Commercial Growth

Alex is a Principal at INSIGHT2PROFIT with 10 years of experience as a pricing consultant. He excels in defining pricing strategy, developing pricing excellence roadmaps, enhancing salesforce effectiveness, providing negotiation training, and delivering targeted high-yield price increases with our partners.

Examples of Alex’s experience include:

• Launched pricing process for a protein distributor with revenues exceeding $4B, providing profit-maximizing weekly price recommendations to approximately 80 buyers across 12 branches, resulting in a $7M pricing impact over 18 months
• Developed contract negotiation package, timeline, and best practices for a $700M industrial firm, including terms and conditions, scorecard, competitive scorecard, optimal timeline with stakeholder inclusion, and price scenario calculator
• Created $1M lift on $30M of revenue through a target price incentive program at a mid-size eCommerce company; secured management buy in, leveraged dashboard reporting, and aligned incentives to deliver results
• Identified $4M in discounting leakage leveraging a percentile-based peer benchmark model at a manufacturer with revenues exceeding $250M; built a recommendation engine to capture the price leakage and realign price positioning

Alex earned his MBA in Finance with a focus in Pricing from the University of Rochester, Simon Business School and a B.S. in Finance from Penn State University.

Amanda is a Director of Business Development at INSIGHT2PROFIT. Amanda has over 7 years of experience with INSIGHT and specializes in identifying profit opportunities and devising solutions to drive sustainable and scalable impact.

She began her career at INSIGHT as a member of our Delivery team where she led dynamic price modeling, hands-on change management and continuous improvement initiatives. Now, Amanda leverages her experience to lead our Business Development group, ensuring new client partnerships have a clear and value accretive scope, with a shared vision of success.

Amanda earned her B.A. in Economics and Management with a minor in Leadership Studies from Marietta College.

Andy is the Director of Market Intelligence at INSIGHT2PROFIT, possessing over 16 years of experience. Andy has overseen consulting engagements across a diverse array of B2B and B2C markets, encompassing packaging, industrial equipment, building materials, industrial distribution, SaaS solutions, EdTech, and consumer durables and nondurables.

Throughout his career, Andy has led hundreds of market intelligence engagements for private equity firms, Global 500 companies, and other industry leaders, facilitating revenue and profit growth through actionable market insights. He specializes in designing complex research programs leveraging expert interviews, survey research, and secondary data sources to compile the necessary market and competitive intelligence for successful long-term strategies. His areas of expertise include voice-of-customer analysis, competitive intelligence, market size assessments, channel intelligence, and identifying customer needs.

Prior to joining INSIGHT, Andy spent 13 years at The Freedonia Group, a provider of market intelligence consulting services for strategic decision-making in B2B and industrial markets. In his last five years at Freedonia, Andy led their Custom Research division, overseeing research delivery and revenue growth. Prior roles at Freedonia included Project Manager and Senior Research Analyst, where he refined his skills in competitive intelligence, market analysis, voice-of-customer analysis, primary research, consulting, and project management.

Andy earned his M.A. in Economics from Cleveland State University and a B.A. in Economics and International Affairs from Xavier University.

Andy is the Senior Vice President of Transaction Services at INSIGHT2PROFIT, where he leads the Transaction Services Practice. There, he partners with private equity firms, their portfolio companies, and other transaction advisors to add significant value to the mergers & acquisition process by developing the data foundation and analytics, identifying enterprise value creation opportunities and risks, and developing the growth roadmap and strategy. With over 25 years of consulting and commercial experience, Andy is a trusted advisor to private equity firms, their portfolio companies and investment banks. He spearheaded the launch of INSIGHT’s Quality of Pricing® service offerings to support buy-side, exit planning and sell-side due diligence, and post-acquisition value creation.

Prior to joining INSIGHT, he founded and served as President of Freedonia Custom Research, a division of The Freedonia Group, providing growth consulting and market analytics to Global 1000 companies, private equity firms and investment banks across a wide range of industries. He started his career with Ernst & Young and Capgemini serving clients across industries with operational improvement and business transformation engagements and led Sales Operations for the Capgemini’s Technology Consulting group as part of The Leadership Development Program.

