Robert Gunn
Partner, Princeton, NJ

Robert has built successful businesses while advising clients how to do the same. Before co-founding Accompli, he was Senior Vice President for Exult, Inc., the innovator and market leader in HR-led Business Process Outsourcing (BPO), having sold to Exult the eponymous consulting firm he co-founded.

Helping executives at Global 500 companies improve the effectiveness and value of Finance, HR, Marketing, and other staff functions, Gunn Partners was known for expertise in Shared Services and worked with many of its early adopters. In addition, Bob was the originator of "Lean Consulting," an approach based on facilitating clients' leadership of their own change efforts with limited external resources. "Lean Consulting" applies the lean "Six Sigma" tool kit and results in exceptionally high implementation success and rates of return on transformation.

Bob has co-authored a book - On the High Wire: How To Survive Being Promoted (Praeger Publishers, 2005) - and writes a monthly column on leadership for Strategic Finance magazine. He serves on the Board of Directors of Equitant, a business process outsourcing firm; is an Advisory Board Member of the Brussels-based Shared Services Business Process Outsourcing Association; and he is a member of the Visiting Committee for the West Virginia University School of Medicine. He was named one of HRO Today's "HRO (human resource outsourcing) Superstars" in January 2005.

Representative clients: Cardinal Health, Diageo, Dow, DuPont, GE, HP, J&J, Kraft, Merck, New York Life, Reuters, Siemens.