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Experts In Accelerating Growth

NRP was founded on the idea of accelerating value creation in companies. From start-ups to Fortune 1000 enterprises, we have worked with companies of all sizes to achieve transformational change. We have spent decades running digital businesses, developing digital products and leading dozens of Digital Transformation programs.

NRP has developed an expedited playbook for applying those learnings to your organization. We uncover, prioritize and execute growth opportunities that deliver the highest margin contributions. Our consulting and technical projects balance accelerated revenue growth, efficiency and competitive impact with project complexity and current capabilities.

NRP complements the operational strengths of management teams, their workforce and their technology stack. We help leaders re-imagine their business by leveraging cloud-based and emerging tech to generate new value.

OUR AREAS OF EXPERTISE

Customer and Product

Digital Strategy and Technology Roadmap
  • Streamlining Digital Operations & Digital Impact
  • New Market & Customer Segment Penetration
  • Digital Platforms & Modules Selection
  • Digitization & Cloud Migration
Digital Customers and Marketing
  • Customer Segmentation, Targeting & Personalization
  • Customer Experience & Onboarding Transformation
  • eCommerce Growth
  • Digital Channel & UI/UX Optimization
  • Digital Marketing Platforms & Campaigns
Digital Products and Services
  • Digital Product & Service Strategy
  • Digital Product & Service Development
  • Digital Service Expansion & Revenue Growth

Operations and Technology

SW Development, Integration and Security
  • Digital Core Implementation & Module Integration
  • Platform Customization & Enhancement
  • Agile, DevOps & CI/CD Development
  • Cybersecurity, Risk & Fraud Management Automation
  • Ongoing Security Mitigation & Stress Testing
Emerging Technologies and Implementation
  • Customer Support Streamlining & Automation
  • Advanced Data Analytics & Insights
  • AI/ML & RPA Deployment

OUR APPROACH

NRP fills a critical gap in the consulting market by focusing on flexible, cost-effective digital strategy and implementation projects customized to the mid-sized corporate market. Our rapid-launch, short-duration digital acceleration projects allows us to target high-value opportunities iteratively with management teams and in collaboration with third party vendors and other consulting partners.

NRP understands what it means to operate at the speed of digital because innovation happens at a blistering pace. Our methodology was developed through years of launching, scaling and evolving technology-enabled projects for our clients. As a result, we’ve worked through most of the challenges and complexities in a Digital Transformation. 

Leveraging our Digital Transformation playbook, NRP first identifies and analyzes a list of digital opportunities that exponentially increase a company’s valuation. These then undergo a rigorous prioritization process to ensure the project plan is tailored to our client’s strategic objectives and needs.

From this plan, NRP develops a detailed roadmap of projects which becomes our workplan for execution. We also work with our clients to identify optimal funding mechanisms for the work. These could consist of resources redirected from underperforming initiatives, planned investment or budget amendments.

Finally, NRP helps our clients re-imagine how value can be realized sooner by adopting agile principles in the management of their operations. NRP uses agile methods in all our engagements, focusing teams on rapid execution and market responsiveness via test-and-learn processes.

As part of these efforts, NRP assists companies in finding and engaging the best digital talent required for targeted opportunities. We then build teams complemented by a mix of NRP experts, company leads and external resources.

Project Structure

  • Engagements led by NRP Partner(s) and Client Project Lead

  • Project Teams supplemented by NRP, Client and/or External resources as required

  • In Discovery, NRP and client collaborate on opportunity assessment and prioritization

  • In Planning, NRP presents and iterates roadmap with Client

  • In Execution, NRP structure and oversee Project Teams and governance

Working Methods

  • Distributed Teams, leveraging Zoom/MS Teams and collaboration tools such as Mural and Scrum Boards

  • Workshops to drive alignment, cohesion and prioritization

  • Successful approaches codified across company and teams

  • Growth accelerated via short timelines and performance incentives

Agile Mindset

  • NRP can deliver agile and iterative development training to accelerate pace

  • Agile Teams are aligned to outcomes and value generation rather than deliverables and outputs

