Rob Montgomery

Chief Transformation Officer | McKinsey Partner | PE-backed, Mid-Cap & Fortune 500 | Delivering EBITDA and Cash Flow Uplift

San Francisco Bay Area

About

I enjoy stepping into complex, politically sensitive environments, building trust quickly, and then driving a transparent, metrics-based transformation agenda. I’m most energized by roles where I can act as a member of the senior leadership team or operating partner to unlock step‑change value for investors, management teams, their teams and customers. Broad based experience: Agriculture, Automotive, Consumer & Retail, Food Service & Grocery, Logistics, Medical Technology, Mining and Renewables

Experience

  • Partner at McKinsey & Company
    Apr 2023 - Present · 3 yrs 3 mos

    Partner leading enterprise-wide transformation and performance improvement programs for Fortune 500 and PE-backed companies in consumer packaged goods, industrials, manufacturing, medtech, and retail Lead multi‑year transformations (revenue $300M – $10B+) delivering typical impact of 200–500 bps margin expansion and $100 - $800M+ in run-rate EBITDA and cash flow improvement Serve as de facto Chief Transformation Officer or interim operator, standing up transformation offices, driving execution cadence, and coaching C‑suite and field leaders Partner with private equity sponsors from diligence through exit, shaping and delivering value-creation plans in carve-outs, roll-ups, and underperforming portfolio assets

  • Partner at MERU
    2020 - 2023 · 3 yrs

    Trusted executive partner delivering rapid financial and operational improvements across a spectrum of turnarounds and “good-to-great” transformations, in both advisory and interim management roles.

  • Senior Vice President at McKinsey & Company
    2016 - 2020 · 4 yrs

    Interim Chief Transformation Officer with a particular focus on support through ‘hands-on’ execution. Focused on both interim management roles as well as senior-level client coaching.

  • Interim Director of Operations & Launch at Confidential
    2019 - 2019 · Less than a year

    $1B VC-backed hyper-growth startup, responsible for development and execution of the strategy, and codification of rapidly scalable SOPs, supporting deployment of 100 operating cells across North America

  • Interim Chief Transformation Officer at Westmoreland Mining LLC
    2018 - 2019 · 1 yr

    Responsible for development and implementation of $135M+ operational transformation program that served as the cornerstone of the company’s successfully recapitalization