Hugo Melgarejo is a consulting industry veteran with 20 years of experience in designing and implementing performance improvement initiatives in Fortune 1000 and Global 1000 companies. After serving as President of Proudfoot Consulting, Melgarejo left the firm to join The Highland Group in 2009 as Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director, Americas. Under his leadership, the strategy and operations firm has tripled in size and opened offices in Brazil, Chile, and Canada, among others. "It is amazing and very exciting to see what is happening in the organization, but it's also a big challenge," he says. Melgarejo sat down with Consulting One on One to talk about The Highland Group, its growth and its strategy and some of those challenges going forward.
Consulting: Since you took over, The Highland Group has been growing like gangbusters. Why is that?
