#7. Rudy Puryear, 49
President and CEO/Lante
His leap last year from Andersen Consulting to e-consultancy Lante instantly made him the profession's best-known poster child in the struggle to retain talent in the dot-com world.
But Rudy Puryear, who served as Andersen's top e-commerce partner, may have gained even greater notoriety earlier this year, when his pay package ballooned to $187 million following Lante's initial public offering. While there's no telling how many consultants may have begun re-evaluating career paths after Puryear's Big Five exit, the impact of his move was felt most at Lante, where a little-known consultancy with several prior lives suddenly had a leader able to articulate a vision and execute it.
In the coming year, Big Five managers will likely be looking to borrow a page from Lante's CEO as he seeks to establish the firm as an electronics markets specialist — a connector of electronics buyers and sellers.
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