Umbrex is pleased to welcome Michael Parrott. Michael spent 5 years in Operations and Digital at McKinsey & Company and 4 years as a generalist at Mars & Company. In industry, he had short visits at Anheuser Busch InBev and e-Xstream engineering. Michael has expertise in ‘digital transformations’ of corporate functions, having led multiple transformations for supply chain, procurement and finance functions. While his program is more functional, his primary industry focus is the consumer sector, as well as transportation…

  David Gross provides the first article in a series that illustrates the changes taking place in the US retail sector and what this means for consumers.  In this new series, “Irreversible Change in US Retail,” we explore the sweeping restructuring taking place in the retail industry. Most importantly, we explore the implications for consumers—a topic overshadowed by all of the talk about retailers, their suppliers, and their landlords. While this restructuring started prior to COVID’s arrival, COVID accelerated the…

Umbrex is pleased to welcome Udayan Mittal.  Udayan Mittal spent over 6 years at McKinsey where he joined as a BA and left as an Engagement Manager. During his time at McKinsey he worked across multiple geographies in Asia and North America, focusing on life sciences (pharma) and consumer sectors. Outside of McKinsey he has worked at J.P. Morgan and most recently at eBay where he was the Principal of the Corporate Strategy team. He has expertise in Strategy Consulting…

Umbrex is pleased to welcome Gennadiy Goldenshteyn with First Principles. Gennadiy Goldenshteyn is leveraging almost 20 years consulting and progressive line leadership experience to launch his own consulting firm, First Principles, in September 2019. First Principles breaks down seemingly complex strategy and operations problems down to their foundational basics (i.e., first principles) and creates implementation programs to systemically drive improvement. Areas of Gennadiy’s expertise include: Product-driven and customer-focused innovation and growth strategy, based on principles of Design-to-Value and Design Thinking…