Pournader & Company CEO and leadership

As CEO of P&C Global, Nick oversees the global consultancy and directly leads some of the firm’s client engagements. With over 20 years of experience in the private sector, he is valued as a thought leader in the areas of digital reinvention, IT transformation, organizational agility, and performance improvement. Nick has deep experience in multiple industries including high-tech, financial services, healthcare payers, manufacturing, and professional services with a focus on performance improvement and the impact of culture, values, and leadership on performance. In his advisory work, Nick helps CEOs and other top executives assess organizational health and leads initiatives to improve results. He also brings strong experience in strategic human resources, helping organizations to create world-class talent systems and winning workforce dynamics.

Julia is P&C’s Chief Data Scientist. She has over 20 years of experience and is a subject matter expert in cognitive computing, big data analytics, data mining and warehousing, and complex platform integration. Julia has particular domain expertise in IT transformation, digital reinvention, agile methodologies, and creating revealing insights from data to improve corporate performance. Her industry expertise includes retail, healthcare (payers and institutional providers), transportation, and financial services.

Julia began her career with Experian where she held the position of Manager of Data Modeling for the Financial Services sector products of the company - leveraging complex data sets provided by customers and combining them with Experian’s vast consumer data repositories to deliver unique insights and opportunities back to Experian’s clients which enabled them to better serve their customers, maximize revenues, and manage complex and highly-interwoven risk scenarios. From there, Julia joined IBM and served customers across the globe to create the unique cognitive computing solutions from IBM Watson. Following her tenure at IBM, she joined Groupe Galeries Lafayette where she served in a variety of data management, analytics, and consumer insights leadership functions at the Group’s consumer financial services subsidiary, Cofinoga, then one of the largest consumer lenders in Europe (now part of BNP Paribas).

As P&C’s Chief Operating Officer, Nadim leads our operational leaders in helping drive business operations worldwide. He is a member of the Executive Committee and Chairs the Global Operating Committee - linking strategy, execution, and accountability and aligning the organization around shared objectives.

Nadim also spends a significant portion of his time with our clients in guiding senior client executive teams on complex operations, process transformation, and technology transformation initiatives across multiple industries including retail, manufacturing, logistics, and information technology.

Nadim’s career began with luxury retailer Holt Renfrew where he ultimately became the senior executive accountable for logistics. His career in the retail industry culminated at global luxury retail parent company, Groupe Galeries Lafayette, where he served in senior leadership roles in logistics, operations, technology, and acquisition integration across the group’s brands in Europe, Middle East, Africa, and East Asia.

Virginia Blair is a principal at P&C and serves as Chief Technology Officer (CTO). She is a member on the Global Operating Committee and chairs the Diversity & Inclusion and Advanced Technology Research councils of P&C.

Virginia is one of P&C’s most experienced technologists and has responsibility for all facets of technology including strategy, innovation, applications, infrastructure, support, and execution. She also spends significant portion of her time working with clients across the globe discussing technology strategy, trends, and leadership.

With deep expertise in the travel and hospitality, financial services, e-commerce, retail, manufacturing, and professional services industries, Virginia partners with client CEOs, their top executive teams, and P&C’s practice teams on technology strategy, digital reinvention, IT transformation, AI and analytics, and cyber security initiatives.

As CEO of P&C Global, Nick oversees the global consultancy and directly leads some of the firm’s client engagements. With over 20 years of experience in the private sector, he is valued as a thought leader in the areas of digital reinvention, IT transformation, organizational agility, and performance improvement. Nick has deep experience in multiple industries including high-tech, financial services, healthcare payers, manufacturing, and professional services with a focus on performance improvement and the impact of culture, values, and leadership on performance. In his advisory work, Nick helps CEOs and other top executives assess organizational health and leads initiatives to improve results. He also brings strong experience in strategic human resources, helping organizations to create world-class talent systems and winning workforce dynamics.