Day: May 3, 2022

With the acquisition of S4G, McKinsey brings the best of strategy, design, and analytical horsepower together with rapid Salesforce CRM implementation capabilities to help clients ignite growth

NEW YORK and MADRID, Spain, May 03, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — McKinsey & Company announced today it has acquired Madrid-based S4G Consulting. As a top Salesforce Platinum Partner, S4G specializes in helping companies of all sizes extend the power of Salesforce’s customer relationship management (CRM) platform to improve customer outcomes.

B2B digital commerce is undergoing a major transformation as buyers have flexed to remote and digital ways of engaging. Today’s buyers surf ten-plus channels before making a single purchase, and they want convenient, seamless, omnichannel interactions. Now companies can anticipate and meet those needs at every stage of the customer life cycle, achieving analytics-led sales acceleration, omnichannel and e-commerce transformation, and sales productivity enhancements.

With the acquisition of S4G, McKinsey adds rapid Salesforce CRM implementation capabilities to the very best of strategy, design, and analytical horsepower. S4G’s Salesforce CRM technology expertise, combined with McKinsey’s growth offerings, will enable companies to accelerate end-to-end growth transformations.

Next era of growth will be tech-forward
Companies can use predictive and prescriptive analytics and AI-powered capabilities to make data-led decisions that help them consistently delight their customers, improve performance, and unlock growth.

“We are relentlessly focused on helping our clients achieve their growth aspirations,” said Greg Kelly, senior partner and global leader of McKinsey & Company’s Growth, Marketing & Sales Practice. “Our clients have told us they need greater support that extends through making their technology seamlessly support their growth efforts. With this acquisition, we are doing just that by bringing together world-class Salesforce experts, industry-leading technology, accelerators, and analytics to enable our clients to capture customer value and growth using real-time information.”

Kelly continued: “We are thrilled to welcome our S4G colleagues to the firm, and we look forward to the great work we will do together to better serve our clients.”

Accelerate growth at speed and scale
“McKinsey is the world’s leading impact partner for businesses looking to consistently delight customers and accelerate growth,” said Javier Heitz, CEO and founder of S4G. “They are distinctive in developing multiyear transformation strategies fused with design, analytics, and implementation capabilities as well as accelerating commercial performance. We are proud to be joining McKinsey to help clients shape the future of sales and marketing through rapid growth transformation strategies.”

Alongside McKinsey’s strength in capability building, S4G brings a people-driven and client-centric culture that closely aligns with McKinsey’s.

“The acquisition of S4G is the latest example of McKinsey’s renewed focus on deepening our capabilities through active M&A to accelerate and scale impact for our clients,” said Peter Dahlstrom, senior partner and global leader of McKinsey’s Alliances and Acquisitions. “S4G will enable us to expand our tech-enabled offerings to help organizations deploy and scale end-to-end growth transformations and further deepen our collaboration with Salesforce as part of McKinsey’s open ecosystem of trusted collaborators.”

About McKinsey & Company
McKinsey & Company is a global management consulting firm committed to helping organizations realize sustainable, inclusive growth. We work with clients across the private, public, and social sectors to solve complex problems and create positive change for all of our stakeholders. We combine bold strategies and transformative technologies to help organizations innovate more sustainably, achieve lasting gains in performance, and build workforces that will thrive for in this generation and the next.

About McKinsey Growth, Marketing & Sales
The mission of the McKinsey Growth, Marketing & Sales Practice is to help leaders of both consumer and business-to-business clients create Growth That Matters through meaningful transformations and marketing-driven profit. The practice helps our clients set their strategic direction, develop their marketing and sales capabilities, and connect their organization to realize the full potential of today’s omnichannel opportunities. Clients benefit from McKinsey’s experience in core areas of marketing, B2B and B2C pricing, customer experience, and sales and channel management.

About S4G Consulting
S4G Consulting, a Salesforce Platinum Partner with offices in Spain, offers best-in-class Salesforce consulting services for companies across all industries. Founded in 2008, it was one of the first Salesforce Partners in EMEA and has worked with hundreds of companies over the years. In 2018, it was ranked as one of the Top 10 Global Salesforce Platinum Partners by customer rating, reflecting its focus on excellence, which is one of the company’s core values. Today the company has more than 150 employees spread across three offices and over 400 Salesforce certifications.

For more information, please contact
US: MaryLiz Ghanem, DiGennaro Communications – McKinsey-DiGennaro@digennaro-usa.com / +1 917 518 8422
UK: Ruth Jones, 3THINKRS – mckinsey@3thinkrs.com / +44 0208 0872843
Iberia: Gosia G Pajkowska, Gosia_G_Pajkowska@McKinsey.com / +34680489878

QUEBEC, May 03, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — LeddarTech^®, a global leader in providing the most flexible, robust and accurate ADAS and AD sensing technology, is pleased to announce its Gold Sponsorship of EcoMotion Week 2022, where the company will demonstrate its technology and LeddarTech’s President and COO, Frantz Saintellemy, will deliver a keynote presentation.

