Entrepreneurial Spirit: BGS Consulting Founder Credits Arthur Andersen Roots for Firm’s Success.

By Brendan Giuseppe , Andersen Alumnus, Founder and Managing Director of BGS Consulting

Brendan Giuseppe, the founder, and CEO of BGS Consulting, began his career at Arthur Andersen in Washington DC, where he learned the importance of client service and treating others with respect and the attitude that we support one another for the common good. “Think Straight, Talk Straight” and “Helping In Ways You Never Imagined” were not just catchy phrases at Andersen, they were truly our way of life. These lessons were engrained in us and demonstrated through our actions as we lived these principles every day with unwavering commitment to each other and to our clients.

After working in audit at Andersen for the first eight years of his career, Mr. Giuseppe was asked to support a new function within the firm – Business Development. He made the switch to Business Development where he worked directly with the partner group to identify, pursue and win new work in the market as Andersen was expanding its non-audit advisory and consulting services. After 12 years at Andersen, Mr. Giuseppe continued his Business Development career at Deloitte, RSM and MorganFranklin Consulting before starting BGS Consulting in 2016. Having seen the best of the industry at Andersen, Mr. Giuseppe wanted to be part of an organization that truly followed the principles he saw and lived by while at Andersen. Hence, he decided to recreate these principles and way of life by starting his own firm and the journey began.

BGS Consulting has evolved over time and the Andersen influence and presence has grown with it. Frank Mencini joined the firm in late 2023 as a co-leader and Managing Partner. Mr. Mencini spent 14 years at Andersen (1989-2002) in the Washington D.C. market and helped build the local Healthcare Consulting practice. As a former Andersen partner and public board member, Mr. Mencini brings a high degree of integrity and business acumen to BGS Consulting. Mr. Mencini will continue to support our growth through client service, talent acquisition and forging new strategic partnerships in the market. In addition to Mr. Mencini, Bruce Prouty (Andersen 1988-1991) is the Chief Operating Officer of BGS Consulting and oversees all operations and ensures the firm’s values and principles are followed. Finally, we have two former Andersen partners on our Advisory Board, CE Andrews and Paul Feeko. Mr. Andrews held positions of increasing responsibility, including key leadership roles in the metropolitan Washington, D.C., office, Mid-Atlantic Market Circle, Southeast Region, U.S. National Practice, and Arthur Andersen Global. Mr. Feeko ran and built our Transaction Advisory Services Practice in the Washington D.C. market and served our largest M&A clients.

BGS Consulting is an accounting and finance advisory services firm, headquartered in the Washington D.C. area. BGS Consulting provides operational and project support to its clients to meet their evolving accounting and finance needs. BGS Consulting provides solutions and resources to their clients where they may lack capacity or expertise to achieve their day-to-day needs or mission-critical projects.

Today, BGS employs over 50 professionals and continues to teach that clients are not defined by statements of work or engagement letters, but rather, by our genuine and sincere interest in helping others in whatever way we can. We know if we do the right things and help others with their agenda and interests in mind, not ours, that we’ll develop the right mindsets and behaviors within our firm. The core values embraced at Arthur Andersen, including a relentless pursuit of quality, ethical practices, and a client-centric approach, have been woven into the culture at BGS Consulting. Clients of BGS Consulting experience the Andersen way of industry-leading expertise and a commitment to high standards of integrity and professionalism. We focus not only on delivering unique solutions to our clients (the “what”) but also on the “how” we deliver, meaning we strive to be a very user-friendly firm and bring a very flexible and nimble approach to our client delivery model. We want to achieve outstanding results for our clients while fostering long-lasting relationships.

As BGS Consulting approaches its eighth anniversary, Mr. Giuseppe expresses immense gratitude to the roots he cultivated at Arthur Andersen, recognizing the pivotal role that Andersen played in shaping the culture and operations at BGS Consulting.