Robert N. Brisco, a 29-year-old management consultant,...

Robert N. Brisco, a 29-year-old management consultant, has joined the Los Angeles Times in the new position of director of business planning and advertising operations.

Brisco comes to The Times from the national management consulting firm McKinsey & Co., where he worked on major projects for The Times and the newspaper’s parent company, Times Mirror Co. Among those projects was the redesign of The Times’ Orange County Edition. Previously, he was a research associate at another major consulting firm, Boston Consulting Group.