Tony Cape

Partner,

Chicago

Co-head of Americas Procurement Practice. Extensive experience driving successful transformations with clients across a range of industries, with particular focus in industrial goods and services.

About Tony

Expertise

Highlights

  • Winner - 2023 Procurement Leaders "Consultancy Project of the Year"
  • Specializes in building partnerships between procurement and operations to ensure sustainability of results

Tony Cape co-leads our Americas Procurement practice. Within his work, Tony is passionate about building cross-functional partnerships between procurement and operations to ensure depth and sustainability of results. He is also one of Bain's leaders on the use of Generative AI in procurement

Tony has also worked extensively in our Energy & Natural Resources and Performance Improvement practices over the past several years, with a particular focus on procurement (both direct and indirect) and broader cost transformation.

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Tony has worked in many industrials sub-sectors, including chemicals, mining, oil and gas, building products, and transportation and logistics. He has also worked with clients in the consumer products, retail, financial services, hospitality and technology industries, as well as in Bain's Private Equity Group. Outside of performance improvement, Tony has also worked on G&A cost reduction, marketing strategy, organizational design, and pricing strategy alongside mulitple private equity due diligences.

In addition to client work, Tony is involved in training and recruiting activities, leading Tuck recruiting for the Chicago office.

Prior to joining Bain in 2010, Tony worked in advertising sales in Toronto as well as in rural development in Ghana, West Africa.

Tony earned an MBA from the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College. He previously earned a BA (honors) in history and economics from Queen's University. 

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