Christopher Welch

Christopher Welch

Director
Senior Leader
Cleveland

Christopher is a Director at INSIGHT2PROFIT with over 15 years of industry and consulting experience in strategy, pricing, finance, and commercial leadership roles serving companies in chemicals, manufacturing, industrial distribution, and education.

Prior to joining INSIGHT, Christopher led commercial, marketing, pricing, and strategy teams at PPG Industries.  In addition, he served for four years as a U.S . Army officer.

Examples of Christopher’s experience include:

  • Led an engagement with a large U.S. B2B manufacturer that involved identifying and allocating significant cost-to-serve elements such as purchase price variance, freight, rebates, and payment terms
  • Led an engagement with a large HVAC distributor that aligned pricing processes among multiple recent acquisitions and identified multiple areas of profit leakage resulting in a margin increase of over 10%
  • Drove an engagement focused on aligning costing processes between a large multinational supplier to the metalworking industry; identifying several crucial disconnects due to acquisitions and ERPs, enabling consistent costing and pricing capture.
  • Spearheaded marketing, pricing, business development, and Canadian sales for large protective coatings supplier.
  • Held multiple finance roles, including corporate FP&A, finance manager for a large, flat glass producer, and internal auditor; experienced in analytics, costing, forecasting, and budgeting

Christopher earned his MBA in Finance and a BBA in Accounting from the University of Notre Dame.