Matt Hennessy is a director in CohnReznick’s Technology+ group. He focuses on high-impact transformation, vision, and strategy work to help clients achieve competitive advantage using advanced analytics and applied intelligence. Matt is also a member of the firm’s Performance Improvement practice where he focuses on increasing collaboration across service lines and creating new services to help clients drive growth. 

Matt helps guide the firm’s thinking on value creation and capture, emerging technologies, and innovation. With expertise in M&A, corporate strategy, advanced analytics for performance improvement, and digital value creation, he primarily advises clients primarily in the private equity, industrial, technology, and business services sectors. 

Matt has served in interim CTO and management roles for private equity-backed companies. Prior to CohnReznick, Matt was a strategy consultant at IBM Global Business Services where he worked with a variety of public sector, Fortune 500, and private equity investment teams to deliver engagements across the globe. At IBM, Matt was selected for the company’s highly prestigious Corporate Service Corps emerging markets global leadership development program.

Matt was previously honored by Consulting Magazine as a rising star of the profession with its 35 Under 35 award for excellence in strategy.