BRG

BRG

Global consulting transforming data into insights

Overview

ThinkBRG provides professional advisory and consulting services worldwide, focusing on turning raw data into actionable insights for clients across many industries. Its approach combines data analysis with expert consulting to help organizations make better decisions. The process relies on a collaborative, globally distributed team that shares knowledge daily to produce high-quality insights tailored to each project’s complexity, expertise needs, and duration. ThinkBRG differentiates itself through deep industry understanding, a proven track record, and a global footprint that enables serving a diverse client base from small businesses to large corporations. The company’s goal is to help clients transform information into practical recommendations and actions that drive decision-making and measurable outcomes, generating revenue through consulting engagements aligned with project scope and duration.

About BRG

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Why BRG is rated
B-
Rated B on Competitive Edge
Rated B on Growth Potential
Rated C on Differentiation

Industries

Data & Analytics

Consulting

Company Size

1,001-5,000

Company Stage

Late Stage VC

Total Funding

$84.5M

Headquarters

Emeryville, California

Founded

2010

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What believers are saying

  • Forbes named BRG a World’s Best Management Consulting Firm for five straight years.
  • September 24, 2026 FIA hires expand BRG’s bank operations and technology transformation offering.
  • Former Visa AI head Jason Gu builds BRG’s AI systems around billion-dollar workflows.

What critics are saying

  • BRG’s hiring spree depends on expensive rainmakers like Park, Harris, and Lenahen.
  • Consulting rivals Accenture and EY chase the same AI and transformation clients.
  • AI consulting tools commoditize BRG’s expert-hour model, pressuring margins by 2027.

What makes BRG unique

  • BRG fuses academics, operators, and data scientists across disputes, finance, healthcare, and energy.
  • September 2026 hires show a repeatable platform for AI, banking, and healthcare transformation.
  • APAC forensics leadership in Singapore gives BRG global disputes coverage competitors lack.

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Funding

Total Funding

$84.5M

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Industry Average

Funded Over

3 Rounds

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Hybrid Work Options

Flexible Work Hours

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6 month growth

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1 year growth

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PR Newswire
Sep 24th, 2026
BRG strengthens Financial Institution Advisory practice with addition of two senior leaders.

BRG strengthens Financial Institution Advisory practice with addition of two senior leaders. Sep 24, 2026, 09:00 ET Roger Park and Chris Harris bring decades of large-scale operations and technology transformation experience, part of a broader buildout of the firm's capabilities in this space. NEW YORK, Sept. 24, 2026 /PRNewswire/ - BRG today announced that Roger Park and Chris Harris have joined the firm's Financial Institution Advisory (FIA) practice as managing directors, bringing decades of leadership experience from global consulting firms and financial institutions. Their additions mark the first step in a broader expansion of BRG's operations and technology transformation capabilities for financial services clients. Harris brings more than 35 years of financial services consulting experience from EY and Accenture, helping clients harness new sources of growth, adopt innovative technologies and streamline operations to deliver higher-quality customer experiences more efficiently and sustainably. His work spans both strategy and hands-on execution. He has a history of continuous innovation in building practices and developing transformative, high-value solutions for clients. Park brings more than 30 years of global professional services leadership and experience building C-suite relationships, launching and scaling new practices and leading enterprise-wide transformation and AI deployment at global scale. Most recently, he led EY's global business enablement AI transformation program after growing the firm's Financial Services technology consulting practice into a multibillion-dollar business. Harris and Park will lead the Operations & Technology Transformation team within FIA. They will help drive BRG's growing focus on transformation for banks and financial institutions, an area the firm is building around AI from the outset both in how we serve clients and operate internally. The approach pairs AI-enabled delivery with reusable practitioner knowledge and value-aligned commercial structures to help our clients implement meaningful change that maximizes their own investments in AI. "Technology is moving faster than the operational processes built around it, and the future of consulting will be defined by firms that effectively utilize AI," said Tri MacDonald, CEO and president at BRG. "BRG is the right place to help clients navigate this shift. Roger and Chris have spent decades running large-scale transformations, and they know firsthand how AI is accelerating disruption across every corner of financial services. As banks and financial institutions rethink their operating models, this is the right team, at the right moment, to help them move from strategy to execution." BRG combines world-leading academic credentials with world-tested business expertise and purpose-built emerging technologies. Our culture centers on agility and connectivity that sets us apart and gets you ahead. Our professionals include specialist consultants, industry experts, renowned academics, and leading-edge data scientists. Together, they bring a diversity of real-world experience, data, and human and artificial intelligence to economics, disputes, and investigations; corporate finance; and performance improvement services that address the most complex challenges facing organizations across the globe. Our unique structure nurtures the interdisciplinary relationships that give us the edge, laying the groundwork for more informed insights and more original, incisive thinking. When paired with our global reach and resources, our diverse perspectives and technical capabilities make us uniquely capable to address our clients' challenges. We get results because we know how to apply our thinking to your world. At BRG, we don't just show you what's possible. We're built to help you make it happen. SOURCE BRG

Metro Atlanta CEO
Sep 24th, 2026
Michael Lenahen joins BRG as Managing Director in healthcare practice.

