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Kevin McCarty is a member of the management team of West Monroe Partners and one of its co-founders. Kevin currently is the Managing Director of West Monroe Partners’ Chicago Office, our largest and most established office. Applying more than 15 years of global business and technology experience, Kevin’s market-facing role is in leading the company’s Merger & Acquisition (M&A) and Healthcare practices. Kevin and the West Monroe Partners M&A team have executed more than 250 transaction-related projects including due diligence and merger integration services related to technology and business processes.
Highlights
Kevin McCarty is a solutions-oriented executive who combines business acumen and technology expertise to strategize, design, develop, and deliver high impact results for clients. Together with his teams, Kevin has personally served more than 200 clients throughout his professional consulting career.
Kevin currently leads West Monroe Partners’ Healthcare and Merger & Acquisition practices, which focus on business process optimization, packaged software selection and implementation, business intelligence, IT due diligence and post-close integration, and executive advisory services for chief financial officers and chief information officers. He has guided the evolution of West Monroe Partners’ capabilities in this area from a collection of services to an integrated set of solutions designed to empower executives by facilitating the processes, systems, tools, and resources they need to drive better business results. Today, under Kevin’s leadership, West Monroe Partners maintains a team of highly experienced business and technology consultants who work with clients across a broad range of industries and deliver deep expertise in financial services, investments, insurance, healthcare, consumer packaged goods, and energy & utilities.
Throughout his consulting career, Kevin has led innovative projects for some of the largest global companies and non-profit associations. His current focus is on working with middle-market businesses--typically ranging from $100 million to $2 billion in revenue--and high potential entrepreneurial start-ups, spin-offs, or incubators. Accordingly, Kevin’s expertise is sought nationwide by strategic and financial buyers, including leading private equity and venture capital organizations. Kevin spends a substantial portion of his time conducting due diligence to advise these organizations on the IT and business process implications of potential investments. He then leads the execution of mergers and acquisitions, carve outs, divestitures, and integrations of businesses into a platform or under a holding company. He has led IT and operational diligence and post-close transition work for more than 250 M&A deals over the past six years.
Experienced across many industries, Kevin's business strategy, process, and systems depth is best exhibited by his work with information- and data-rich organizations, as well as businesses with transaction-intensive operations such as those in the insurance, capital markets, and trading industries. He has worked with high-profile health plans and payors, as well as some of the world’s largest retail and mail-order pharmacies, to optimize vital systems and processes.
From a technology perspective, Kevin is an accomplished information technology executive and enterprise architect who combines software engineering, data management, connectivity and infrastructure, usability, and IT process expertise to deliver business change and results. Kevin's commitment to client service is well recognized and thoroughly documented with impressive client satisfaction surveys and testimonials. In addition to providing trusted business advisor and technology architect services, Kevin has also served as an expert witness for numerous intellectual property litigation and patent infringement cases involving issues of software engineering and trade theft.
Kevin co-founded West Monroe Partners in 2002 to deliver expertise and solutions in a way that is uniquely suited to the needs of growing organizations. Previously, Kevin spent eight years with Arthur Andersen in Chicago as senior manager and director of Pervasive Computing, Wireless, and Infrastructure for the firm’s Business Consulting practice. Prior to joining Andersen, Kevin gained the foundation of his technical depth in infrastructure and software development through various other technology product and services organizations.
Kevin is a member of the Executives’ Club of Chicago, where he is active in the Young Leaders mentoring program; the Association for Corporate Growth, an organization that focuses on merger and acquisition and industry trends for corporate and private equity investing; and America’s Health Insurance Plans (AHIP), a trade association addressing the needs of health insurance plans and payors. He is also a patron of the Chicago Goodman Theatre and the YMCA of Metropolitan Chicago. He has published articles in a variety of industry publications and is sought as a subject matter expert on business and technology topics in healthcare, pharmacy, and mergers and acquisitions.
Kevin received his Bachelor of Science in Business Administration and Management of Information Systems from the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana. |
