Kurt Salmon Associates

Kurt Salmon

Type	Subsidiary
Industry	Management Consulting
Founded	1935
Headquarters	Atlanta, U.S.
Key people	Brooks Kitchel (Chief Executive Officer) Madison Riley (Chief Operating Officer)
Products	Management consulting services
Number of employees	500+
Parent	Management Consulting Group
Website	www.kurtsalmon.com

Kurt Salmon is a global management and strategy consulting firm formed by the merger of Ineum Consulting and Kurt Salmon Associates (KSA) in January 2011:

Kurt Salmon is part of Management Consulting Group Plc, listed on the London Stock Exchange with Alexander Proudfoot Consulting, expert in performance improvement.

As of November 2016, Kurt Salmon was acquired by Accenture.

The firm was officially founded as Kurt Salmon Associates (KSA) in 1935 by Kurt Salmon, a German immigrant from Cologne. Salmon was professionally educated at Chemnitz Textile University and visited the United States in 1930 at the urging of his father to gain experience in the emerging economy of the United States. Although he did not originally intend to stay in the United States, he was favorably impressed with the culture and decided to stay on. After a series of engineering projects with two hosiery companies, he formed his own consulting firm to redesign manufacturing processes in the needle trade. Although operated as a partnership, KSA was legally organized as a Delaware Corporation owned solely by the principals of the firm.

KSA expanded slowly over its first decade of operation. In these early years, the company established an ethic of diligence and quality in client work. Salmon himself was a stickler for details, and this would become a fundamental part of the firm’s cultural fabric. One of the firm’s first hires was Karl Striegel, a Carnegie Institute engineer who would become Salmon’s primary partner in building the business. The two men worked closely together over the next 25 years as KSA expanded from a dozen to more than 200 professional staff.

By the 1960s KSA was the consulting leader in improving manufacturing operations in the soft goods industry sector. Kurt Salmon personally set the tone for the culture. Externally, Karl Striegel drove the commercial side of the business with clients. Many senior colleagues still recall this period as among the Golden Years of KSA.