Consulting partner pool soars, taps academia, policy and tech too

PwC’s commercial chief Vivek Prasad said the company, which has close to 1,050 partners, is hiring from academia, technology and technology policy, media, trade negotiations, product engineering, design thinking, startups, data science and even healthcare. “Our partner group has more than doubled in the last five years; the last three years have seen a very rapid increase in intake,” said Prasad.