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HUGH DORSEY
MANAGING DIRECTOR
After a decade as a senior director of client and business development at Ropes & Gray, I founded Catalyst IV to focus on where I see the greatest untapped growth potential: direct business development support for partners and client teams on specific opportunities and client relationships.
At Ropes & Gray, my role combined client team leadership with industry platform building. I worked directly with partners and clients on relationship development and the expansion of services, as well as launching and leading the firm's Financial Services Industry Group. Before that, at Fried Frank, Shearman & Sterling and Morrison Foerster,
I covered the full spectrum of strategic business development, including practice development, competitive intelligence, client development, lateral integration, and new business pursuits.
Over twenty years across these firms provides perspective on what works across different firm cultures, practice mixes, and market conditions. Catalyst IV is built to leverage that experience directly to individual partners and client teams.
Education
London School of Economics & Political Science
Master's of Science in Global Management/MBA, with Honors
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University of Georgia, Honors College
B.A., Magna Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa, Presidential Scholar
International graduate studies:
Nanjing University
National University of Singapore
Koç University
Universidad Complutense de Madrid
University of Amsterdam