Consulting firm StrategyCorp adds infrastructure expert Mike Cautillo

Toronto-headquartered consulting firm StrategyCorp has hired infrastructure and procurement expert Mike Cautillo. In his 40-year career, Cautillo, a former Deloitte partner, has managed and worked on numerous high-profile transportation and infrastructure projects in Canada and abroad.

StrategyCorp provides public affairs, strategic communications, and management consulting services to private and public sector organizations working in complex and highly scrutinized environments. The firm’s multidisciplinary team of advisors analyze client challenges through business, political, and communications lenses to build strategies that drive success. StrategyCorp helps organizations tackle challenging business issues such as mergers, high-profile foreign investments, environmental approvals, and major infrastructure developments.

As a senior adviser at StrategyCorp, Cautillo will support public and private sector clients with his extensive experience developing infrastructure projects, from concept to completion. He also has deep expertise in the design of innovative public-private partnership procurements. 

Cautillo was the first president and CEO of federal crown corporation Windsor-Detroit Bridge Authority, which is responsible for administering the construction of the Gordie Howe International Bridge. In the role, he launched the procurement process that resulted in the selection of a private sector partner to construct the six-lane, 2.5km-long crossing.

Cautillo also spent more than 10 years at Deloitte, where he was a partner in the Big Four firm’s Ontario Infrastructure Advisory and Project Finance group. As a civil engineer, Cautillo worked for all three levels of government in Canada - federal, provincial, and municipal

“Mike Cautillo offers a unique ability to advance projects, seek solutions and get things done,” StrategyCorp stated in a release. “His knowledge and experience developing infrastructure projects from concept to completion, including designing innovative public-private partnership procurements, will enhance StrategyCorp's ability to work with clients and governments to deliver the best value for taxpayers.”