Jon  Huggett

Partner

Jon Huggett joined Bridgespan in 2005 as a partner in the San Francisco office and in 2007 helped establish the New York office, where he is currently located. He brings to Bridgespan more than 25 years of experience in leading enterprises and advising leaders of both private and social sector organizations, and has helped Bridgespan clients tackle issues that include growth with constrained resources, picking programs for growth from large portfolios, and taking proven programs to new areas.

He is the co-author, with Caitrin Moran, of “RAPIDSM Decision-Making: What it is, why we like it, and how to get the most out of it ”; of “Replicating High-Performing Public Schools ” with Kimberly Wicoff and Bridgespan partner Don Howard; and of the Bridgespan case study “The Association for the Advancement of Mexican Americans: Focusing for Impact ” with Amy Saxton. He has presented Bridgespan research to audiences in the US, Sweden and Australia.

Prior to joining Bridgespan, as a partner with Bain & Company in Johannesburg and Toronto, Jon helped clients with opportunities ranging from e-commerce to delivering profitable banking services to the poor and transforming the tax service of post-apartheid South Africa. Independently, he advised the Open Society Institute on its microfinance strategy; developed a growth strategy for Nurcha, a South African nonprofit that has financed the building of over 100,000 homes for low-income families; and counseled the board of Choice Humanitarian, a global development NGO, in Mexico and Cambodia. Earlier in his career, Jon worked for The Boston Consulting Group in San Francisco and New York. He has also run three companies: a $75M health care operation on four continents; Bannock Consulting, a London-based firm focused on economic development in emerging countries; and PlanetOut, the premier lesbian and gay Web portal.

Jon has served as a community organizer and the board president of the STOP AIDS Project in San Francisco, a nonprofit dedicated to preventing HIV infection, where he also led teams of street outreach educators. He has taught business at the American Graduate School of International Management in Phoenix and at Leeuwkop Prison, near Johannesburg. His articles and quotes have been published in Stanford Business, Business 2.0, Business Day (the leading business daily in South Africa) and The Globe and Mail (Canada's largest circulation national daily newspaper).

He began his career at Procter & Gamble, after receiving his BA and MA from Oxford University, and went on to earn his MBA from Stanford University's Graduate School of Business, where he graduated as an Arjay Miller Scholar.