Michael Lenahen joins BRG as Managing Director in healthcare practice. Thursday, September 24th, 2026 BRG today announced that Michael Lenahen has joined the firm as a managing director in its Healthcare practice. Based in Atlanta, he will help build and lead the practice's Strategic Advisory service area alongside BRG Managing Director Brian Fisher, with a particular emphasis on consumer strategy and patient access. He will also shape artificial intelligence (AI) and trust initiatives focused on the patient and consumer experience. Lenahen brings 20 years of experience spanning healthcare consulting and industry leadership. He has advised many of the nation's largest health systems, including leading academic medical centers and regional systems, on growth strategy, managed care contracting, physician enterprise and value-based care. "Mike brings a valuable combination of extensive consulting experience and hands-on industry leadership," said Rich Bajner, a managing director and healthcare advisory lead at BRG. "His perspective as both an industry executive and consulting leader will be a tremendous asset to our clients and our practice as we work alongside health systems to address their most pressing challenges." Before joining BRG, Lenahen led a Managed Care practice and advised health systems on payer negotiations, strategic pricing and growth. He previously spent five years at Steward Health Care, holding senior leadership roles in operations, strategy and business development, and finance within an integrated delivery system with more than $8 billion in revenue. Earlier in his career, he held healthcare consulting roles at Deloitte and Navigant Consulting. "I'm excited to join BRG and advance a strategy offering that meets health systems where they are today, equipping them to keep pace with the changes reshaping healthcare," said Lenahen. "BRG's multidisciplinary platform allows us to bring together expertise across strategy, operations and technology to help clients improve access and capture new opportunities." Lenahen earned an MBA from the University of Georgia and a bachelor's degree in business administration from Bryant University, where he majored in finance and minored in economics.

PR Newswire
Sep 23rd, 2026
Michael Lenahen joins BRG as managing director in healthcare practice

BRG has appointed Michael Lenahen as managing director in its Healthcare practice, based in Atlanta. He will help build the practice's Strategic Advisory service area, focusing on consumer strategy and patient access, as well as shaping AI initiatives around patient experience. Lenahen brings 20 years of healthcare consulting and industry leadership experience. He has advised major US health systems on growth strategy, managed care contracting and value-based care. Before joining BRG, he led a Managed Care practice and spent five years at Steward Health Care in senior leadership roles across operations, strategy and finance. He holds an MBA from the University of Georgia and a bachelor's degree in business administration from Bryant University.

Penske Media Corporation
Sep 16th, 2026
Former Saks Global CEO Marc Metrick joins BRG.

Former Saks Global CEO Marc Metrick joins BRG. Metrick stepped down from his role at Saks last January and becomes a managing director at the financial advisory practice. September 16, 2026, 1:44pm Marc Metrick, former chief executive officer of Saks Global with an extended history working in retail operations and finance positions at Saks Fifth Avenue, has joined BRG Corporate Finance in New York as a managing director. "Welcoming Marc to BRG reinforces our focus on bringing proven operational experts with deep industry experience into the firm," said Tri MacDonald, BRG principal executive officer and president, in a statement Wednesday. "He is the caliber of talent that drives our firm forward, contributes to Corporate Finance's continued growth, and supports our clients' success." Metrick will be involved in helping retail and consumer brand clients of BRG, a practice that advises companies on turnarounds, restructurings, performance improvement and transactions. He has over 30 years of operational, transformational and financial experience, primarily at Saks Fifth Avenue, where he started as an executive trainee and most recently served as CEO of the parent Saks Global, which included Saks Fifth Avenue, Neiman Marcus, Bergdorf Goodman and Saks Off 5th. However, Metrick stepped down as CEO in early January amid turmoil in the company stemming from being cash strapped and failing to pay bills owed to many vendors, largely due to the company's $2.7 billion acquisition of the Neiman Marcus Group in December 2024. Metrick played a pivotal role in orchestrating the acquistion and subsequent maneuvers to integrate and consolidate the operations of NMG and Saks Fifth Avenue. Earlier, he played a key role in separating the stores and e-commerce operations of Saks Fifth Avenue into separate companies, which raised money for the Saks brand, though seasons later, the two businesses were recombined. Saks Global emerged from bankruptcy in late June 2026 as a new company with a cleaner balance sheet and new owners called the Exemplar Luxury Group. Before becoming CEO of Saks Global, Metrick was CEO of Saks Fifth Avenue, president of Saks Fifth Avenue. He spent 15 years in senior leadership roles at Saks and at Hudson's Bay Company which purchased Saks in 2013 for $2.9 billion. Metrick served as HBC's chief administrative officer, played an instrumental role in HBC's acquisition of Saks. He joined HBC in 2012 as chief marketing officer, where he oversaw all marketing and digital commerce for Hudson's Bay and Lord & Taylor, which HBC also owned. Prior to this, Metrick served as the chief strategy officer at Saks Fifth Avenue. Bob Duffy, a managing director and head of BRG's corporate finance practice, said, "Marc is an incredible addition to the corporate finance team. He brings a broad array of operating experience at the highest levels of industry. Given his prior experience, he understands the opportunities and challenges our clients face. We are excited about the perspective he brings to BRG." Metrick could not be reached for immediate comment. Newsletters

PR Newswire
Sep 9th, 2026
BRG hires Jamie LaGuardia-Frie as managing director for Healthcare practice

BRG has appointed Jamie LaGuardia-Frie as managing director in its Healthcare practice, based in New York. She will lead business development and client strategy for the Healthcare Advisory team. LaGuardia-Frie brings over 20 years of healthcare experience in consulting, growth strategy, and client relationship management. She previously served as managing director and chief commercial officer for Alvarez & Marsal's Health Industry Group and spent nearly a decade at Guidehouse in leadership roles. At BRG, she will work to strengthen client relationships and expand the firm's Healthcare Advisory capabilities. LaGuardia-Frie holds an MA in communications from Eastern Illinois University and completed leadership training at Harvard Extension School.

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