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Chris Shores

Director
Chris Shores
HOME BASE
Atlanta
BEFORE ACCORDION

  • West Monroe Partners

  • Alvarez & Marsal

  • Altium Packaging

  • Kraton Corp.

ALMA MATER

  • College of William & Mary, M.B.A.

  • Cornell University, M.Eng. Chemical Engineering

  • Virginia Tech, B.S. Chemical Engineering

HOME BASE
Atlanta
BEFORE ACCORDION

  • West Monroe Partners

  • Alvarez & Marsal

  • Altium Packaging

  • Kraton Corp.

ALMA MATER

  • College of William & Mary, M.B.A.

  • Cornell University, M.Eng. Chemical Engineering

  • Virginia Tech, B.S. Chemical Engineering

Chris is a Director with three decades of operating and consulting experience spanning global enterprises, closely held LLCs, and private equity-sponsored companies across the industrial, consumer, and business services sectors. Chris specializes in enterprise performance improvement, change management and transformation.

Before joining Accordion, Chris worked in the Operations Excellence group at West Monroe, and the Private Equity Services group at Alvarez & Marsal. Previously, he was Vice President of Operations for Altium Packaging. While in industry, Chris held both line and functional leadership roles in operational excellence, supply chain, engineering, and compliance across North America, Europe, and Asia.

Chris recently led an engagement for a Fortune 50 FDA regulated client involving the turnaround of a newly acquired consumer product business unit which had not integrated well over the previous 18 months, resulting in a 1,030 basis point EBITDA run rate improvement over 39 weeks.

Chris graduated from Virginia Tech and Cornell University with B.S. and M.Eng. degrees in Chemical Engineering. He also holds an M.B.A. from the College of William & Mary.

Something you should know
  • Enjoys traveling and exploring the outdoors in his free time. Half Dome at Yosemite is a favorite destination – he has been to the top twice.
  • Spent 4 months in South Korea on a plant startup and learned the Korean alphabet while living there.
    Noteworthy
    • As account manager, Chris led an engagement for a Fortune 50 FDA regulated client involving the turnaround of a newly acquired consumer products business unit which had not integrated well over the previous 18 months. An end-to-end assessment was used to identify and rank losses across supply chain, operations and back-office processes. A transformation office was established with chartered initiatives involving the client’s team, leading to a client reported $10.3M/yr EBITDA run rate improvement on a $100M/yr P&L after 39 weeks. Key value levers were improved inventory controls, master data integrity, shop floor efficiency, and streamlining of back-office processes which were constraining revenue.
    • Earlier in his career, led operations and championed functional excellence across commercial and finance organizations for a global distribution company which grew revenue from $300M/yr to $875M/yr over an 8 year period. The company was acquired in a PE backed transaction with EBITDA margins performing 200 bps above its industry peer group.
    • Recipient of the Honeywell Presidents Award for Growth & Productivity and is trained as a Lean Six Sigma Black Belt.
    • Early in his career, while serving as area supervisor for a manufacturing company in Louisiana, Chris was presented the first ever Supervisor Appreciation Day award by members of the local ICW union.