Charles M. Perrottet

Principal, The Futures Strategy Group

Charles Perrottet is a founding principal of the Futures Strategy Group, LLC (FSG), which was established in 2002 to support long-term planning and strategic decisions of large corporate and governmental organizations. FSG is the successor organization to Deloitte Consulting’s Scenario Practice, which Mr. Perrottet led as a Firm Director, and The Futures Group, where Mr. Perrottet led the Strategy Practice for over ten years.

Prior to joining The Futures Group, Mr. Perrottet served as Vice President of Corporate Development for Hasbro. He had corporate responsibility for strategic planning, mergers and acquisitions, and investor relations. In this capacity, he acted as principal advisor to the CEO on issues concerning corporate strategy, new business opportunities, technological developments, and the competitive environment. During his tenure, his company was the largest and most successful company in its field and enjoyed the highest 10-year return to investors of any Fortune 500 firm.

Mr. Perrottet has been an advisor to top executives for most of his 30 years. He has helped them construct strategies that have capitalized on changes in the makeup of the customer base "pulling" their markets and technological, regulatory, and competitive developments "pushing" the markets. Mr. Perrottet has led strategy projects for some of the largest and most successful companies in the financial services, professional services, pharmaceutical, automotive, air transportation, telecommunications, and technology industries.

Client engagements include:

• A leading role in Project Horizon, a long-term, interagency strategic planning exercise to anticipate emerging opportunities and challenges in global affairs
• Supporting the U.S. Coast Guard’s long-term strategy process – “Project Evergreen”
• Creating business continuity strategies for a large New York financial institution
• Helping management of one of the leading technology companies create a new strategy for its largest core business
• Leading an innovative process to form new research strategies for one of the leading pharmaceutical companies in the world (and leveraging the process to explore new global strategies for the entire enterprise)
• Creating a new strategy for a regional bank that has since become one of the largest banking institutions in the U.S.
• Leading the strategy process for a leading professional services firm
• Creating and procuring Board commitment for a strategy for a large financial clearing house.
• A growth strategy for a large cellular telephone company
• A new strategy for one of the most successful automotive companies in the world

Mr. Perrottet holds a degree (Magna Cum Laude) in marketing from Lehigh University and an MBA from the University of Chicago and an MSc in economics from the London School of Economics.

He has written extensively on planning, strategy and the forces for change for such publications as Management Review, Bests, Planning Review, Airline Business, Journal of Business Strategy, Chemical Management Review, and other publications. He has been quoted in The Wall Street Journal, Business Week, and numerous newspapers. He has also been a featured or keynote speaker throughout the U.S. and Europe.