But a political campaign may not be as susceptible to the strategies of management consulting as a business, where advising a corporation to reinvent itself is standard practice.
"Where we advised one lock to prevent fraud from occurring, they put in two," she said.
Before setting up Merchant Equity Partners, Jackson was a managing director at Deutsche Bank, where he advised on retail sector mergers and acquisitions.
He had spent two years in Sierra Leone, where he advised the tribunal that was prosecuting war crimes.
After eight years there, he joined the Boston Consulting Group in 2010, where he advised companies on the virtues of digital technology.
The bride's father retired as a managing director of Bear Stearns in New York, where he advised companies on mergers and on raising money.
Industrial policy, relations with Russia and the wider world, especially China, where he advised the Beijing government and often defended it, were frequent topics.
In 2001 Moyo joined the global investment firm Goldman Sachs, where she advised developing countries on the issuing of bonds on the international market.
But, as a bureaucrat in the 1930s, Mr Fukuda spent some of his formative years in China, where he advised the pro-Japanese puppet government in Nanjing.
However, he's unlikely to mention in his interview his secondment to ill-fated bank Barings in the mid-1980s, where he advised on the privatisation of British Leyland.
