Pierre Nanterme, who capped a 36-year career at the consulting firm now known as Accenture with an eight-year run as chief executive, greatly increasing its value and doubling its workforce to 469,000 employees, died on Jan. 31. Accenture confirmed his death but did not specify a cause or where he died. He received a diagnosis of colon cancer in 2016 and had stepped down as chief executive on Jan. 11, the company said. Under Mr. Nanterme, Accenture, a consulting giant that counts some of the world’s largest companies among its clients, spent over $6 billion to acquire more than 100 smaller firms, increasing in value by $70 billion. Mr. Nanterme’s strategy for fueling growth involved, among other things, creating divisions dedicated to what he called “the new”: digital, cloud-computing and security services.

Source: New York Times February 10, 2019 17:26 UTC