Advisory Board Member Profile 2018
Roy Nicholson
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Grant Thorton LLP
Principal Advisory Services 
Areas of Expertise
AI & Machine Learning, Driving Innovation with Big Data
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Roy is a leader within Grant Thornton’s Business Consulting & Technology team with responsibility for helping the firm define its point of view on its Digital Transformation offerings and capabilities. These capabilities are focused on helping clients improve operational effectiveness, customer and employee engagement and innovate to bring new digitally enabled business models and services to market. He has responsibility for understanding client and market needs, defining and executing the strategy for the practice and successfully executing on P&L and growth metrics for the group.
In addition to his experience at Grant Thornton, Roy has 20+ years of business management, management consulting and technology experience with firms including EMC, IBM and PricewaterhouseCoopers. He has successfully fulfilled a broad range of roles during his career including Business Unit General Management, Professional Services Business Executive, Management Consulting Partner and Software Product Manager and has managed global organizations with $150m in revenue and 500+ team members. In his current role at Grant Thornton, Roy helps the organization and his clients explore opportunities for managing and governing data, and how to apply new and emerging technologies such as AI, Automation and Analytics to that data to drive operational insight and business innovation.
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