Team
The partners who answer for the work
Twenty-eight consultants across three offices, led by six partners. Each partner carries engagements personally, which is the reason we cap how many run at once.
- 28
- Consultants
- 11 yrs
- Median partner tenure
Adaeze Okonjo
Managing Partner · Corporate Strategy
Leads the firm and its strategy practice. Seventeen years advising boards on portfolio and market-entry decisions, with particular depth in family-held industrial groups moving to professional management.
Sectors carried
- Industrial
- Consumer goods
- Private equity
Rafael Duarte
Partner · Operating Performance
Runs cost-to-serve and throughput programmes across multi-site operations. Previously plant director for a components manufacturer, which is why his plans are written for line managers.
Sectors carried
- Manufacturing
- Logistics
- Energy
Marta Lindqvist
Partner · Transaction Advisory
Commercial diligence and integration for acquirers and their lenders. Has led diligence on 63 transactions and been retained post-close on 21 of them.
Sectors carried
- Private equity
- Healthcare
- Software
Tobias Renner
Partner · Technology & Data
Platform economics, data architecture and automation cases. Assesses estates on run cost and payback, and has advised against migration on roughly a third of the engagements he has scoped.
Sectors carried
- Software
- Financial services
- Retail
Priyanka Menon
Partner · Organisation Design
Operating models after mergers, spin-offs and leadership change. Starts from the decisions an organisation has to make and works back to the structure that lets it make them.
Sectors carried
- Healthcare
- Industrial
- Public sector
Callum Reyes
Partner · Risk & Regulation
Regulatory change programmes for lenders, insurers and clinical networks. Formerly a supervisor at a national financial regulator, which shapes how his evidence packs are built.
Sectors carried
- Financial services
- Insurance
- Healthcare
The firm
Small enough that the partner is in the room
Pinnacle was founded in Chicago in 2009 by three partners who had spent a decade inside large strategy houses and were tired of selling work that a different team then delivered. The arrangement here has not changed since: the partner who scopes the engagement runs it, and there is no second bench to hand it to.
Twenty-eight consultants, three offices, and a deliberate ceiling on how many engagements run at once. We turn down roughly one in three approaches, usually because the question is already answered inside the client and what is missing is the decision rather than the analysis.
- A named partner on the work every week, not at the readout
- Fixed fee agreed before the engagement letter is signed
- Findings shared as they emerge, never held back for a final deck
- Implementation support included for ninety days after handover
Why Pinnacle
What a client notices in the first fortnight
Four commitments we have made in writing since 2009, and still keep.
- 01
A fixed fee, agreed first
Scope and price are settled before work starts. If the question changes, we re-scope in writing rather than raising a variation at the end.
- 02
Numbers you can audit
Every figure in a Pinnacle deliverable traces to a source your finance team can open. The model ships with the report.
- 03
Built to be handed over
The plan is written for the manager who has to run it on Monday, and we stay available for ninety days while they do.
- 04
One team across three offices
Chicago, Toronto and London share a single engagement record. Nothing is re-explained because the work crossed a border.
Next step
One conversation is usually enough to know
Forty-five minutes with a partner, no charge and no proposal attached. If we are not the right firm we will say so and suggest who is.