Marquis Parker is an Assistant Vice President of Global Strategy at Aon Consulting Worldwide, the human capital consulting division of Aon Corporation. The scope of his duties include mergers and acquisitions diligence and deal structuring, post-merger integration and management, revenue growth efforts, operational efficiency work, and internal strategic initiatives. He has experience in formulating strategies and analyzing mission critical issues for companies ranging from governmental and public sector entities to global private sector organizations. Throughout his career, he has acquired a broad set of educational and career experiences grounded in Business, Strategy, Technology, Private Equity, and Education.
Prior to joining Aon, Marquis developed his foundation of business, general management, and strategic skills through his work on critical issues in a range of industry and organizational contexts. After earning his MBA, Marquis worked for McKinsey & Company, the global management consultancy, as a Management Consultant in the firm’s Atlanta office. At McKinsey, he advised both private and public sector clients in the utilities, financial services, travel logistics, education, and petroleum sectors. As a generalist, his client engagements covered a wide range of topics, including post-merger management, strategic planning, organization design, budgeting, performance transformation, growth strategy, and capacity planning operations. Following McKinsey, Marquis joined Waterstone Management Group (a subsidiary of Waterstone Group Holdings), a Chicago-based strategic advisory and capital investment firm, where he advised portfolio companies of Private Equity firms in the Technology and Business Services industries.
Before completing his graduate studies, Marquis gained strategy consulting experience while completing an MBA summer internship in the Communications and High Tech industry area of Accenture’s Strategy Practice, where he developed a financial services market entry strategy for an enterprise software middleware product. During his pre-MBA career, he gained hands-on technology experience as a Java Software Engineer, first at Scient Corporation, an eBusiness consultancy, in NYC for two years followed by three years at FGM Inc, a software and systems engineering firm, in Reston, VA.
Marquis holds an A.B. in Computer Science from Princeton University, an M.B.A. and M.A. in Education from Stanford University, and a M.S. in Management of Information Technology from the University of Virginia.
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