Blue Ridge Partners Taps Consumer Growth Specialist Carrie Shea as Managing Director

Veteran consultant brings deep expertise in leveraging data and AI to unlock new growth opportunities

Blue Ridge Partners is thrilled to announce that Carrie Shea has joined the firm as a Managing Director. Carrie brings more than 25 years of experience helping consumer-driven businesses and distribution companies accelerate profitable growth through data-driven insights, strategic innovation, pricing, and go-to-market excellence. Carrie will lead Blue Ridge Partners’ Consumer-Driven Industries practice.

Carrie began her career at Lexicon, an economic consulting firm, before joining Kearney, where she became one of the firm’s youngest partners. After thirteen successful years at Kearney, she helped found three award-winning start-up consultancies, two of which were acquired by larger firms: Archstone Consulting (now part of The Hackett Group) and Griffin Strategic Advisors, LLC (now part of Acosta).

She has also held senior leadership roles at several global organizations, including President and Chief Transformation Officer of Ipsos North America, Managing Partner of IRI/Circana’s Strategic Growth Consulting Division, and Managing Director in PwC’s Strategy & Digital Transformation Practice.

Named one of Consulting Magazine’s Top 25 Consultants, Carrie is highly experienced in demand-based growth strategy, go-to-market strategy, revenue growth management, innovation, and demand due diligence. She is passionate about combining behavioral, attitudinal, competitive, and pricing data with advanced analytics and AI to identify and prioritize organic, acquisitive, and white-space growth opportunities.

“Carrie is an outstanding addition to our leadership team,” said Jim Corey, CEO of Blue Ridge Partners. “Her ability to connect insight with action, and to drive growth across both consumer and distribution sectors, aligns perfectly with our mission of helping clients unlock sustainable, profitable growth.”

Carrie holds an MBA from The University of Chicago Booth School of Business and is based out of Naples, FL.

About Blue Ridge Partners:

Blue Ridge Partners is a global management consulting firm exclusively focused on helping companies accelerate profitable revenue growth. We have worked with more than 1,300 companies to improve their strategic understanding of markets and customers, deepen and expand their customer relationships, and enhance marketing and sales performance.

Our clients include over 130 private equity firms and their portfolio companies – supporting them during deal evaluation, due diligence, and post-acquisition. We have a reputation for helping companies grow faster by rolling up our sleeves, working collaboratively, and delivering measurable impact quickly and more efficiently than large consultancies.

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