Sectors:
Private EquityRachel Barton
Biography
Rachel advises business leaders on how they can transform and create new growth – moving at speed from Strategy to execution. Within Accenture, Rachel leads the Global Private Equity business, focused on maximising value creation and positive impact for PE Funds and their Portfolio companies. She does this through connecting together diligence, diagnostics, technology and BPO services so Accenture can partner with Private Equity Funds and their portfolio companies across the end to end deal lifecycle. Working cross sector, Rachel is a growth strategist by trade and is motivated by helping companies grow while creating positive societal and environmental impact.
Notably Rachel has co-authored ‘It’s Time to Re-Think Due Diligence’ and has headlined at Super Return and PEI Forum.
She is a regular contributor to the media, with appearances on BBC News 24, Sky News, CNN and CNBC, and press contributions in Real Deals, Reuters, The Times, The Guardian, The Economist, Critical Eye and Management Today. Rachel also leads Accenture Strategy’s Global Thought Leadership Council.
With a passion for social responsibility, Rachel sits on Accenture’s global Corporate Citizenship Council, is Chair for UnLtd, a charity investing in social entrepreneurs and is a Trustee for the King’s College Hospital Charity.
Rachel was listed in Management Today’s 35 Women Under 35 to Watch, the Women of the Future Awards and Red Magazine’s Women of the Year Awards and has been voted Most Inspirational Leader for Accenture UK.
Firm Overview
Accenture is a leading global professional services company that helps the world’s leading organizations build their digital core, optimize their operations, accelerate revenue growth, and enhance services—creating tangible value at speed and scale. It is a talent- and innovation-led company with 774,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Technology is at the core of change today, and Accenture is one of the world’s leaders in helping drive that change, with strong ecosystem relationships. The company combines its strength in technology and leadership in cloud, data, and AI with unmatched industry experience, functional expertise, and global delivery capability. Its broad range of services, solutions, and assets across Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Operations, Industry X, and Song, together with its culture of shared success and commitment to creating 360° value, enable it to help clients reinvent and build trusted, lasting relationships. Accenture measures its success by the 360° value it creates for its clients, employees, shareholders, partners, and communities.