Senior Associate – Marketing Strategy Finance
Emilio (Lin) Giralt has over 35 years work experience of which 25 years have been in consulting. He started his consulting career with McKinsey, Booz-Allen & Hamilton and ADLittle and founded Lambda Consultants in 1997.
His main focus is corporate strategy, organization, processes and financial evaluations for M&A and business planning. He has strong experience in the financial, IT, telecom, restaurant-tourism and Oil and Gas sectors. He is an expert in new business development and evaluatoins, market entry and establishment of business models for new businesses. He has significant experience in logistics, having redesigned fresh product logistics for a supermarket chain and package handling processes for a medium sized freight handler. In a recent financial evaluation project, Lin evaluated various new investments in fixed assets and Buy vs Rent alternatives for PDVSA Naval totaling over USD 3,000 MM in investments. Prior to consulting he worked as a construction manager (4 years) completing various commercial buildings in USA and Venezuela, he also worked in agribusiness (6 years), building and helping the start up of a meatpacking plant and a mixed use farm raising cattle and hot peppers.
He holds a B.A. from Duke University (1977), a Master of Architecture from Rice University (1982), and an M.B.A. from The Wharton School of The University of Pennsylvania (1992). He is fluent in English and Spanish and has a knowledge of basic German and Portuguese. Since 2011 he has been an Adjunct Lecturer at Rice’s MBA program and has taught undergraduate Business Administration courses at UH/Downtown, and Dali, Wuhan and Fudan Universities in China.