Ben Aplanalp is a Principal with Cicero Group, now part of MGT. Ben has extensive experience in the industries of Higher Education, Oil & Gas, Commercial Development, Transportation/Logistics, Biotech, SaaS, and Education-focused Non-Profits. He has led consultant teams in solving clients’ business challenges in the areas of brand identity, customer segmentation, new product launch, process optimization, post-merger integration, strategy development, change management, and salesforce transformation. Ben drives impact through strategic thinking and thoughtful implementation, utilizing data-driven strategies to achieve meaningful, sustainable improvement for client partners.
Most recently, Ben has been working with clients in the Higher Ed. sector to assess market expansion and market entry opportunities, optimize inquiry-to-enrollment processes, measure institutional brand equity, conduct student segmentation studies, and devise strategies to better serve the needs of non-traditional students.
Prior to joining Cicero, Ben worked for 5 years as a Management Consultant/Project Manager with the Canadian firm, RLG International. There he partnered with clients to optimize operations and capital projects, and to develop leadership teams. In this role, Ben spent 3+ years living and working in Australia with various multinational Oil & Gas companies in the LNG (Liquefied Natural Gas) sector. Prior to his role with RLG, Ben worked as an Account Manager with Hilti Inc. serving San Diego area clients in Alternative Energy, Public Utilities and Shipbuilding.
Ben has earned an MBA from the Thunderbird School of Global Management and a bachelor’s degree in Finance from the University of Utah.
