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Simon Rees leads Boston Consulting Group’s Corporate Finance & Strategy practice in the Great Lakes region of North America. Simon works with both public and private sector clients on a wide range of business and enterprise level strategic issues. He is a member of the Industrial Goods practice leadership team where he is the lead for greentech, machinery, and automation in North America. In addition, he helps drive the firm’s work in industrial services, and has a leadership role within the BCG Center for Climate & Sustainability.

Simon works with clients from all types of industrial goods companies, including the adjacent medical devices space and the public sector. He has particularly deep expertise with machinery clients, including those in the automotive, off-highway, aerospace, industrial automation, and building technology industries, as well as general machinery and components. He is also experienced in building materials, chemicals, and industrial distribution.

Simon’s work covers, among other things, business, corporate, and public enterprise strategy, transactions, large-scale transformations, marketing/sales/pricing, and operations. He has particularly deep expertise in industrial services and digital transformation.

Simon is co-leader of BCG's Pride Network. Prior to joining BCG, he worked in investment banking, managing M&A activities for a set of infrastructure funds at Macquarie Bank in London.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

EDUCATION

  • MBA, University of Chicago, Booth School of Business
  • BSc, economics, London School of Economics and Political Science

Publications and Videos

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Converging IT and OT Will Boost Value in Industrial Tech

Recent technology developments, most notably rapid AI advances, are accelerating the convergence of IT and OT, unlocking troves of industrial data to improve productivity, quality, and availability. 
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Machinery Makers’ Golden Opportunity in the Green Economy

The market for the equipment and industrial systems needed to limit global warming will total $27 trillion through 2040—a huge opportunity for the companies involved.
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Industrial Machinery Faces a Decade of Disruption

The seemingly insurmountable advantage that incumbents once had is vanishing. Here’s a look at what will be different by 2030.
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Climate Disruption and the Path to Profits for Machinery Makers

Global efforts to mitigate the impact of climate change will increasingly disrupt the industry’s business models. Companies must respond by taking four key actions now.
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For Machinery Makers, Green Tech Creates Green Business

Machinery manufacturers provide the technology and equipment needed to reduce carbon emissions and mitigate the effects of global warming—a €10 trillion greentech opportunity through 2050.
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Grüne Technologien für grünes Geschäft

Maschinen- und Anlagenbauer werden in den kommenden Jahren eine Schlüsselrolle in der Reduzierung klimawirksamer Treibhausgasemissionen übernehmen müssen. Ihre Waren und Dienstleistungen werden die Effizienzsteigerungen und technischen Innovationen ermöglichen, die notwendig sind, um den CO2-Fußabdruck von Endverbrauchern signifikant zu verringern. In dieser Studie analysieren wir die gesamten Treibhausgasemissionen 14 verschiedener industrieller Sektoren, die von Maschinenherstellern beliefert werden, sowie ihr jeweiliges Potenzial, diese Emissionen zu reduzieren, und die spezifischen Technologiehebel, die sie zu diesem Zweck einsetzen können. Die Bereitstellung der adäquaten Ausrüstung bietet eine Umsatzmöglichkeit von 10 Billionen Euro bis 2050.
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Three Paths to Value Creation for Machinery Companies

Innovative services, digitization, and operating model discipline—the best performers pursue at least one and sometimes all three.
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What President Trump’s Infrastructure Plan Means for Construction Machinery Makers

The administration’s proposal to boost infrastructure spending by $1 trillion promises to be a boon for companies that manufacture equipment used in large-scale construction projects.