Christopher
T. Jenny
The Parthenon Group
Senior Partner
Chris Jenny is Senior Partner with The Parthenon Group, a Boston-based management consulting and investment firm. With offices in Boston, London and San Francisco, the company works with both emerging growth and Fortune 1000 companies on their most critical strategy issues. Chris is a member of the firm’s Board of Directors and oversees the firm’s overall business development efforts, as well as its private equity practice.
Mr. Jenny is recognized as an expert in corporate and business unit strategy. He has advised many chief executive officers and senior executives on strategic issues within their organizations, including American Express, Arctic Cat, Baxter Travenol, Burlington Industries, Firestone, Formica, Freeman, Spogli, Gerber Scientific, Hughes Tool, Jenny Craig, Madison Square Garden Corporation, PerkinElmer, and The Vanguard Group.
Prior to joining Parthenon in 1995, Mr. Jenny was a Partner with Bain & Company. Mr. Jenny also has ten years of experience running high growth and mid market companies for private investment firms, including Bain Capital and The Noel Group.
Mr. Jenny graduated summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Dartmouth College with a B.A. in Mathematics and holds an M.B.A. with high distinction from Harvard Business School.
The Parthenon Group
Founded in 1991 as a strategic consulting and principal investment firm, The Parthenon Group today has nearly 200 professionals across offices in Boston, San Francisco and London. The firm serves Fortune 1000 emerging/high growth, and leading private equity firms across a range of critical business issues that include corporate and business unit strategy, profit improvement, innovation and growth, mergers and acquisitions and private equity strategy and evaluation.
The hallmarks for which Parthenon has become recognized in the industry are a unique boutique approach to client service, long-term relationships, and performance-based fees. Over the past decade, the firm has become the strategic consulting firm of choice for many Fortune 1000 and emerging/high growth companies.
The firm today remains recognized as the leading consulting firm to consider ways to share client risk through direct investment, consulting-for-equity and performance-based fees. As an extension of its commitment to investment and risk sharing, the firm launched Parthenon Capital in 1995, a private equity firm which today has over a billion dollars under management.