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Reed Dailey | Revenue Growth Leader | Chief Commercial Officer | Digital Transformation Strategist Reed Dailey is a results-driven growth executive with proven success in scaling revenue, building high-performing commercial teams, and driving enterprise value creation across industries. As a client relationship executive at CohnReznick, Reed partners with boards, CEOs, and private equity sponsors to design and execute revenue acceleration strategies, optimize go-to-market models, and unlock sustainable EBITDA growth. With a career spanning commercial strategy, revenue operations, M&A, and digital transformation, Reed is recognized as a trusted advisor to the C-Suite. He has led clients through market expansion, customer acquisition strategies, pricing and monetization optimization, post-merger integrations, and divestitures—delivering measurable results and competitive advantage. Reed is passionate about building scalable commercial engines, aligning sales, marketing, customer success, and operations to capture market share and accelerate growth. His expertise includes: Revenue strategy & execution: Designing and implementing high-impact go-to-market strategies. Commercial excellence: Building repeatable sales processes, enabling teams, and optimizing customer journeys. Digital enablement: Leveraging technology, analytics, and automation to create efficiency and growth capacity. M&A value creation: Driving revenue synergies, integration strategies, and 100-day planning to maximize ROI. Reed began his consulting career in Capgemini Consulting’s Strategy & Transformation practice after earning his MBA from St. John’s University’s Tobin School of Business. Over the years, he has advised leading companies in manufacturing, distribution, media, entertainment, and retail on unlocking growth, expanding into new markets, and achieving commercial agility. In 2022, Reed launched the Digital Deep Dive Show, a podcast spotlighting how executives harness digital to fuel innovation and revenue growth. The show explores commercial strategies, customer-centric transformations, and market leadership in a rapidly evolving economy. Reed is driven by one mission: helping organizations build commercial systems that win customers, grow revenue, and lead markets.
- Lead Midwest Business Development strategy for Aprio’s Private Equity, Transaction Advisory, and Valuation Services practices, driving growth across key regional markets. - Expand brand visibility and originate new client opportunities throughout Chicagoland and the broader Midwest.
Working with sponsors to create value and maximize their investments across the deal life cycle.
Partnered with private equity sponsors to evaluate acquisition targets and define digital and operational strategies aligned to investment theses—prioritizing accelerated value creation amid market frothiness and compressed hold timelines. - Co-founded and co-led IT Due Diligence practice, supporting 30+ transactions annually at 43%-51% margin; established it as a core post-close expansion engine. -Built a value creation playbook for MICO (Mergers, Integrations, and Carve-Outs), enabling rapid scale and alignment to strategic growth goals. -Developed two proprietary delivery methodologies that streamlined execution, reducing time-to-value from 8 to 6 weeks and improving margin compression by 12% and 9%, respectively.
- Executed a global talent optimization plan, cutting excess capacity by 20% and reskilling 60% of offshore teams to support high-growth functions—driving alignment between workforce capability and GTM strategy. - Expanded digital practice within Premier accounts, driving account growth while transitioning delivery from onshore to offshore—maximizing engagement profitability and improving delivery scalability.
Advised Fortune 500 clients on M&A integration, digital strategy, and new revenue growth initiatives. -Scaled the mobile digital practice, growing contracts 30–40% YoY with a national telecom provider and expanding custom mobility solutions across retail and life sciences verticals. -Drove 20% YoY growth in digital transformation engagements through the use of a proprietary digital maturity framework—developed in partnership with MIT—outpacing competitive offerings in market depth and adoption