“EcoMotion is a significant mobility event held yearly in Israel, and LeddarTech is proud to be a key contributor,” stated Charles Boulanger, CEO of LeddarTech. “The event recognizes innovative technology companies and is supported by industry sponsors, such as LeddarTech, the Israel Innovation Institute, the Israel Prime Minister’s Office Smart Mobility Initiative and the Ministry of Economy. Our Israel-based Sensor Fusion and Perception Development Center team and Frantz Saintellemy, LeddarTech’s President and COO, are excited to participate in this event and present our unique sensor fusion and perception platform and digital beam steering technology,” Mr. Boulanger concluded.

LeddarTech will be participating in the following events:

Main Stage: May 11, 12:15 p.m.

Keynote presentation by Frantz Saintellemy, LeddarTech President and COO – “Sensing and Perception Technology – Critical Challenges and Solutions for ADAS and AD”

The LeddarTech Tech Hub: May 11, 9:00 a.m.-6:00 p.m.

LeddarTech will be showcasing its groundbreaking innovations:

• LeddarVision™, the sensor fusion and perception solution for automotive and off-road industrial vehicles ADAS and autonomous driving applications developed for automotive Tier 1-2 suppliers and OEMs.
• LeddarSteer™, a new automotive-grade, customizable solid-state beam-steering technology for LiDAR manufacturers, Tier 1-2 suppliers and vision system developers.

About LeddarTech

Founded in 2007, LeddarTech is a comprehensive end-to-end environmental sensing company that enables customers to solve critical sensing, fusion and perception challenges across the entire value chain. LeddarTech provides cost-effective perception solutions scalable from Level 2 ADAS to Level 5 full autonomy with LeddarVision™, a raw-data sensor fusion and perception platform that generates a comprehensive 3D environmental model from a variety of sensor types and configurations. LeddarTech also supports LiDAR manufacturers and Tier 1-2 automotive suppliers with key technology building blocks such as LeddarSteer™ digital beam steering and the LeddarEngine™, which is built on LeddarTech’s Leddar™ technology employing patented signal acquisition and processing techniques to generate a richer and cleaner return signal at a lower cost. The LeddarEngine comprises a highly integrated, scalable LiDAR SoC and software combination that enables LiDAR developers and Tier 1-2 automotive suppliers to design their own LiDAR solutions. The company is responsible for several innovations in cutting-edge automotive and mobility remote-sensing applications, with over 120 patented technologies (granted or pending) enhancing ADAS and autonomous driving capabilities.

Additional information about LeddarTech is accessible at www.leddartech.com and on LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook and YouTube.

Contact:
Daniel Aitken, Vice-President, Global Marketing, Communications and Investor Relations, LeddarTech Inc.
Tel.: + 1-418-653-9000 ext. 232 daniel.aitken@leddartech.com

Investor relations contact: InvestorRelations@leddartech.com
https://investors.leddartech.com/

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Regina, SK, May 02, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — The International CCS Knowledge Centre has appointed James Millar to the position of President and Chief Executive Officer, effective May 24. A highly respected executive with deep experience in energy, industrial infrastructure, and public policy, Millar arrives at a critical inflection point in the development of carbon capture and storage technology in Canada and around the world.

“We need deep cuts in greenhouse gas emissions if we’re going to meet our ambitious climate goals over the next few decades,” Millar says. “Many global organizations including the International Energy Agency and the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change agree that without CCS the world cannot meet its emission reduction targets. I’m excited to lead this organization at a time when widespread investment and interest in CCS is scaling up.”

A native of Calgary, James Millar began his career in Saskatchewan, where he was a senior advisor in government before being appointed Director of Public Affairs for the Calgary Health Region. He transitioned to the energy industry, providing public affairs direction to TransCanada Corporation (now TC Energy) during planning and development of major infrastructure projects including the Keystone XL and Energy East pipelines. Most recently, he managed public affairs for Pieridae Energy, working on a $10-billion LNG project off Canada’s east coast, and Pieridae’s planned carbon capture initiative, to sequester three million tonnes of carbon dioxide annually.

With a mandate to advance the global understanding and deployment of large-scale CCS to reduce global GHG emissions, the International CCS Knowledge Centre provides the know-how to implement large-scale CCS projects as well as CCS optimization through the base learnings from both the fully-integrated Boundary Dam 3 CCS Facility and the comprehensive second-generation CCS study, known as the Shand CCS Feasibility Study. Our expertise crosses industries including cement, potash and natural gas combustion. Operating since 2016 under the direction of an independent board, the Knowledge Centre was established by BHP and SaskPower. With growing private and public investment in CCS, the Knowledge Centre is uniquely positioned to advise industries in Canada and around the world in planning, developing and managing this important technology. For more info: https://ccsknowledge.com/

Jill Sawyer
International CCS Knowledge Centre
+1-306-565-KNOW (5669)
jsawyer@ccsknowledge.com