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Sia accelerates its expansion in Australia with the acquisition of Seven Consulting.   We are proud to announce that Seven Consulting, an Australian management consulting firm known for its expertise in Business Transformation, has joined the Group.   Founded in 2002, Seven Consulting brings together a team of over 100 consultants, half based in Sydney and the other half split between Melbourne and Manila. The firm has built its reputation by supporting leading organizations across the Banking, Government, Transportation, Retail and Energy & Utilities sectors on complex, business-critical transformation programs.   This acquisition marks a key step in Sia’s expansion in Australia, allowing the Group to reach critical mass in the country with a combined team of around 130 consultants, together with its existing base in Perth. It establishes a significant presence on Australia’s East Coast, with flagship offices in Sydney and Melbourne, and diversifies Sia’s client portfolio in Australia by adding access to larger blue-chip clients across Banking, Government, Transportation and Retail.   Fully aligned with our M&A strategy, the transaction further reinforces Sia’s global platform while expanding its program delivery and change management capabilities across key international markets.   Welcome to the Seven Consulting team — we are excited to shape the future together!   #Sia #Growth #Acquisition

Sia is thrilled to announce the appointment of Lucinda Bevan as Managing Director. Based in London, Lucinda Bevan is a Managing Director within Sia's Brand, Innovation & Culture activities. A graduate of the University of Oxford, Lucinda began her career at Goldman Sachs Investment Bank before joining BBH London and later The Upside, a UK-based consulting agency that joined Sia in 2025. She advises leading brands on growth, brand marketing, and product strategy, helping organizations drive innovation and create lasting business impact.   Lucinda’s appointment reflects our continued commitment to strengthening our Brand, Innovation & Culture capabilities and supporting clients in navigating growth, transformation, and evolving customer expectations.   #BrandStrategy #Innovation #Leadership

Excited to share Mastercard’s newly released white paper, Pathways to Financial Health, highlighting how financial institutions across global markets are advancing financial inclusion and supporting long-term financial health outcomes. The research analyzes insights from financial institutions operating in Nigeria, the Dominican Republic, Brazil, and the Philippines, examining how customer journeys evolve from access and adoption toward sustained usage and financial resilience. Through Kaiser Associates, which joined Sia in early 2026, our teams supported Mastercard with market-specific scoring methodologies, advanced analytics, and bespoke research that helped uncover actionable insights across diverse consumer and market contexts. One of the clearest findings: sustained engagement matters. Consumers demonstrating consistent usage showed materially stronger transaction activity compared to those with access alone, reinforcing the business and social value of designing for long-term engagement. The paper also highlights the importance of: • Intuitive onboarding and early product experiences • Building trust through reliable, accessible support systems • Ongoing education, guidance, and incentives that encourage healthy financial behaviors Congratulations to Mastercard and all contributing partners on this impactful work. #FinancialHealth #FinancialInclusion #Consulting

Private banking doesn’t have a data problem. It has a visibility problem.   Clients and advisors often operate from different views of the same portfolio, making personalized advice harder to scale and opportunities easier to miss.   That’s why Sia built the Private Banking Agent.   Clients will find a personal AI advisor embedded directly into every investment wrapper — PEA, CTO, Assurance Vie, and receive tailored portfolio recommendations based on:   • Actual positions  • Risk profile  • Investment objectives  • French tax considerations    Advisors will have a consolidated intelligence layer that transforms portfolio data into actionable conversations, and will automatically identify:    • Geographic concentration risks  • Liquidity gaps  • Tax wrapper arbitrage opportunities  • Sector overexposure  • Potential upsell and optimization opportunities    One platform. Two experiences. Clients get AI-guided investment support. Advisors get AI-prepared client conversations.   The result: more relevant interactions, stronger personalization, and better-informed decisions.   Interested in seeing both experiences in action? Let’s connect.   #PrivateBanking #WealthManagement #ArtificialIntelligence 

A few days ago, on the 26th of July, UNESCO celebrated its International Day for the Conservation of the Mangrove Ecosystem. A crucial reminder of the vital role these coastal forests play in protecting our planet and our communities. Mangroves are powerful natural allies in the face of climate change. They help protect coastlines from storms and erosion, provide essential habitats for marine life, support local food systems and livelihoods, and capture and store significant amounts of carbon. Yet these ecosystems are under growing pressure. Protecting existing mangrove forests is essential, but so is making them more widespread and resilient. In areas where they have been degraded or lost, restoration and reforestation can play an important role in rebuilding healthy ecosystems for the long term. This work would not be possible without the communities, organizations and individuals who protect and restore these forests every day. Their efforts are essential to strengthening ecosystems that ultimately protect us all. This is the spirit behind the Cameroon Mangrove Ecosystem Restoration & Resilience (CAMERR) project, spearheaded by Planète Urgence and supported by Orange and Sia. Over three decades, the initiative aims to restore 1,000 hectares of mangrove forest in Cameroon, while contributing to nine of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. A few months ago, we teamed up with Cameroonian photographer Desy DANGA to document the restoration site through a dedicated photo story—putting the spotlight on these ecosystems, the people working to protect them, and the long-term effort required to make them more resilient. Learn more in the comments. #WorldMangroveDay #CAMERR

