Merle Gilmore, Founder and Principal

Merle Gilmore's career includes more than 20 years of entrepreneurial and intrapreneurial management and consulting achievement built on a foundation of Fortune 1000 operations and planning expertise.

Merle's practice focuses on marketing, planning, corporate development and performance improvement for high-growth and emerging enterprises as well as for companies in transition.

To complement her strategic and tactical skill set, Merle has developed a systematic and ethical program for gathering, analyzing, and managing competitive intelligence, which she uses to inform her clients about their market position and opportunities for advancement and improvement.

Prior to founding MGA, Merle was President of a health services joint venture, which she led from inception through a buy-back and subsequent profitable dissolution. Earlier she served as Senior Business Planner within ARAMARK’s Corporate Development Group, an Internal Operations & Management Process Consultant for PepsiCo/Frito-Lay, and in senior leadership with Consolidated Rail (Conrail) Corporation and Ernst & Young.

Although her work takes up much of her time, Merle serves on the the Board of the Entrepreneurs Forum of Greater Philadelphia, the CleanTech Alliance MidAtlantic, the Advisory Board of the Austen Riggs Center and as a Board Member for the groundbreaking dance company, BalletX.

Merle holds an MBA from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, studying on a Dean’s Scholarship, and a BFA from Carnegie Mellon University. Merle has completed additional advanced study at Harvard University.

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