George Olive founded Sanglier in 2019 to provide strategy and operations consulting in the lower middle market, helping new businesses scale and mature businesses innovate. George has also acted as a senior advisor to Actionist Consulting and its clients, as well as to Rallyday Partners and its portfolio companies. His interests include the energy transition, social enterprise, and core goods and services.

 

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In five years with McKinsey & Company's energy practice, he worked in utilities, oil and gas, and chemicals on asset productivity, organizational change, profitability transformation, and capability building. After leaving McKinsey, he became the first COO of Everytable, an award-winning restaurant chain focused on affordability and nutrition with ~35 locations across southern California.

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His undergraduate work at Columbia, for which he won a Rhodes scholarship, was in economics and earth science; at Oxford, he studied the build-out of electricity in New York City (1880–1920).

 

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George is from the Ozarks and lives in Los Angeles. He is on excellent terms with every dog in his neighborhood and enjoys crosswords, birdwatching, and amusing his wife and daughter.