Sia has been named an OpenAI Advanced Partner within the OpenAI Partner Network. Sia joined the first wave of partners participating in the OpenAI Partner Network in June 2026. The Advanced Partner designation brings together partners that have demonstrated delivery capability, sustained client impact, and specialized expertise in helping deploy at scale OpenAI's enterprise AI solutions, including ChatGPT Work, Codex, and plugins built on OpenAI's models and APIs. Sia already supports organizations of all sizes in deploying OpenAI technologies at scale. Sia has led enterprise-wide rollouts of ChatGPT Work and Codex for global organizations with workforces exceeding 10,000 employees, enabling secure adoption across multiple business functions and geographies, while also helping mid-sized companies embed AI into everyday workflows with a few hundred licenses. As an Advanced Partner, Sia continues working with OpenAI to help organizations build, deploy, and scale AI solutions responsibly and effectively, helping clients get more useful work from every token and stronger performance per dollar with GPT-5.6, while using ChatGPT Work to turn ambitious goals into finished work. Combining adoption strategy, use-case identification, governance, training, and change management, we help clients move beyond experimentation toward AI as a sustainable driver of productivity and innovation. “We’re pleased to welcome Sia as an OpenAI Advanced Partner. The Sia team brings practical enterprise AI delivery experience across strategy, implementation, and adoption,” said Philip Larson, Senior Director, OpenAI Partner Network. “Through the OpenAI Partner Network, Sia can help more enterprises move from AI pilots to measurable business impact.” We look forward to continuing this work with OpenAI as we support organizations in turning AI ambition into measurable outcomes. More information in our corporate news - Link in comments. #OpenAIPartnerNetwork #OpenAIAdvancedPartner #OpenAI 

Sia is delighted to announce that Marie-Alice GOUJARD has been appointed Chief People Officer for EMEA & APAC.   Based in Paris, Marie-Alice will now lead people strategy across both regions, building on her track record in this area at Sia.   A graduate of EDHEC Business School, Marie-Alice joined Sia in 2018 as Head of Recruitment and Employer Branding. In 2021, she became Chief People Officer for our France, Italy and Morocco hub, a role in which she strengthened our talent and culture agenda.   This expanded mandate reflects Sia's ambition to place our current and future talent at the core of its growth, bringing our teams together under one shared vision as we build a truly global people strategy.   #HR #Recruitment #PeopleStrategy

Last week, Sia hosted a Voice AI Hackathon in partnership with ElevenLabs. Among the shifts that are set to reshape customer engagement, we see a major reversal: the years-long push to reduce customer interactions through self-service is about to give way, as AI makes interactions easier, more proactive, and more personalized. In addition, by 2029, 25% of customer interactions are expected to be agentic, with voice becoming one of the primary interfaces between businesses and their customers. To explore this, 50 Sia consultants spent the evening designing and building Voice AI agents for real business challenges. Three projects stood out: - First place: Memor'IA Voice, a voice companion supporting people living with Alzheimer's disease, proactively checking in and keeping caregivers informed. - Second place: AI Banking Advisor, streamlining KYC and account opening for financial institutions. - Third place: Tourism Voice Assistant, a multilingual guide helping tourists discover hotels and local attractions. This is only the beginning. We'll keep exploring Voice AI and agentic technologies to help clients turn innovation into business value. A huge thank you to ElevenLabs and all participants for their creativity!

Sia is thrilled to announce the appointment of Pierre-Antoine Merle as Partner.   Based in Paris, Pierre Antoine Merle is a Partner within Sia’s AI, Data & Quantitative services Buisness Line, leading engagements focused on risk modeling, AI, and technological transformation for insurance and banking clients. A graduate of EURIA (France), Pierre Antoine has been with Sia for over 12 years. He helps organizations leverage data-driven insights to strengthen risk management, improve decision-making, and unlock sustainable business value.   Pierre Antoine’s appointment reflects our continued commitment to expanding our Data & AI capabilities and supporting financial services clients in navigating an increasingly data-driven and technology-enabled landscape. merle pierre-antoine   #Data #FinancialServices #Leadership

Sia is delighted to announce the appointment of Cesar Moukarzel, PhD as Partner.    Based in Dubai, UAE, Cesar leads Citizen Services initiatives at global level. He spearheads engagements across the government sectors across the Middle East, specializing in strategy development and execution, innovation management, and large-scale transformation programs. He advises government senior officials and policy-makers and works with public sector organizations to deliver ambitious transformation agendas that create lasting impact and support national priorities. His appointment reflects our commitment to supporting governments and public institutions as they navigate complex transformation challenges and drive innovation at scale. #PublicSector #Innovation #TransformationManagement