PA Consulting Group

PA Consulting Group
FormerlyPersonnel Administration
Company type
Founded1943; 81 years ago (1943)
Founders
  • Ernest E. Butten
    • Tom H. Kirkham
    • Dr David Seymour
Headquarters
London
,
UK
Number of locations
19[2]
Key people
  • Christian Norris, CEO
  • John Alexander, Chairman
Revenue£785m[3] (2022)
Number of employees
4,200 (2023)
Websitewww.paconsulting.com

PA Consulting Group (formerly Personnel Administration) is a professional services firm that works with public, private and third-sector organisations. It was founded in 1943 by Ernest E. Butten, Tom H. Kirkham and Dr David Seymour, who used a new approach to people management to increase productivity in munitions factories during World War 2. PA grew to become the world’s largest management consultancy by headcount in 1970.[4]

Today, PA employs more than 4,000 people globally.

PA works with organisations in seven industries: consumer and manufacturing; defence and security; energy and utilities; financial services; public services; healthcare and life sciences; and transport. It operates in these industries from offices in the UK, US, Ireland, Nordics and Netherlands.[2] It is also a member of the United Nations Global Compact, a non-binding UN pact that encourages businesses to adopt sustainable practices, and the WePROTECT Global Alliance,[5] a network of governments and companies aiming to tackle online child exploitation and abuse. PA produced the first two Global Threat Assessments for WePROTECT.[6][7]

The company is privately held, with 65% of shares owned by Jacobs Solutions and the remaining 35% owned by current and former employees.[1] Staff can buy shares during an annual share-trading period.

  1. ^ a b "PA Consulting press release". PA Consulting. Retrieved 26 September 2023.
  2. ^ a b "About us". PA Consulting. Retrieved 30 March 2022.
  3. ^ "PA Consulting report and accounts 2022" (PDF). PA Consulting. Retrieved 12 April 2022.
  4. ^ The story of the PA Consulting Group 1943-1992’, Christine Jackson and Mark Smalley
  5. ^ "Private sector". WePROTECT Global Alliance. May 2014. Retrieved 18 March 2022.
  6. ^ "WeProtect Summit and report". PA Consulting. August 2017. Retrieved 3 March 2020.
  7. ^ "WeProtect Global Threat Assessment". PA Consulting. November 2019. Retrieved 3 March 2020.