BearingPoint, Inc., a Virginia-based management and technology consulting firm, has named Keith Burgess as the company’s chairman of Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA), a newly created position in the UK.
As chairman of EMEA, Burgess will work with Peter Mockler, BearingPoint’s new executive vice president of EMEA.
“As we continue to reenergize and redefine BearingPoint, we are extremely pleased to welcome someone as talented and experienced as Keith to our leadership team,” said Harry You, CEO at BearingPoint. “Throughout his impressive career, Keith has demonstrated a unique ability to impact organizations by immediately bringing to bear a wealth of experience and personal contacts developed over the course of his long and successful career.”
Burgess spent three decades at Accenture, a management consulting, technology services and outsourcing company, where he was most recently a managing partner.
Before his stint at Accenture, Burgess served as UK managing partner, responsible for the direction, operations and profitability of the UK practice.