By Perspective

Pricing impacts all areas of the organization, from C-suite to sales reps.
From setting business growth goals to giving customer discounts, measuring profitability, and implementing quoting applications, the entire organization affects pricing in some way. At INSIGHT, we understand the importance of ensuring internal alignment on pricing initiatives and priorities. Whether you are a private equity sponsor or a data engineer, each role has unique challenges and responsibilities to ensure the success and sustainability of a pricing and commercial excellence program.
Our goal is to consider the perspectives of all functions within your unique business situation and develop tailored solutions that enable EBITDA growth outcomes. You can find our team heads down with C-suite developing messaging for board members and sponsors, on ride-a-longs with sales reps to learn about your customers and processes, and ‘geeking out’ over data to surface the most critical factors for profitable business decisions. In the trenches or the board room, we work side by side with your team to deliver tangible outcomes.
INSIGHT By Perspective
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Private Equity Leadership
Identify and implement sustainable value-creation strategies that deliver measurable ROI
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Company Leadership
Clear profit growth programs to confidently and consistently meet growth plans
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Pricing Leaders
Informed business decisions that influence critical roles and produce sustainable returns
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Sales & Marketing Leadership
Enable sales teams to successfully grow profits through balanced, data-driven commercial programs
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Finance Leaders
Data-backed measurement and financial reporting that tells a story at the most granular level
Meet Our Experts
With over 250 dedicated pricing strategy experts, our team helps businesses achieve profit and EBITDA growth through our process proven on over 800 engagements since our founding in 2006.
Alex Hagreen
Alex is a Principal at INSIGHT2PROFIT with 10 years of experience as a pricing consultant. He excels in defining pricing strategy, developing pricing excellence roadmaps, enhancing salesforce effectiveness, providing negotiation training, and delivering targeted high-yield price increases with our partners.
Examples of Alex’s experience include:
- Launched pricing process for a protein distributor with revenues exceeding $4B, providing profit-maximizing weekly price recommendations to approximately 80 buyers across 12 branches, resulting in a $7M pricing impact over 18 months
- Developed contract negotiation package, timeline, and best practices for a $700M industrial firm, including terms and conditions, scorecard, competitive scorecard, optimal timeline with stakeholder inclusion, and price scenario calculator
- Created $1M lift on $30M of revenue through a target price incentive program at a mid-size eCommerce company; secured management buy in, leveraged dashboard reporting, and aligned incentives to deliver results
- Identified $4M in discounting leakage leveraging a percentile-based peer benchmark model at a manufacturer with revenues exceeding $250M; built a recommendation engine to capture the price leakage and realign price positioning
Alex earned his MBA in Finance with a focus in Pricing from the University of Rochester, Simon Business School and a B.S. in Finance from Penn State University.
Amanda Davis
Amanda is a Director of Business Development at INSIGHT2PROFIT. Amanda has over 7 years of experience with INSIGHT and specializes in identifying profit opportunities and devising solutions to drive sustainable and scalable impact.
She began her career at INSIGHT as a member of our Delivery team where she led dynamic price modeling, hands-on change management and continuous improvement initiatives. Now, Amanda leverages her experience to lead our Business Development group, ensuring new client partnerships have a clear and value accretive scope, with a shared vision of success.
Amanda earned her B.A. in Economics and Management with a minor in Leadership Studies from Marietta College.
Andy Fauver
Andy is the Senior Vice President of Transaction Services at INSIGHT2PROFIT, where he leads the Transaction Services Practice. There, he partners with private equity firms, their portfolio companies, and other transaction advisors to add significant value to the mergers & acquisition process by developing the data foundation and analytics, identifying enterprise value creation opportunities and risks, and developing the growth roadmap and strategy. With over 25 years of consulting and commercial experience, Andy is a trusted advisor to private equity firms, their portfolio companies and investment banks. He spearheaded the launch of INSIGHT’s Quality of Pricing® service offerings to support buy-side, exit planning and sell-side due diligence, and post-acquisition value creation.
