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Mr. Lussier works out of the New York, Philadelphia and London offices of Celera Partners. Grant is the founder of the Celera Value Based Selling (VBS) Solutions Group. Grant is recognized by industry insiders as one of the world’s premier thought leaders regarding Value Based Selling (VBS) best practices for sales/marketing management. His VBS practice helps clients achieve faster sustainable organic growth. Grant’s VBS practice helps clients achieve sales/marketing excellence through changes in organizational structure, processes and information systems. As a senior member of the firms domestic and international executive search practice, since 1994, Grant has recruited more than 250 senior level executives primarily in Financial Services, IT (HW/SW), Telecommunications (carriers-datacom) and Media companies. He specializes in recruiting senior level executives for publicly traded companies and "C" level executives for venture capital and private equity portfolio companies. Mr. Lussier has conducted Board searches and "C" level executive recruiting assignments for global 3,000 companies throughout the Americas, Europe and the Far East. A partial list of previous clients include Accenture, AT&T, MCI, Nextel, Nortel, Sony, Toshiba, GE Capital, Komatsu, Citibank, New York Life, McGraw-Hill, Columbia TriStar Pictures, SAP. A partial list of Venture Capital clients include Bessemer Venture Partners, Columbia Capital, JP Morgan Capital, Chase Capital Partners, Bluestream Ventures, Prism Venture Partners, Zero Stage Capital and Advent International. Prior to Celera Partners, Mr. Lussier was a partner and managing director at Heidrick & Struggles and Spencer Stuart. During his tenure as Chairman and Country Manager for Spencer Stuart in Mexico, Grant built the fastest growing executive search firm in the history of Latin America. As a strategy consultant with Arthur D. Little, Grant worked with global 3,000 corporations providing business unit portfolio analysis, assessed international acquisitions and divestitures and cross-border investment strategies. As a practice leader of the firm’s Hispanic Specialty practice, Grant remains intimately involved with senior executive leaders and public service officials throughout the Americas. Mr. Lussier was raised in Buenos Aires, Argentina and received a B.A. degree in International Relations from Brown University. He is fluent in Spanish, Portuguese and English. Upon graduation, Grant was the founder and for 11 years the CEO of 3XM, Inc. a pioneer in CAD-CAM CNC software. | 