Andre is the founder and servant leader of Powered by Action. Andre is also the Chairman of C3 Venture Group, LLC and Co-Owner of BigMarker.
Andre Hughes was a Managing Director responsible for evaluating strategic growth initiatives that can substantially fuel Accenture’s growth agenda globally. Andre evaluates strategic partnerships and ventures, along with assessing which new companies to launch or acquire.
Previously, Andre Hughes was the Global Managing Director of Accenture’s Network Consulting and Outsourcing Business. Launched as a virtual entity in February 2009, this practice area has experienced accelerated growth, including $1.5 billion in net new sales within the first 26 months of operations. Andre founded and was accountable for managing this business practice.
Andre was the visionary leader of Accenture’s Human Capital, Inclusion and Diversity, and Corporate Citizenship actions and results in the US. In this role, he led a team and strategy committed to developing globally responsible leaders; shaping proactive strategies that improved our human capital effectiveness and helped deliver our business strategy.
An innovator, Andre accelerated as a Partner by identifying a new market that focused on Transformational opportunities in the Telecommunications market place. As part of his five-year tenure as the Founder and Global Managing Partner of the Network Service Line of Business, Andre and his team grew this practice to more than one-half billion in revenue.
Andre was the Communications & High Tech North America Managing Partner for Consulting, where he directed business strategy, and market development initiatives focused on growth.
Andre initially joined Accenture as an experienced consultant in the Network Solutions practice – where he worked his way up to Partner within 10 years in leadership positions spanning the Finance, Government, and Communications industries.
Andre serves on the Boards of the Accenture Foundation; the Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum, Chicago; the Krannert School of Management – Business Opportunity Program, Purdue University; the Chicago Urban League; Thurgood Marshall College Fund; and the Presidential Council for Economic Growth and Development in Haiti. In addition, he is an adviser to the Women’s Vision Foundation in Denver, and is an advisor to Teen Living in Chicago. Recently, he founded and serves as the Executive Director for Powered by Action – a global nonprofit organization focused on building distressed and developing communities to self-sufficiency.
Personally, Andre enjoys gardening and spending time with his family. He is an alumnus of both Purdue University and the University of Chicago, where he earned a Bachelor Degree in Engineering and MBA in Finance respectively.