Prior to joining INSIGHT, he founded and served as President of Freedonia Custom Research, a division of The Freedonia Group, providing growth consulting and market analytics to Global 1000 companies, private equity firms and investment banks across a wide range of industries. He started his career with Ernst & Young and Capgemini serving clients across industries with operational improvement and business transformation engagements and led Sales Operations for the Capgemini’s Technology Consulting group as part of The Leadership Development Program.
Andy earned his MBA at Case Western Reserve University, Weatherhead School of Management and completed his B.A. degree in History from Hamilton College.
Andy Voelker
Andy is a Principal at INSIGHT2PROFIT bringing over 20 years of strategy consulting experience, specializing in pricing, analytics, strategy and operations. He has led numerous B2C pricing and commercial strategy engagements at INSIGHT and has deep retail experience as an operator.
Prior to joining INSIGHT, Andy spent 10 years at Ace Hardware, where he held multiple leadership positions encompassing all aspects of cost/price management and analytics to support the merchandising organization. Prior to joining Ace Hardware, Andy spent 10 years in Accenture’s retail practice focusing on pricing and promotion strategy and operations.
Examples of Andy’s experience include:
- Built a team of 16 analytical professionals focused on managing wholesale and retail profitability through analytics and cost/retail management
- Led a complete redesign of cost change management process, technology and reporting, leading to greater efficiency, accuracy and visibility
- Effectively navigated an entire organization through tariffs, pandemic-related pricing and supply challenges, and historic rates of inflation, all while growing profitability and maintaining competitiveness
- Led a team of more than 35 professionals focused on improving productivity of retail model through store planning, space and assortment planning, retail pricing, power aisle, store environment and GNFR
Andy earned his B.S. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Charles Lukkes
Charles is a Principal at INSIGHT2PROFIT, leveraging over 25 years of pricing experience in both industry and consulting services. He has driven price realization and building pricing capabilities across a multitude of clients. Charles has experience in developing and leading price realization strategies across multiple organizations with revenues exceeding $1B during his tenure as a consultant and industry practitioner.
Prior to joining INSIGHT, Charles worked for Booz & Co. as a general management consultant developing and implementing pricing strategies and capabilities globally. He also created and led strategic pricing teams for several large consumer packaged goods companies, building capabilities and price strategies from the ground up.
Examples of Charles’ experience include:
- Established pricing teams, processes, analytics and governance for a large food/snack manufacturer in the U.S. and Australia/New Zealand; developed pricing strategies across the portfolio, achieving +3% price realization while mitigating channel conflict
- Provided a price quoting tool for an industrial client in the U.S. and Europe that incorporated key value drivers of new products, enabling the client to capture more value from new offerings driving substantial revenue improvement
- Developed a new pricing strategy for a software provider that resulted in a +30% increase in revenue by capturing true value provided to their client’s versus selling, transitioning from a software license to subscription model
Charles earned his MBA and B.A. in Finance from the University of Chicago, Booth School of Business.
Chris Donnelly
Chris is the Vice President of Sales at INSIGHT2PROFIT, bringing over 25 years of leadership experience focused on organizational growth, sustainable change management, and project leadership. He collaborates with both corporate entities and private equity firms to uncover business potential, leveraging strategic and operational improvements to enhance existing pricing methods. Chris’s expertise in pricing and change management helps clients identify and capitalize on often overlooked opportunities for margin enhancement, demonstrating how even slight price improvements can significantly boost their EBITDA.
Chris is well-versed in various aspects of the business landscape, specializing in Price Management, Pricing Strategy, Price Leaks, Software Development, Change Management, Project Management, B2B, and Private Equity.
Chris earned his B.S. in Finance from John Carroll University.
Chris Gougler
Chris is a Director of Private Equity at INSIGHT2PROFIT, with 9 years of professional experience with the company. He began as a Business Analyst and has progressed through roles including Associate, Consultant, and Manager of Business Development.
Chris specializes in pricing and profit strategy, account leadership, and generating new sales opportunities. His track record demonstrates his exceptional talent for relationship building, leveraging advanced analytics and strong interpersonal skills to drive client success.
Prior to joining INSIGHT, Chris worked for the State of Illinois where he managed State and local political campaigns.
Chris earned his MBA in Marketing and Statistics from George Washington University and his B.A. in Political Science from DePauw University.
