appointed as a Senior Managing Director. Based in the firm's Riyadh office, Nazim brings more than 25 years of experience in financial services and digital banking across the Gulf region. He joins the firm from Accenture, where he was a Managing Director and is credited with expanding its digital banking advisory capability through a successful go-to-market approach that helped to substantially grow the client pipeline. Before that, he held executive roles at banking institutions Aion Digital, where he served as Chief Technology and Growth Officer, and Gulf Bank, where he was Head of Strategy & Digital Transformation. At Ankura, he will advise banking and financial institutions at the executive level on topics including core banking transformation, digital strategy, and large-scale modernisation programmes across both 'Build the Bank' and 'Transform the Bank' environments. "I'm excited to be joining Ankura - a place where culture isn't just a value on a wall, it's how the team actually operates. I'm looking forward to building out the Financial Services practice across the GCC alongside such a talented team. My main area of focus will be helping banking executives modernise faster and make better technology decisions by delivering transformation that creates long-term value." Nazim maintains long-standing relationships with senior executives at leading GCC financial institutions, including executives at the CEO and CIO levels at banks in Riyadh, Qatar, Bahrain, Oman, and the United Arab Emirates. "We're pleased to welcome Shariq to Ankura. He has a deep understanding of both business strategy and technology implementation, combined with extensive experience working alongside leading banking and cloud technology providers," said Ankura of its latest hire in the region. Earlier in his career, Nazim spent over fifteen years in the UK, working at Big Four firm EY in its consulting arm and for Lloyds Bank and HBL.
Vertex hires Chad Paulin as AI strategy officer. 01 July 2026 Consulting.us The Vertex Companies, a New York-headquartered management consulting firm, has hired Chad Paulin as AI strategy officer, effective August 2026. Based in Atlanta, Paulin will develop Vertex's AI strategy and will work clients to address their project needs. "As AI continues to rapidly evolve and its full capabilities are uncovered, it's crucial Vertex is developing and executing a strategy for our firm and our clients," said Mary Beth Edwards, chief commercial officer and head of global business, Vertex. "While we have already integrated AI into some of our technology, Vertex will benefit from having Chad's creative, strategic mindset on our leadership team helping to propel us forward." Paulin has more 25 years of experience in litigation consulting, with a focus on illustrations and visualizations for life sciences sector disputes. A scientific and medical illustrator, Paulin has deep expertise supporting corporate and legal firm clients with medical illustration and animation, code-based data visualization, 3D illustration, and interactive multimedia. He has assisted litigation clients across matters including pharmaceutical product liability, medical malpractice, toxic tort, insurance, antitrust, breach of contract, and environmental issues. Paulin has helped develop several proprietary tools for visual communication and litigation presentation, and has a patent pending as sole inventor on a unique data visualization platform. "Not only is Chad a proven leader, but he is also a true innovator in the consulting industry with experience creating tools and solutions with meaningful impacts for clients," Edwards added. Paulin joins from Ankura, where he was a founding partner and a senior managing director in the disputes and economics group. Before Ankura, he spent nine years at FTI Consulting, where he was a managing director. Earlier in his career, Paulin was a graphics technology manager at TrialGraphix. Paulin has a bachelor's degree in scientific illustration from the University of Georgia. Vertex was founded in 1995 and has more than 900 people across the US, Canada, UK, Qatar, and UAE. The firm provides strategic advisory, project management, and dispute resolution services to law firms and clients in construction, real estate, aviation, manufacturing, energy, and government. Vertex has practices in technical claims and disputes, dispute and expert witness services, compliance and regulatory, risk assessment and loss control, and project advisory.
