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ABOUT HARBOR LABS

Built To Help
Industrial Leaders
Define The Future.

Harbor Labs is a global management consulting firm built for the businesses that build, make, move, and power the world. We partner with CEOs and leadership teams to set strategy, transform operations, and accelerate growth - wherever they compete.

We exist for one reason: to help our clients create such high levels of value that, together, we set a new standard of excellence in their industry.

15+

Years in Operation

450+

Years of Experience Delivered

30+

Countries Served

7

Global Offices

What We Do

One Firm. Three Practice Areas.
Integrated By Design.

Harbor Labs brings strategy, operations, and growth into a single, coherent advisory model. We don't hand you a slide deck and walk away - our teams work alongside yours from insight to implementation, accountable for outcomes.

Strategy

  • - Competitive positioning and portfolio design
  • - M&A, integration, and value capture
  • - Innovation systems and adjacency growth
  • - Enterprise transformation programs

Operations

  • - Supply chain, manufacturing, and procurement
  • - People, organization, and culture
  • - Sustainability and net-zero execution

Growth

  • - Customer experience and proposition design
  • - Commercial models, sales, and marketing
  • - Technology, AI, and decision intelligence
What We Do

Our Story

Fifteen Years Of
Industrial Expertise.

2019

Founded in Cleveland

Harbor Labs is founded by a team of former industrial operators and technology leaders, management consulting alumni, focused on serving industrial leaders who were underserved by generalist consulting firms.

2020

Asia-Pacific Expansion

Offices open in Singapore and Tokyo to serve clients navigating supply chain and commercial complexity in Asia during the global pandemic. We deliver our first 50 cross-border engagements within 18 months.

2021

Launched Growth Practice

As clients begin asking for help beyond operational transformation, we build out a dedicated Growth practice covering commercial models, customer experience, and early-stage data capabilities.

2022

Built Harbor AI

We launch Harbor AI - a proprietary suite of diagnostic and modeling tools that compress time-to-insight on complex engagements. It is now embedded across every practice area.

2023

European Expansion

We open London and Ireland to serve European industrial leaders navigating energy transition, supply-chain reshoring, and consolidation.

Today

A Global Industrial Firm

Seven global offices. 40+ completed engagements. 100+ consultants across three integrated practice areas. Harbor Labs is one of the world's leading consulting firms for industrial and commercial businesses.

Our Philosophy

What We Believe.

We believe that bold steps define the future. That the ambition to lead requires the courage to adapt. And that doing the right thing is rarely easy, but always worth it.

Our values aren't wall art. They shape how we choose clients, how we structure engagements, how we measure success, and how we behave when the work gets hard.

Truth Over Comfort

We tell clients what they need to hear, not what they want to hear. A relationship built on honest diagnosis is worth more than one built on validation.

Action Beats Analysis

Insight without action is noise. We build urgency into every engagement - moving from diagnosis to execution faster than clients expect.

Client Capability First

We measure success by how much stronger your team is at the end of the engagement. We build capability in, not dependency.

Global Rigor, Local Sense

Industrial businesses operate across borders. We combine global analytical rigor with local market knowledge to generate advice that actually works in context.

Evidence Over Opinion

Our recommendations are grounded in data, benchmarks, and proprietary research - not intuition or received wisdom. We challenge our own assumptions as hard as we challenge yours.

Long-Term Relationships

We don't optimize for billable hours. We optimize for client outcomes - because our reputation is built on the businesses that grew, restructured, and endured because we were in their corner.

One Team

We work as one global team - with each other and with our clients - to direct collective energy toward extraordinary outcomes.

Our People

Leadership Team.

Our partners are operators, investors, and advisors with decades of experience across the industries we serve. They lead the work - and own the outcome.

Murthy Talasila

CEO & Managing Partner

25+ years of leadership in Insurance Technology and Manufacturing across North America and Asia-Pacific. Former COO & Principal. Leads our M&A, portfolio strategy, and market-expansion work across manufacturing and technology. Built Harbor AI and leads all data, analytics, and technology advisory work.

Vinod Vemparala

Managing Partner, Growth & Operations

A results-driven sales executive with over 30 years of experience in industrial and global markets. He has held leadership roles at major materials and chemical companies, buildingteams, launching products, developing greenfield strategies, and consistently driving revenue growth. An MBA in International Business combined with graduate degrees in Chemical Engineering brings a unique blend of technical depth and commercial expertiseto the Harbor Labs team.

Dr. Bill Kedia

Managing Partner, Healthcare AI & Life Sciences

Over 30 years of leading and practicing Healthcare. Data scientist and commercial strategist for Healthcare AI and Life Science practice. Active Investor and Partner in a major retail pharmacy chain across the US.

Rajeev Vadlamudi

Partner & Managing Director, APAC Region

Twenty-five years across real estate, automotive, consumer products, retail, and industrial goods. Leads the firm's APAC region and our cross-border M&A capability.

Client Results

Outcomes At Scale.

$1.2B+

Value Created for Clients

18mo

Average Payback Window

92%

Clients Re-Engage In 3 Years

4/5

Transformations Ahead Of Plan

Our Global Responsibility

We Hold Ourselves To The Same Standard
We Ask Of Clients.

Sustainability

Harbor Labs is a carbon-neutral firm. Our internal sustainability practice operates as a fee-paying client of the same standards we ask our clients to meet.

Social Impact

Through Harbor Labs Social Impact, our consultants contribute 1000+ pro-bono hours annually to nonprofits and social enterprises driving systems-level change in education, climate, and economic mobility.

Ready To Talk?

Choose Extraordinary

We Work With Ambitious Leaders
Who Want To Define The Future.

Together, we achieve extraordinary outcomes - measured not in slide decks, but in the businesses that grew, restructured, and endured because we were in their corner.