Marc Booth joins PA Consulting as a Partner in its Consumer and Manufacturing practice

Marc Booth has joined PA Consulting, the company that’s bringing ingenuity to life, as a partner in its consumer and manufacturing team, where he will focus on strengthening its mechanical engineering offering, part of PA’s wider Design, Engineering, and Science capabilities.

Marc brings with him over 25 years’ experience across the technology sector, delivering high-level automation and production solutions for technology companies including Siemens Digital Industries. During his career, Marc has also been responsible for developing the UK Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) strategy.

Marc joins PA from Schmalz UK, where he was the managing director of the robotic end of arm tooling and automation.

Tracey Countryman, Global Head of Consumer and Manufacturing at PA, says: “I am delighted to welcome Marc to our team. With his depth and breadth of industry and technical knowledge, he will be an invaluable asset to help us meet our business goals, expanding our mechanical engineering offering to open more doors within consumer goods and manufacturing and with our clients in other sectors.”

Marc says: “I am excited to be joining a company that I think is truly innovative. PA’s purpose of ‘bringing ingenuity to life’ with clients, along with the domain expertise and people knowhow, creates a unique value proposition and I look forward to contributing to this purpose alongside an exceptional team.”

PA’s consumer and manufacturing experts help industry-leading global clients create innovative and sustainable solutions, reinvent manufacturing processes and develop smart, connected supply chains. Their capabilities extend from market insight and taking products from creative design through development and launch, to finding new ways to connect brands with consumers.