
Dominique Mars
Senior Advisors EMERITUS
Mr. Mars joined Ceres as a Senior Advisor in May 2022 until passed away in 2024.
Mr. Mars is the Founder & Managing Partner of Mars & Co. which he created in 1979. Mars & Co. is one of the “big four” consulting firms in the world with McKinsey, Boston Consulting Group and Andersen Consulting.
Mr. Mars felt it was essential for a strategy consulting firm to guarantee the exclusivity of its services to each client, avoiding the “easy” but conflict-ridden path of building industry practice groups. Mars & Co was founded on this principle, aiming to serve a limited number of clients on an industry-exclusive basis.
Since its inception, Mars & Co’s goals have never changed. Its major “raison d’être” has remained to bring competitive leverage to a very limited number of clients and serve them worldwide on an exclusive basis – the only global consulting firm to guarantee “fidelity”. Mars & Co operates under a strict policy of exclusivity, meaning that we work for only one client in any given industry.
The approximate average market capitalization of the clients of Mars & Co. is approximately US$10 billion. Such firms include world leaders in their fields (Japanese electronic company Sony, etc.) as well as infrastructure operators such as such Veolia. Mars & Co. will also be a source of deal flow from long-term clients.
With offices in New York, Greenwhich, San Franciso, Paris, London, Tokyo, Shanghai and Singapore, Mars & Co. is the 4th largest consulting firm worldwide.
Mr. Mars & the consultants of Mars & Co. bring strategy as well as operational guidance and deal sourcing and management from operators to Ceres Asset Management LLC as it grows tackles issues, structures solutions and manages leaders of major companies WW.