Andy earned his MBA at Case Western Reserve University, Weatherhead School of Management and completed his B.A. degree in History from Hamilton College.

Chris is the Vice President of Sales at INSIGHT2PROFIT, bringing over 25 years of leadership experience focused on organizational growth, sustainable change management, and project leadership. He collaborates with both corporate entities and private equity firms to uncover business potential, leveraging strategic and operational improvements to enhance existing pricing methods. Chris’s expertise in pricing and change management helps clients identify and capitalize on often overlooked opportunities for margin enhancement, demonstrating how even slight price improvements can significantly boost their EBITDA.

Chris is well-versed in various aspects of the business landscape, specializing in Price Management, Pricing Strategy, Price Leaks, Software Development, Change Management, Project Management, B2B, and Private Equity.

Chris earned his B.S. in Finance from John Carroll University.

Gary is a Principal at INSIGHT2PROFIT, bringing over 20 years of experience dedicated to unlocking growth within the consumer, hospitality, retail, and technology sectors. He co-founded a technology start-up in the dining space, played a pivotal role in the growth of an early online-to-offline hospitality commerce business, and led marketing and e-commerce for a Private Equity-backed B2B enterprise.

Gary is passionate about growing businesses by integrating science (data, algorithms) with art (change management, effectiveness) across industries. He excels in pricing strategy, growth strategy, and general management.

Examples of Gary’s experience include:

• Led discovery for an environmental services business, identifying and implementing opportunities to drive a 10% incremental profit, actions included addressing peer-price-index outliers, improving fee/surcharge realization, enforcing list-prices in advantaged areas, establishing analytics capability, and implementing governance/cadence for sustained gains
• Led assessment and implementation of customer-specific repricing of lists and discounts and pricing quick-wins for a multinational transportation and logistics services company, targeting $45M of incremental profit
• Led assessment and implementation of target inflationary price adjustments, margin floor implementation, measurement and reporting structure and capability for an industrial equipment manufacturer, generating mid-single-digit impact for core products and double-digit impact for parts.
• Led design and implementation of a segmented margin-target model for a transportation services business with nationwide operation, generating 8% revenue impact to the bottom-line during the pilot phase

Gary earned his MBA from Northwestern University, Kellogg School of Management and a B.S. in Engineering and Computer Engineering from McGill University.

Gerry is a Managing Principal at INSIGHT2PROFIT. Gerry has 9 years of experience in pricing and commercial strategy across various roles, including consultant, manager, senior manager, and director. He specializes in B2B pricing, particularly for industrial equipment, heavy machinery, chemicals, and industrial manufacturers and distributors. He has also collaborated with several B2C clients in industries such as leather goods, white goods, face care, and consumer product goods.

Prior to joining INSIGHT, Gerry spent 8 years as part of the Accenture Strategy team in the Pricing and Commercial Strategy group. During his tenure at Accenture, Gerry worked in sales enablement, zero-based budgeting, and in pricing and commercial strategy.

Examples of Gerry’s experience include:

• Led a project contributing $80M in EBITDA improvement over 16 months by implementing a value-based pricing methodology across the portfolio for a heavy trucking OEM
• Achieved a 2.5% net price improvement during inflationary headwinds for a B2B valve and industrial equipment portfolio company encompassing over 30 distinct brands, implemented a configurable custom quoting tool and PowerBI KPI dashboard utilized across 15+ brands, providing ongoing support for continuous improvement over multiple years
• Delivered over $50M in EBITDA improvement as the pricing project lead for an industrial equipment manufacturer through value-based pricing strategy and implementation

Gerry earned his MBA from the Goizueta Business School at Emory University, M.Ed. in Secondary Education and Teaching from the University of Missouri-Saint Louis, and a BBA in International Business from the University of Georgia.