Danielle Cisler
Danielle is a Principal at INSIGHT2PROFIT. Danielle has more than 15 years of professional experience including 10 years as a pricing consultant. She has served in various capacities in commercial analytics, e-business, and project management roles.
Specializing in B2B pricing for manufacturers, distributors, and service providers, she leads pricing engagements to ensure long-term sustainable impact. Her leadership extends beyond client engagements to include her previous role as the lead of INSIGHT’s Summer Analyst Program.
Prior to joining INSIGHT, Danielle spent 7 years at Simonton Windows.
Examples of Danielle’s pricing experiences include:
- Drove a 4% improvement in return on sales (ROS) for an industrial configured products manufacturer by shifting from cost-plus to value-based pricing, introducing an integrated quoting solution, holding the sales organization accountable for driving price, and implementing weekly price monitoring
- Led a 2.5% improvement in return on recurring revenue for a professional services provider through a new pricing strategy and infrastructure, differentiated pricing, and emphasis on price adoption and win rate
- Delivered a 30% margin improvement in Year 1 for a manufacturer of electrical equipment by implementing a pricing algorithm and tool to provide differentiated freight rates; continued success includes increasing freight revenue and margin through identification of leakage such as carrier compliance, additional charges, and process changes
Danielle earned her MBA from The Ohio State University, Fisher School of Business, and a M.S. in Quantitative Psychology, from the University of Notre Dame, specializing in finite factor mixture modeling. She also holds a B.S. in Mathematics and a B.A. in Psychology from Marietta College.
Gary Gebenlian
Gary is a Principal at INSIGHT2PROFIT, bringing over 20 years of experience dedicated to unlocking growth within the consumer, hospitality, retail, and technology sectors. He co-founded a technology start-up in the dining space, played a pivotal role in the growth of an early online-to-offline hospitality commerce business, and led marketing and e-commerce for a Private Equity-backed B2B enterprise.
Gary is passionate about growing businesses by integrating science (data, algorithms) with art (change management, effectiveness) across industries. He excels in pricing strategy, growth strategy, and general management.
Examples of Gary’s experience include:
- Led discovery for an environmental services business, identifying and implementing opportunities to drive a 10% incremental profit, actions included addressing peer-price-index outliers, improving fee/surcharge realization, enforcing list-prices in advantaged areas, establishing analytics capability, and implementing governance/cadence for sustained gains
- Led assessment and implementation of customer-specific repricing of lists and discounts and pricing quick-wins for a multinational transportation and logistics services company, targeting $45M of incremental profit
- Led assessment and implementation of target inflationary price adjustments, margin floor implementation, measurement and reporting structure and capability for an industrial equipment manufacturer, generating mid-single-digit impact for core products and double-digit impact for parts.
- Led design and implementation of a segmented margin-target model for a transportation services business with nationwide operation, generating 8% revenue impact to the bottom-line during the pilot phase
Gary earned his MBA from Northwestern University, Kellogg School of Management and a B.S. in Engineering and Computer Engineering from McGill University.
Gerry Thomas
Gerry is a Principal at INSIGHT2PROFIT. Gerry has 9 years of experience in pricing and commercial strategy across various roles, including consultant, manager, senior manager, and director. He specializes in B2B pricing, particularly for industrial equipment, heavy machinery, chemicals, and industrial manufacturers and distributors. He has also collaborated with several B2C clients in industries such as leather goods, white goods, face care, and consumer product goods.
Prior to joining INSIGHT, Gerry spent 8 years as part of the Accenture Strategy team in the Pricing and Commercial Strategy group. During his tenure at Accenture, Gerry worked in sales enablement, zero-based budgeting, and in pricing and commercial strategy.
Examples of Gerry’s experience include:
- Led a project contributing $80M in EBITDA improvement over 16 months by implementing a value-based pricing methodology across the portfolio for a heavy trucking OEM
- Achieved a 2.5% net price improvement during inflationary headwinds for a B2B valve and industrial equipment portfolio company encompassing over 30 distinct brands, implemented a configurable custom quoting tool and PowerBI KPI dashboard utilized across 15+ brands, providing ongoing support for continuous improvement over multiple years
- Delivered over $50M in EBITDA improvement as the pricing project lead for an industrial equipment manufacturer through value-based pricing strategy and implementation
Gerry earned his MBA from the Goizueta Business School at Emory University, M.Ed. in Secondary Education and Teaching from the University of Missouri-Saint Louis, and a BBA in International Business from the University of Georgia.
