History
Hitachi Consulting was founded through the acquisition of Grant Thornton LLP’s (headquartered in Chicago, IL.) information technology and strategy consulting practice in November 2000. Three former Grant Thornton LLP principals (Chuck Scoville-COO, Mike Driessen-Sales/Marketing and Dan Raskas-Delivery of Services) were the founding leadership team along with 18 former Grant Thornton LLP partners and principles.
Since then the company has acquired a number of consulting competitors including: WaveBend Solutions from BDO Seidman (June 2001), Tactica Technology (November 2001), Aspirity (April 2004), Dove Consulting (August 2005), Navigator Systems (February 2006), Impact Plus through the subsidiary Hitachi Consulting UK (April 2007), Iteration2 (June 2007) and JMN Associates (March 2008). After the dissolvement of Arthur Andersen, 23 partners and 370 consultants of Arthur Andersen Business Consulting (AABC) also joined the company in June 2002.
The U.S. subsidiary was originally named Experio Solutions until it was renamed Hitachi Consulting in May 2003 to leverage the Hitachi brand. The Japanese Hitachi company Exsurge was renamed in April 2006 accordingly.
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