Laila Worrell
Laila Worrell is an American business executive who serves as chief executive officer of Altran Americas, the New York City-based North America division of Altran, the global leader in engineering and R&D services. Capgemini acquired Altran in April 2020.[1]
As CEO of Altran Americas, she leads a nearly billion-dollar business that includes frog design, one of the world's leading design and innovation firms. She has been named one of the Top 10 Tech Services CEOs of 2019[2] and 2020[3], and one of Consulting magazine's inaugural Women Leaders in Consulting in the category of Excellence in Innovation.[4]
Before her appointment as CEO in July 2018, Worrell served as COO and then Deputy CEO of the company, then known as Aricent. She played a significant role in its successful sale to Altran by private equity firm KKR in March 2018. She joined Aricent after advising the company as a Partner and Managing Director in the Boston Consulting Group’s Principal Investing and Private Equity practice.[4]
Prior to BCG, Worrell spent 17 years in progressive leadership roles at Accenture. Most recently, she led Accenture’s then-$2 billion business in New York Metro, the company’s largest region globally. She also led Growth and Strategy for Accenture’s then-$13 billion North American business, and she was appointed to the company’s CEO Advisory Council, a team of high-performing senior executives who provided strategic insights and counsel to the company’s then-CEO, Pierre Nanterme.
Worrell has had a longstanding focus on innovation as a driver of corporate and economic competitiveness. She helped launch the FinTech Innovation Lab, jointly with the Partnership for New York City, designed to catalyze innovation in areas including data, analytics and mobility.
She has also partnered with the US Competitiveness Initiative led by Harvard Business School’s Michael Porter. She coauthored the reports Bridging the Gap: Rebuilding America’s Middle Skills and Finding the Middle: How Businesses Can Manage Talent Pipeline. Her work in corporate strategy was cited by Professors Porter and Rivkin in the bestselling HBS Case Matching Dell.
Outside of work, Worrell has a strong record of civic and philanthropic leadership. She is the former board chair of Susan G. Komen Foundation of Greater New York, and serves on the boards of Harvard Business School Club of New York City, the Women’s Leadership Board at Harvard University’s Kennedy School, the American Museum of Natural History Advisory Council and the Leadership Committee at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts. She was elected a David Rockefeller Fellow by the Partnership for New York City, a prestigious program that recognizes exceptional public-private leadership.
Worrell holds an MBA from Harvard University and a BA from the University of Texas at Austin.
References
- ↑ TECHNOLOGIES, ALTRAN (2020-04-02). "Altran reaches a new milestone in its development by becoming part of Capgemini Group". GlobeNewswire News Room. Retrieved 2020-10-20.
- ↑ admin. "Top 50 Tech Services CEOs of 2019 | The Software Report". Retrieved 2020-10-20.
- ↑ jirehl. "Top 50 Tech Services CEOs of 2020 | The Software Report". Retrieved 2020-10-20.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 "The 2020 Women Leaders in Technology: Laila Worrell". Consultingmag.com. Retrieved 2020-10-20.
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