Margaret Downs

Ms. Downs’s career has spanned management consulting, private equity, and general management.
Currently she leads Downs & Associates LLC, a practice she founded in 1997 to advise clients on strategic and organizational challenges.
She began her consulting career in 1985 at Bain & Company, where she served as a consultant and manager for five years.
Through Downs & Associates, she has advised clients in strategic planning, business development, organization design, management restructuring and leadership development.
She has served in a range of industries including marketing and media information, healthcare, food products, financial services, and environmental services and engineering.
Early in 2000, Margaret left Downs & Associates to join Bain Capital LLC, a private equity fund, where she served as an Executive Vice President through mid-2002.
At Bain Capital, she acted in a business development role, identifying and evaluating potential private equity investments.
Prior to founding Downs & Associates, she served as General Manager of APM’s strategic consulting practice.
(APM, a leading healthcare consulting firm, is now CSC Healthcare, a division of Computer Sciences Corporation).
Ms. Downs received an M.B.A.
degree from the Harvard Business School in 1985.
She earned her B.A.
degree from Harvard College, magna cum laude with highest honors in history and Phi Beta Kappa.
She has completed additional graduate work in organizational psychology.