Justin Seefeldt
Justin is a Managing Principal at INSIGHT2PROFIT and brings 15 years of experience as a management consultant focused on pricing, sales and marketing strategy. Over the past decade, Justin has spearheaded over 70 engagements across various industries concentrating on pricing and profit strategy, resulting in delivering clients more than $1B of value creation.
Prior to joining INSIGHT, he spent several years at a Fortune 500 wholesale distributor, focusing on strategic pricing, private brand management, and commercial analytics.
Examples of Justin’s experience include:
- Collaborated with an industrial holding company to develop a scalable pricing structure and process across more than 40 individual businesses, yielding over $30M of EBITDA impact and 500 basis points margin improvement
- Achieved over $10M of EBITDA impact for an omni-channel building products manufacturer by developing a gross-to-net waterfall that identified key areas of profit leakage and creating corresponding strategies to mitigate them
- Served as a centralized pricing function for a Fortune 500 multinational specialty manufacturer to coordinate pricing strategy and action plans across businesses, executing a $400M pricing action against downward margin pressures
Justin earned his MBA in Corporate Finance and Marketing Strategy & Planning from DePaul Driehaus College of Business, Kellstadt Graduate School of Business and a B.S. in Consumer Economics & Finance from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
Lucian Morar
Luci is a Principal at INSIGHT2PROFIT, bringing over 20 years of specialized B2C and B2B pricing experience, with 17 years dedicated to leading pricing teams. Serving as a trusted advisor to C-suite executives and Private Equity Managing Directors, Luci focuses on pricing excellence within the manufacturing, distribution, and service provider sectors.
Prior to joining INSIGHT, Luci spent 11 years in Accenture’s Pricing and Commercial Strategy practice, managing engagements in pricing strategy, analytics, execution, governance, and software configuration. His B2B pricing experience covers industries such as appliances, automotive, construction equipment, medical devices, chemicals, and professional services. He also spent 3 years in B2C at Jewel Osco managing pricing from general merchandise, health & beauty to grocery, deli, produce &bakery.
Examples of Luci’s experience include:
- Led the development and implementation of a dynamic model optimizing 320,000 weekly prices for an aftermarket auto parts distributor, achieving 400 basis points year-over-year gross margin improvement in the first year, implemented a robust reporting suite to sustain performance
- Generated over $100M in additional revenue for a multinational industrial company by developing a pricing engine that drove regular price increases for contracted and non-contracted customers, and to support a quoting tool integration with clients Salesforce, led the establishment of a Pricing Center of Excellence (CoE) and enhanced client team skills in negotiation best practices during their contract renewals
- Identified 12% in additional revenue for a professional services client through differentiated rate card modelling, price realization measurement, and leveraging cross sell/upsell opportunities; achieved through a swift assessment of existing price variability across personas and peer groups, informed by their purchasing behaviors
Luci earned his MBA in Marketing & Operations Management from Loyola University Chicago, Quinlan School of Business, a B.S. in Economics and a BA in European Studies from Babes-Bolyai University in Romania.
Matt Busch
Matt is the Senior Vice President of Private Equity at INSIGHT2PROFIT. With over 25 years of diverse experience in commercial, private equity, and management consulting industries, Matt enhances the Commercial Leadership Team’s knowledge of private equity clients’ challenges and identifying opportunities to deliver capabilities and unmatched value across all stages of the deal lifecycle.
Matt’s expertise spans the commercial landscape, encompassing pricing, revenue management, marketing, loyalty programs, sales, distribution, demand planning, inventory, and channel and merchandizing strategies across various industries. He collaborates with private equity firms and C-suite executives, including CEOs, Chief Commercial Officers, Chief Marketing Officers, Chief Data & Analytics Officers, Chief Revenue Officers, Chief Risk Officers, Chief Digital Officers, and other leaders to develop targeted strategies aimed at maximizing enterprise value and minimizing risk.