Ankura expands its Middle East footprint with dedicated Financial Services Advisory practice. Global expert services and advisory firm Ankura has formally announced the launch of its Financial Services Advisory practice in the Middle East, marking a significant expansion of its regional capabilities as demand for high-calibre financial advisory services across the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) continues to grow. The move comes after several months of deliberate senior-level hiring across Ankura's Dubai and Riyadh offices - a build-up that had drawn considerable attention within the regional consulting market before the formal announcement was made. A Practice Built on Senior Talent The new Financial Services Advisory practice is led by Zeeshan Idris Khwaja, Senior Managing Director, who is based at Ankura's Dubai office in the Index Tower, DIFC. Khwaja, who serves as EMEA Head of Financial Services Advisory, brings deep expertise in business strategy, C-suite advisory, and central bank engagement across emerging and developed markets. Alongside Khwaja, the practice is supported by a team of seasoned professionals assembled in recent months, including Adil Khan, Kabeer Paliwalla, Salah Hamawi, and Sami Roumani - each bringing specialised capabilities that collectively position the practice to address a wide range of client needs across the financial services landscape. "Our new Financial Services Advisory practice in the Middle East is focused on helping clients translate strategy into measurable outcomes - driving growth, enabling transformation, and delivering sustained performance," Khwaja said in a statement. "The GCC's financial services sector is at an inflection point, and we are here to help institutions navigate that complexity with clarity and confidence." What the Practice Offers The Financial Services Advisory practice is designed to serve banks, insurers, asset managers, capital markets participants, and financial regulators operating in the Middle East. Its service lines span: * Strategy and growth advisory - helping institutions define and execute market expansion, product innovation, and competitive positioning strategies * Transformation and performance improvement - supporting operational overhauls, digital enablement, and organisational redesign * Risk, compliance, and regulatory advisory - guiding clients through evolving regulatory frameworks, including those aligned with the UAE Central Bank and Saudi Arabia's Vision 2030 financial sector reform agenda * Financial crime compliance - building on Ankura's broader managed services capabilities in anti-money laundering (AML), know-your-customer (KYC), and sanctions compliance The practice will operate across the firm's established Middle East offices in Dubai and Riyadh, with access to Ankura's global network of experts across the United States, United Kingdom, Europe, Asia-Pacific, and beyond. A Region Ripe for Advisory Growth The timing of Ankura's launch reflects broader dynamics reshaping the Middle East's financial services sector. The UAE and Saudi Arabia are both executing ambitious economic diversification programmes - the UAE's Cosmopolitan The Daily the UAE 2031 vision and Saudi Arabia's Vision 2030 - that are fundamentally restructuring the role of financial institutions in supporting growth, foreign investment, and capital market development. Regional banks are under increasing pressure to modernise their operating models, adopt digital and AI-enabled capabilities, and meet heightened regulatory expectations. Meanwhile, the expansion of sovereign wealth fund activity, private equity deal flow, and cross-border capital movements is generating sustained demand for sophisticated advisory services. For Ankura, which has been building its Middle East presence steadily since establishing offices in Dubai and Riyadh, the formal launch of a dedicated financial services vertical represents a clear signal of strategic intent in one of the world's fastest-growing advisory markets. Ankura's Broader Middle East Trajectory This latest launch follows a pattern of disciplined capability-building in the region. In 2023, Ankura launched a dedicated Turnaround & Restructuring practice in the Middle East, led by Senior Managing Directors Karim Labban and D. Geraint Thomas - a practice established to support clients navigating financial distress, complex restructurings, and balance sheet challenges. The firm has also continued to invest in its financial crime compliance capabilities, recently announcing managed services offerings designed to help financial institutions scale their compliance operations efficiently and cost-effectively. Taken together, these moves reflect Ankura's broader ambition to establish itself as a full-service advisory partner for financial institutions operating in - and entering - the Gulf market. Ankura Consulting Group, LLC is a global expert services and advisory firm headquartered in the United States, with offices across North America, Europe, Asia-Pacific, and the Middle East. The firm provides a broad range of specialised advisory services spanning disputes and investigations, cybersecurity and data privacy, forensics, governance, finance, risk and compliance, digital transformation, operations, and turnaround and restructuring. Ankura serves clients across a wide range of industries, with financial services among its core verticals. In the Middle East, the firm operates through its offices in Dubai and Riyadh, serving financial institutions, government entities, corporates, and private equity clients throughout the GCC. 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