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West Monroe Partners LLC is a business and technology consulting company in the United States and Canada.

Office Locations
West Monroe has eight offices in North America, including Chicago (headquarters) Columbus, Seattle, Montreal, New York City, Toronto, Minneapolis, and Dallas.

2002-2004: Formative Years
In April of 2002 four former Arthur Andersen consultants founded West Monroe Partners at Miller’s Pub in Chicago. That group — which included Dean Fischer (currently CEO) and Kevin McCarty (currently president)—established West Monroe Partners LLC, with the name deriving from the company’s first office space on West Monroe Street in Chicago. Dean Fischer became the company’s first president and CEO.

The firm began serving its first client, Equity Marketing Services, in June 2002, and went on to deliver business and technology consulting services to a variety of mostly Midwestern clients from its Chicago office. In mid-2004, West Monroe Partners hired its 50th employee and launched its first website.

2005-2009: Expansion Years
The years between 2005 and the end of the decade marked a period of expansion for West Monroe Partners. In 2005, the firm opened three new offices in Montreal (January), Seattle (October), and Columbus, Ohio (December). During this year, the firm reached $10 million in revenue and hired its 100th employee, including members of West Monroe’s first university recruiting class. In 2006, the National Association for Business Resources named West Monroe Partners one of its “101 Best and Brightest Companies to Work For” in Chicago. Since then, it has garnered similar accolades locally in Chicago, Seattle, and Columbus, as well as nationally from Consulting Magazine and Vault.com.

Expansion continued with the mid-2006 opening of a Toronto office and merger with LxLi, a consulting firm specializing in labor management and engineered labor standards. In 2007, West Monroe Partners opened an office in New York City (April) and one in Dallas (September).

West Monroe Partners established in 2007 a formal, 13-member Board of Managers. During this period, the firm started practices to serve specific industries; for example, the Energy & Utilities practice, which has worked with utilities across the country to plan and advance smart-grid strategies. During the latter years of the decade, West Monroe Partners also began to focus on multi-faceted business transformations.

2010-Present: New Decade
In March 2010, West Monroe Partners entered an international consulting alliance with BearingPoint, which has strong European roots.

In April 2012, West Monroe Partners celebrated its tenth anniversary in business. Later that year, in September, it named co-founder Kevin McCarty as president. Dean Fischer retains the role of CEO. The firm added an eighth office in Minneapolis in late 2012.

At the end of 2012, West Monroe Partners reorganized as an employee stock ownership plan.

Global alliance
In 2010, West Monroe Partners announced a strategic consulting alliance to expand their global market coverage and to better provide services to their international clients. Both firms offer business consulting services to help solve their clients’ most important and broader business issues. While BearingPoint has European roots, West Monroe Partners is active in the North American management consulting market.

Industry Specialization
West Monroe Partners maintains specialized capabilities in nine industries:


 * Banking & Credit Unions
 * Capital Markets
 * Private Equity
 * Insurance
 * Healthcare
 * Life Sciences
 * Energy & Utilities
 * Manufacturing & Distribution
 * Retail

Competitors
West Monroe Partners’ competitors range from niche consulting firms with specific industry, functional, and technical expertise to the largest global management and technology consulting firms.

Recruiting
West Monroe Partners has a team of more than 300 professionals with diverse skills: strategic and tactical, business and technology, functional and process, industry and market focused. It recruits a mix of experienced personnel (approximately 67 percent of new hires) and entry-level consultants (approximately 33 percent of new hires).

The firm uses a variety of methods to source talent, including employee referrals, social media and networking, staffing partnerships, and campus activities.

Campus hiring is focused on the following schools:


 * Bradley University
 * DePauw University
 * Indiana University
 * Miami University (Ohio)
 * Milwaukee School of Engineering
 * Northwestern University
 * Purdue University
 * Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
 * University of Illinois
 * University of Notre Dame
 * University of Michigan
 * Ohio State University
 * Gonzaga University
 * Seattle University
 * University of Washington
 * Washington State University

Publishing
West Monroe Partners publishes a quarterly newsletter for clients, as well as several industry-specific newsletters for companies in the energy and utilities, banking, and insurance industries. These ongoing newsletters highlight key industry trends and issues facing C-level executives.

West Monroe Partners has also been published in the following:


 * Demystifying “Green” Supply Chains: 5 Steps for Manufacturers: by Yves Leclerc, as featured in IMT Green & Clean Journal
 * How Can M&D Successfully Navigate M&A?: by Tom Ewers and Roland Wilson, as featured in Industry Today
 * 4 Steps to Accomplish a Successful Energy Overhaul: by Tom Hulsebosch and Jeff Smith, as featured in Energy Manager Today
 * You Don’t Have a Big Data Problem. You Have Hundreds of Little Data Problems: by Wally Powers, as featured in Supply Chain Brain
 * Sustainability and The Supply Chain: How To Reduce Cost And Save The Environment: by Yves Leclerc, as featured in Manufacturing Business Technology
 * Order Selector Training is an Investment, Not a Cost: by Chris Begley, as featured in Material Handling & Logistics
 * As featured on NBC 5 Chicago's website. NBC Chicago takes a tour inside our Chicago office which is now LEED-certified to the Gold level.
 * West Monroe Partners Restructures as Employee Stock Ownership Plan
 * One Seattle Company’s Non-Traditional Way of Holiday Giving: by Kyle Hutchins, as featured in Seattle Business Magazine's blog

Awards
West Monroe Partners has earned recognition nationally and locally as for its performance and people practices.


 * Seattle Business Magazine, Best Company Headquartered Outside Washington (2011 and 2012)
 * Crain's Chicago Business, Fast Fifty (2008, 2009, 2011 and 2012)
 * Vault Consulting 50, Best Consulting Firm to Work For (2011, 2012, 2013)
 * Columbus Business First, 2011 Best Places to Work
 * Chicago Tribune, Top Workplace (2010, 2011, 2012)
 * Brill Street + Company, Inc., Top 50 Generation Y Employers in Chicago (2009, 2011 and 2013)
 * Consulting Magazine, Best Firms to Work For (2009, 2010, 2011 and 2012)
 * Crain’s Chicago Business, 20 Best Places to Work 2009
 * National Association of Business Resources, Chicago’s 101 Best and Brightest Companies to Work For (2006, 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2012)
 * Consulting Magazine, Small Jewels (2005)
 * Puget Sound Business Journal, Washington’s Best Workplaces Finalist – Small Category (2012)
 * Building a Healthier Chicago, Excellence in Workplace Wellness (2012)