It's difficult to say whether Mitt Romney is still a consultant or not.
After serving ten years as CEO of venture capital firm Bain Capital Inc., and two years as president and CEO of the Salt Lake Organizing Committee for the Winter Olympics Games of 2002, conventional wisdom would tell us "no." But few can fault the profession for claiming the 54-year-old executive as one of its own.
Whether it's his success in rescuing the integrity of next winter's Olympics games, or his yet-to-be-satisfied government services ambitions (Romney lost a U.S. Senate bid to Ted Kennedy in 1994), Romney's roots will always be in consulting. Perhaps best known for leading the successful turnaround of Bain & Company in the early 1990s, Romney cut his teeth at the consulting firm after which he later named his venture capital firm. Next winter, as all parts of the world tune in to the Winter Games, there will be little doubt whose team Romney's on. In the end, the consulting profession will take home the gold.
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