About Us

Management Partners, LLC is a management consulting firm based out of South Carolina. Our mission is to deliver high business value through IT advisory services, from senior consultants, each with at least 25 years’ experience in the industry. Each has been in various IT executive roles, whether senior VP, CTO or CIO. The firm was founded in 2011 by William Gauld, who after a long and notable career began to focus more on helping companies improve their products, services and operations, through consulting with a focus on business and technology integration. Many of our clients have engaged Management Partners with the specific agenda of streamlining IT and reducing expenditures; in just those engagements, we have already saved our clients over a billion dollars in direct expense. Reducing spend is only part of the equation, though. For most companies, common wisdom is that at least 80% of IT spend is devoted to “keeping the lights on” (KTLO), with only 20% left at best to direct toward innovation. We’ve worked with clients where the split is closer to 90/10. It’s no wonder IT is seen as a cost center in so many organizations, with the primary directive being to cut costs.

Technology as Strategic Investment

As long as IT spend really is purely a cost center, and IT cannot function or be perceived as a key enabler of business strategy, the emphasis may be solely on reducing cost. As IT budgets are squeezed, the percentage dedicated to “keep the lights on” (KTLO) increases. It’s not uncommon for KTLO to represent 80% or more of IT expenditure, leaving a scant 20% to spend on R&D, innovation and new projects. With budget tightening, and KTLO creeping up to 90% or more of the IT budget, an organization’s ability to innovate with the help of IT grinds to a halt. The end point of this cycle can be bleak. When we we identify opportunities to streamline and improve operations, we help our clients free up millions of dollars that can be redeployed to enable and accelerate business and IT strategy. Our team of seasoned executive consultants can help drive these new strategic investments as well. Our principals have developed and led cloud strategy transformations, planned and managed deployment of new corporate divisions, managed massive data center deployments and moves, created BI and enterprise consolidation platforms for Fortune 500 clients, led massive global regulatory projects impacting dozens of offices in as many countries to meet SEC requirements, and much more. We’re here to work with you, based on our experience and skills, to understand your challenges, opportunities and plans. The same senior team that works with you to define the engagement will be the experts who craft and deliver the outcomes.