Syed Maaz Azeem
Senior Consultant at PwC advising on M&A tech strategy — due diligence, Day 1 readiness, and TSA carveouts across Private Equity and portfolio-company transactions. 6+ years pairing deal advisory with data-driven digital strategy and modernization, spanning GenAI strategy, go-to-market strategy, business analytics, and Tech IMO/SMO strategy and planning.
Senior Consultant, Accelerated Solutions
PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) · Raleigh, NC
Senior Consultant, Accelerated Solutions
Advising Private Equity and portfolio-company clients through the full deal lifecycle, from diligence to Day 1 — influencing up to $35M in deal value, saving $750K+ through separation planning, and opening GenAI transformation paths for clients.
- Lead IT and business-systems workstreams across Private Equity and PortCo M&A transactions — due diligence, Day 1 readiness, and TSA carveout, integration, and exit planning.
- Analyze operational and tech/financial data to surface integration risks, quantify synergies, and refine one-time costs, driving deal values of up to $35 million during RFP and proposal phases.
- Spearheaded IMO and SMO planning for FutureCo and RemainCo, lifting operational efficiency 45% and saving over $750K.
- Identify GenAI transformation opportunities across Modern Workplace, Network/Telecom, and Hybrid Cloud domains, improving operational efficiency by 30%.
Senior Consultant, Digital Strategy
Promantis Inc · Raleigh, NC
Senior Consultant, Digital Strategy
Owned automation and digital-strategy engagements end to end — leading teams of up to 10, winning $250K in contracts through 20+ RFPs, and improving operations for 500+ users and vendors.
- Led automation-strategy engagements for clients across industries, managing cross-functional teams of up to 10 and delivering a 15% improvement in operational efficiency.
- Built and executed development, UAT, and go-to-market strategies guiding clients through complex digital transitions — positively impacting 500+ users and vendors.
- Led preparation of 20+ RFPs, securing contracts worth up to $250K, with pre-sales work driving a 15% lift in conversion rates.
Strategy Consultant
RapidData.io · Raleigh, NC
Strategy Consultant
Trusted advisor to C-suite clients on data-driven modernization — a 100% delivery record with repeat business — while driving product strategy and marketing for a multi-cloud optimization tool.
- Advised C-suite executives on data-driven decision-making — 15% improvement in strategic-planning effectiveness, 100% project delivery success, and repeat business.
- Spearheaded product marketing for a cloud optimization tool through A/B testing, customer demos, and integrations with Azure, AWS, and GCP.
- Partnered with senior leadership across non-profit, government, and finance clients on digital modernization, raising productivity and efficiency by 20%+.
Strategy Consultant, Technology
PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) · New York, NY
Strategy Consultant, Technology
Delivered data-driven growth strategy for clients from SMBs to large enterprises — generating over $850K in client revenue with a 100% engagement delivery success rate.
- Designed and executed data-driven business strategies for SMBs through large enterprises, supporting org-wide growth priorities.
- Achieved a 100% engagement delivery success rate while aligning broad cross-functional stakeholder teams.
- Developed business cases and workshops generating over $850K in client revenue and successful digital-solution outcomes.
Corporate Separation — Digital Transformation Execution
Established guardrails and a roadmap for transitioning major platform functionality through a TSA exit — balancing business value and user experience. Devised the separation strategy and design principles for NewCo's ITSM functions, built the plan for processes, modules, and data models (including transitory states), defined OCM and communication requirements, and executed data migration and configuration updates.
Enterprise Data & Analytics Portfolio Optimization
Reframed a D&A backlog around strategic objectives and value realization, built an integrated roadmap tying prioritized work to future-state capabilities across business pillars, and moved the organization to an agile product-delivery cadence.
Trust & Safety Data Support and Strategy
Created the data strategy and program build for trust & safety content moderation, producing decks, models, and program builds for regulatory compliance. Built Data Studio dashboards for real-time tracking of moderation metrics and researched content moderation and trust & safety regulations across jurisdictions.
Cloud Data Center Exit & Migrations
Streamlined a data center exit through a unified vendor/partner approach — defined pricing and sizing requirements for seamless vendor onboarding, structured RACI and Gantt charts to cut project delays, and orchestrated technology consolidation across vendors.
MS Dynamics CRM Migration
Led a digital transformation engagement upgrading a government entity's CRM from MS Dynamics 2013 to cloud-based Dynamics 365 — from requirements gathering to go-live. Built a Power BI reporting system with real-time metrics and used Power Apps / Power Automate for migration workflows, partnering with executives on the project roadmap.
Cloud Analytics & Optimization Tool
Owned product strategy for a cloud cost-optimization tool — led a 10-person team across design, engineering, sales, and marketing; ran market analysis; and drove customer demos and sales enablement.
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Georgia Institute of Technology
2023 — 2026 M.S., Business Analytics · Atlanta, GANorth Carolina State University
2018 — 2021 B.S., Statistics · Minor in Mathematics · Raleigh, NCWant to connect on a potential opportunity?
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