Art Hutchinson is Founding Principal at Cartegic Group, an Azul Partners affiliate, which specializes in strategic thinking using interactive scenarios. He is an innovator and veteran of scenario-based processes, helping clients to forge practical strategy and enhance organizational resilience under conditions of high uncertainty and discontinuous change. He is a seasoned writer, speaker, advisor, and executive, having spent two decades working with management teams at some of the world's most prominent global organizations, as well as some lesser-known, but highly successful start-ups and ‘intrapreneuring’ ventures.

Prior to working with Azul Partners and launching Cartegic Group, Art spent seven years at Northeast Consulting (acquired by NerveWire, which was later acquired by Wipro). There, in addition to leading the financial services practices, he oversaw a wide range of engagements for a range of large, global corporate clients to look at alternative futures for IT investment relative to business scenarios, customer-focused product/service development, and corporate and business unit strategy.

Prior to his tenure at Northeast Consulting, Art was Director of Consulting Services at BIS Strategic Decisions, (now part of Forrester Research), where he helped a range of IT product and service providers to develop new products and effective marketing and distribution strategies to go with them. Before BIS, Art ran the Distribution Channels Information Service at International Data Corp. (IDC) where he advised computing and software vendor clients on their distribution channel and market access programs.

Art is a founding member of the Digital Commerce Society of Boston (DCSB), started in 1995, and the font of his continuing interest in applying so-called ‘prediction markets’ to complex planning problems. He writes extensively on the interplay between business strategy and rapid technology evolution, and speaks and teaches at a range of industry events and symposia. Recently, he chaired a panel at the Conference Board on Measuring Innovation Success. Art earned his BA from Williams College. In his spare time, he is a competitive endurance athlete, having completed the Boston Marathon several times, six Ironman triathlons, and several ultra-marathon (50 and 100 mile) runs.