BLUE RIDGE PARTNERS

Blue Ridge Partners was formed in 2002 as a niche consulting firm for the specific purpose of helping companies optimize top-line revenue performance and the margins associated with those revenues. Blue Ridge Partners focuses exclusively on helping companies accelerate profitable revenue growth. Blue Ridge Partners has earned high marks from private equity firms by delivering material, rapid and cost effective results for them and their portfolio companies. Blue Ridge Partners selected this ... area of specialization because revenue growth is the #1 driver of value creation—58% of all value creation comes from revenue growth. In accelerating growth, Blue Ridge Partners considers strategic growth options such as entering new end markets, expanding geographically and adding new products and services. Blue Ridge Partners also helps strengthen company execution by enhancing sales force effectiveness, optimizing channel performance, improving marketing programs, optimizing pricing and strengthening sales and marketing leadership skills. Most of Blue Ridge Partners' senior leaders come from large strategy consulting firms, but they have also led businesses. These combined experiences yield a natural focus on strategic issues in complex markets, with a highly pragmatic approach and a focus on implementation. Blue Ridge Partners works with Fortune 500, middle market companies and private equity firms and their portfolio companies to analyze their revenue engine performance, identify opportunities for improvement and then work side by side with their clients to implement action plans that drive incremental revenues and the margins associated with those revenues. Since 2002, Blue Ridge Partners has worked with over 300 companies in North America, Europe, Latin America, and Asia/Pacific. The professionals who founded Blue Ridge Partners firm had extensive experience both as revenue growth consultants at global management consulting firms and as line business executives with direct responsibility for profitable revenue growth.More