Cambridge Consultants

Cambridge Consultants, part of Capgemini Invent, develops products and services, creates and licenses intellectual property, and provides business consultancy in for clients. In 2021, Cambridge Consultants became part of Capgemini Invent.

The company has offices in Cambridge (UK), Boston (USA), Tokyo and Singapore, and offers solutions across a range of industries including medical and life science, industrial and energy, consumer and retail, and communications and infrastructure.^[1]

Cambridge Consultants was founded in 1960 by Tim Eiloart, Rodney Dale, and David Southward, three Cambridge University graduates.^[2]

Initially, the company was privately run. In 1971, it became part of Arthur D. Little (ADL), an American management consultancy firm.^[3] In 2002, following ADL's Chapter 11 bankruptcy, Cambridge Consultants' was acquired by Altran, a global innovation and engineering consulting firm.^[4] In 2020, Altran itself was acquired by Capgemini,^[5] with Cambridge Consultants thus coming under the ownership of the French firm, and operating under the "Capgemini Invent" umbrella.

Cambridge Consultants has been described as one of the founders of the Cambridge Cluster^[6] and has spun out multiple $1bn+ companies, including:

• Alphamosaic
• Domino Printing Sciences
• Cambridge Silicon Radio
• Xaar

• Dale, Rodney (1979) From Ram Yard to Milton Hilton: A History of Cambridge Consultants Ltd, 1960–1979, 36 pp. Cambridge: Cambridge Consultants Ltd
• Dale, Rodney (2010) From Ram Yard to Milton Hilton: Cambridge Consultants - the early years, 120 pp. Haddenham, Cambridgeshire: Fern House Publishing, ISBN 978-1-902702-24-7