Craig Van Ness has recently joined PA Consulting Group's financial services industries practice, and will be based in the UK.
Craig joins the firm with over 20 years' financial markets industry experience as both a line manager and consultant. Prior to joining PA Consulting, Craig was a senior director at Fitch Group for five years, where he was global head of Algorithmics' credit data services business, an ASP-based credit data pooling, research and consulting service provider to the world's leading commercial lending institutions. Prior to that Craig spent six years with Andersen Business Consulting as a director in their global investment banking and asset management practice. Before becoming a management consultant, Craig worked in IT and operations in both banking and asset management.
Craig's management consulting experience includes developing new/joint business ventures, developing business & IT strategies and delivering large-scale change and IT programmes in the areas of credit risk, capital & portfolio management, commercial lending, corporate treasury and capital markets.
Jeremy Stanyard, Head of PA's global financial services practice, said, "I am delighted to welcome Craig to the practice and look forward to working with him to continue building our strength in financial services".