Jim Corey
Jim is a co-founder of Blue Ridge Partners and serves as the firm’s Managing Partner. For 35 years he has assisted companies in North America, Europe and Asia accelerate profitable revenue growth. Jim has advised over 300 companies on revenue-related issues including growth strategy, pricing, sales and marketing management and effectiveness, customer segmentation and messaging. Prior to founding Blue Ridge Partners, Jim was a Partner at both McKinsey ＆ Company and Accenture. He was also the President of the worldwide professional services group at Unisys and the Managing Partner of AT＆T Solutions, the professional services arm of AT＆T. Jim previously served as Managing Partner of Potomac Partners and CEO of Luminant.
Blue Ridge Partners
At Blue Ridge Partners, we focus exclusively on helping companies accelerate profitable revenue growth - the #1 driver of value creation. We’ve earned high marks from private equity firms by delivering material, rapid, and cost-effective results for their portfolio companies.
Our work spans value creation planning, commercial model transitions, strategic pricing, sales effectiveness, and commercial due diligence. Our Managing Directors combine top-tier strategy consulting and operating experience, and we’re known for rolling up our sleeves, taking a pragmatic, hands-on approach, and focusing on the “how” of execution to drive measurable P＆L impact. Increasingly, we help clients leverage Commercial AI to accelerate growth. Through our Commercial AI Center of Excellence (CoE), we guide AI investments toward real business problems and commercial metrics - not just tools - to ensure tangible results.
Since 2002, we’ve partnered with over 130 top tier PE firms and 1,300 companies worldwide to create lasting value across the investment lifecycle.