Before joining INSIGHT, Matt led strategy and oversaw the delivery of large-scale value creation projects in diverse industries. He built and managed high-performing client relationship organizations and played a key role in transformative turnarounds and growth initiatives at companies such as Equifax and Revenue Analytics.
Matt earned his B.S. in Management from Southern Cross University.
Mike Brenner
Mike is a Vice President of Private Equity at INSIGHT2PROFIT, where he has over 15 years of pricing experience across multiple industries and within the consulting field. He specializes in B2B pricing strategy & implementation for distribution, manufacturing, and service providers. Mike has led more than 3 dozen engagements at INSIGHT, excelling in identifying profitability improvement opportunities and offering pragmatic solutions to change management to ensure tangible financial benefits are achieved.
Prior to joining INSIGHT, Mike managed a pricing team at GOJO Industries, focusing on establishing market-based pricing for its PURELL line and heavy-duty cleaning products. During this period, Mike lead the launch of the pricing function within Salesforce.com, along with additional data & systems integrations within the pricing domain.
Examples of Mike’s pricing experiences include:
- Drove over $100M in price improvement for a national sanitation services provider through the launch of an optimized pricing engine, differentiated price increases, and enhanced leakage management
- Led a $20M margin improvement initiative for a primary supplier of packaging solutions by identifying and correcting profitability outliers, implementing a process for strategically addressing cost increase events, and launching price management tools to support optimization of freight recovery and surcharge capture
- Delivered over $20M in margin improvement for a leader in lubricant sales & distribution services through the establishment of a value-based pricing strategy, development of integrated pricing tools, and robust change management program
Mike earned his MBA in Finance and a B.A. in International Business from the University of Akron, College of Business. He has also studied at the Rennes International School of Business in France.
Steven Blanck
Steve is a Principal at INSIGHT2PROFIT, with over 18 years of experience as a strategy and operations leader. His expertise covers various areas including commercial due diligence, financial due diligence, growth strategy, M&A integrations, and pricing. Steve has advised executives, private equity managers, and functional leadership teams in establishing the vision, structure, process, and technology for achieving long-term, sustainable transformations.
Examples of Steve’s experience include:
- Developed a pricing platform for a leading professional services automation SaaS platform, driving a 20% improvement in client renewal rates over multiple years and achieving a 5-6% realized price increase in the first year, implemented a customer success model that analyzed target pricing based on factors like cost to serve, upsell and cross-sell potential
- Achieved a 15% EBIT recurring price improvement for a global client in the medical device parts industry, led the development efforts for the existing customer base, overseeing a full process re-engineering of pricing model and processes, implemented the client’s first quoting tool, facilitating quicker turnaround and more profitable deals
- Delivered over $6M in price impact for a leading North American customs brokerage business, created a complex client outlier to identify target pricing and added a salesforce enablement tool to enhance visibility into customer performance and revenue growth opportunities
Steve earned his MBA in Finance, Strategy, and Managerial Economics from Northwestern University, Kellogg School of Management and his B.A. in Political Science and Government from Northwestern University.
Terry Oblander
Terry is the Chief Commercial Officer at INSIGHT2PROFIT. With over 20 years of entrepreneurial leadership experience, he collaborates with senior executives to implement commercial strategies that drive significant profit improvements.
At INSIGHT, Terry spearheads the development and execution of growth strategies while overseeing crucial functions, including transaction services, business development, sales, and marketing. Since joining the company in 2011, he has held several key leadership roles, including Chief Growth Officer and Managing Director of Advisory Services. Terry has been instrumental in leading pricing and profit improvement engagements for numerous companies and played a pivotal role in shaping INSIGHT’s approach to continuous value creation for its clients.
Terry is deeply passionate about enhancing business operations, fostering team and individual development, and contributing to work that makes a meaningful difference.
Prior to joining INSIGHT, Terry held senior leadership positions at AkzoNobel, a Fortune 500 building materials company, where he demonstrated a consistent track record of leading cross-functional teams in driving profitability improvements.
Terry earned his MBA from Cleveland State University and his B.S. in Business Administration from The Ohio State University, Fisher College of Business.
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