Mehrdad Baghai is managing director of Alchemy Growth Partners, a boutique advisory and venture firm based in Sydney. Mehrdad advises large companies on their growth strategies and business building initiatives. He is coauthor of the international bestsellers The Alchemy of Growth and The Granularity of Growth. Previously, he was a partner in the Sydney and Toronto offices of McKinsey and Company and coleader of the firm’s worldwide Growth Practice. He is also the founder of the High Resolves Initiative, a community service project around global citizenship, which has reached more than 10,000 high-school students. Mehrdad is a Henry Crown Fellow at the Aspen Institute. Mehrdad received a BSE with highest honors in electrical engineering and computer science from Princeton University, where he also completed a joint degree on public policy at the Woodrow Wilson School. He continued his education in public policy at Harvard where he completed an MPP as a Kennedy Fellow at the Kennedy School of Government and a JD with high honors at Harvard Law School.
James Quigley is chief executive officer of Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Limited. Prior to his current role, he was the CEO of Deloitte LLP in the United States. Throughout his 36 years with the organization, Quigley took on a number of leadership roles and built a distinguished track record of service to many multinational clients.Quigley is actively engaged in a number of international business organizations and committees, each working to help shape the policies for a successful and sustainable global economy. He is US cochairman of the TransAtlantic Business Dialogue, and a member of the board of trustees of the US Council for International Business and the German Marshall Fund of the United States. He is also a member of the Council on Competitiveness, the Shanghai International Financial Advisory Council, and the Yale CELI Board of Advisors. He has also served on the US Securities and Exchange Commission Advisory Committee on Improvements to Financial Reporting.Jim received his bachelor of science degree and an honorary doctorate of business from Utah State University. He was awarded an honorary degree of doctor of commercial science from Bentley College in Waltham, Massachusetts.
