What mattered most to Rick was delivering measurable, year-over-year results that clients actually cared about. That meant earnings and revenue growth more often than not, but not exclusively. With that focus in mind, he founded Inside Consulting in 2005, building a team around business performance improvement across a range of contexts: EBITDA optimization ahead of a sale, company turnaround, cost reduction, revenue enhancement, and operational due diligence.

Before founding IC, Rick served as a Lieutenant in the U.S. Navy Nuclear Submarine Force before earning his MBA and joining McKinsey & Co., where he advised Fortune 500 clients on business strategy. He subsequently moved into industry, holding senior roles as Director of Global Strategy at Thomson Reuters and Vice President of Marketing for one of its high-growth publishing businesses.

Education

Rick holds a B.S. in Chemistry from the University of Minnesota, a master’s-equivalent in Nuclear Engineering from the U.S. Navy, and an MBA with honors from the University of Chicago. He received the Naval Nuclear Engineering certification in 1998.

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His consulting experience spans multiple sectors: from financial services to B2B technology firms to healthcare. Mac’s work has focused on strategy development and implementation, often in the context of organizational restructuring/ turnaround programs, sales force effectiveness programs, or operational efficiency/procurement optimization.

Mac’s prior background as a combat-arms military officer honed his ability to form and lead diverse teams to accomplish tough tasks in dynamic environments. In his consulting work, Mac specializes in leading cross-functional and integrated (client + consultant) teams to diagnose issues and prioritize improvement initiatives thru fact-based analytics.

While with the Boston Consulting Group, Mac attained the grade of Principal early and received several awards for client service, innovation, and team development. While with MWH Global, Mac was the VP of Strategy and Business Development and led a restructuring of a $1.5B global engineering consultancy, winning industry recognition. Before pursuing management consulting, Mac served as a US Army Infantry Officer where he was a Rifle Platoon Leader, Company Executive Officer, and a Battalion Personnel Officer.

Mac graduated from the United States Military Academy (West Point) with a Bachelor’s in Quantitative Economics and he obtained his MBA with honors from the Wharton School.

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Before consulting, Dan served 14 years as a Navy pilot, leading teams across Operations, Maintenance, Administration, and Safety functions in active aviation squadrons. In those roles, he redesigned complex operational processes, directed large-scale mission planning efforts, and built alignment across organizations from senior leadership to the front line.

At McKinsey, Dan contributed to high-stakes turnarounds at Fortune 100 companies, identifying performance gaps, designing pragmatic improvement roadmaps, and executing transformations across cost structure, procurement, operational processes, and organizational design.

Education

Dan graduated from the United States Naval Academy, earned an MBA from Dartmouth’s Tuck School of Business, and is a Lean Six Sigma Green Belt.

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David’s prior experience as a combat veteran and combat-arms officer has honed his ability to lead and manage diverse teams in high-stress environments. In his consulting work, David specializes in leading cross-functional teams (i.e., client + consultant) to diagnose issues and prioritize improvement initiatives through fact-based analytics.

David was also the Founder and CEO of MaxPatient, a patient communication platform which optimized private practice physician utilization through SMS and email. While at NBCUniversal, David led multiple projects to include the TV Everywhere content rights initiative which allowed NBCU to stream content across all mobile platforms. His work was recognized by the EVP of content distribution and presented to the CEO. Before pursuing management consulting, David served as a US Army Armor Officer where he was an Armor Platoon Leader, Company Executive Officer, and Company Commander. His military service included deployments to Kuwait in 2002 and Iraq in 2003.

Education

David graduated from the United States Military Academy (West Point) with a Bachelor’s in Applied Economics, and he obtained his MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.

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After completing his MBA, John spent two years at the Boston Consulting Group where he focused on commercial strategy, and transformation at a variety of manufacturing, energy, and industrial clients. John left BCG to co-found a quantum computing hardware business, Maybell Quantum Industries, where he gained valuable experience understanding how critical domestic manufacturing is for the security & strength of our nation. John then served as an executive at a PE backed Aerospace & Defense manufacturing firm, Primus Aerospace, before leaving and starting his own independent consulting business within aerospace & defense manufacturing.

John’s prior experience as a Professional Engineer has honed his ability to understand some of the most challenging technical problems facing businesses today. This allows him to get his hands dirty from the ground up with critical operators and engineers, while also taking an executive top down approach to understand the big picture, and execute on critical value driving work.

Education

John graduated from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo with a Bachelor’s in Mechanical Engineering, and earned his MBA from the Wharton School of Business.

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He has deep expertise in designing and leading large-scale transformations and capital deployment across telecom, electric power, nuclear, natural gas, and water industries, and optimizing large, distributed workforce operations.

Prior to business school, Drew was a licensed Professional Engineer with Dewberry, focused on water resources.

Education

Drew graduated from the University of Virginia with a BA and from Virginia Tech with a Masters in Civil Engineering. He earned his MBA from Duke (Fuqua).

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Previously, he worked at McKinsey & Company for four years- focusing on health care and industrial operations (procurement). He also served as the Managing Director of Product and Strategy at Evolent, a specialty care management company focused on cardiology and oncology.

Education

Jason graduated from Georgetown University with a BS in International Economics. He earned his MBA from Columbia.

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Previously, Will worked at PWC in Due Diligence and Post Merger Acquisition topic areas. While there he conducted buy-side and sell-side diligence on over 25 technology M&A transactions ranging from $1 billion to $7 billion, providing critical commercial insights into ARR and Net Dollar Retention across customer cohorts, markets, products, and sales teams.

Education

Will graduated from the United States Military Academy (West Point) and he obtained his MBA from SMU (Cox).

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Prior named clients include Johnson and Johnson, Zimmer Biomet, Safeguard Medical, and Terex Heavy Equipment. Prior to joining Inside Consulting, Jason held roles with progressive responsibilities at Kaplan, Tyson Foods, and General Motors.

Education

Jason graduated with a Master of Science in Engineering from George Washington University, and he obtained his MBA from University of Michigan.

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