  • Agile Team focus is on executing, getting things “done” and getting things “done faster”

  • Agile Teams are given freedom to experiment and self-direct within strategic and budget constraints

Client Team Role

  • Client assigns Project Sponsor, Project Lead and team members as required

  • Senior Leadership provides commitment to program and to eliminating roadblocks

  • NRP puts into place rapid approval process

  • Senior Leadership allocates time for reviews and operational approvals

HR Planning

  • Client assigns HR Support Lead, who helps identify resources gaps against deliverables

  • NRP collaborates with HR Support Lead to fill gaps in short and long term

  • NRP helps Client develop long-term re-skilling, hiring and recruitment plans

Technology Readiness

  • Client assigns Tech Lead, who assesses tech feasibility of identified opportunities

  • NRP works with Tech Lead to assesses implementation requirements

  • Tech Lead aligns project roadmap to longer-term technology project and investment plans

New Revolution Partners Leadership

Edward Scott

Managing Director

Mark Woollen

Partner

Ram Krishnamurthy

Partner

Rosa Arzate

Financial Services Advisor and Technology Specialist

John Jenkins

Partner

Jim Stevenson

Partner

Walter Loiselle

Partner
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Edward Scott

Managing Director

Sector Focus: Retail, Financial Services, Consumer Tech, Media

For almost three decades, Ed’s passion has been to assist companies in implementing the changes required for breakout performance.

As both a Consultant and Managing Director with Fortune 1000 companies, Ed has managed complex business transformation programs across industry sectors, including Retail, Financial Services, Consumer Technology and Media. His focus is on execution, leveraging digital capabilities to drive product, service and customer differentiation as well as to improve the marketing function and cost efficiencies.
Specifically, Ed works with management teams to structure value creation strategies, facilitate organizational readiness, assemble agile execution teams, build new digital capabilities, prioritize opportunities, transform processes and align acceleration roadmaps to a company’s technology and human resource capabilities.
In addition to NRP responsibilities, Ed is also an Operating Partner with a private investment firm. Before that, Ed ran Digital Transformation for MUFG’s subsidiary Union Bank and led Digital practices at a diversity of technology companies.
Ed received his BA in Applied Mathematics-Economics from Brown University and an MSE in Business Administration and Technology Management from the University of Pennsylvania.

Mark Woollen

Partner
Sector Focus: Credit Unions, Retail Banks, Digital Banks, Digital Platforms, Technology

Mark brings more than 20 years of technology, architecture and management consulting experience focused exclusively on banks and credit unions.

Mark’s work centers on the systems that power financial institutions, including banking platforms, online and mobile banking, deposits and payments. He specializes in custom enterprise software integration, solutions architecture, technical design and delivery and product roadmap development.

Mark works with executive teams to analyze business strategy, lead complex programs, engineer processes and guide technology and development operations from requirements through delivery. His experience includes coordinating performance testing for 35 critical applications and systems during the U.S. Trust transition, from requirements gathering through cross-functional execution and final signoff.

Mark holds a BS in Computer Science from the Georgia Institute of Technology and is a Certified ScrumMaster.

Ram Krishnamurthy

Partner

Sector Focus: Credit Unions, Retail Banks, Commercial Banks, Fintechs, Security

Ram brings more than 20 years of experience in digital and core banking platforms, fraud and risk management and authentication.

Ram’s work includes developing technology strategies, conducting fraud data forensics and guiding core banking and digital transformations for banks, credit unions and fintechs. His work includes digital banking vendor replacements at multiple credit unions, leading core banking transformation at a large regional bank and fraud prevention architecture and forensics for a top five U.S. bank.

Ram pairs deep expertise in leading fraud and authentication platforms, including Actimize, BioCatch, Featurespace and ThreatMetrix, with a background in analytics, CRM and digital marketing. That gives him an uncommon view across both risk and growth.

Ram holds an MS in Engineering from the University of Akron and a BS in Engineering from the University of Mumbai.

Rosa Arzate

Financial Services Advisor and Technology Specialist
Sector Focus: Financial Services, Fintech, Credit Unions

With a deep focus on project management and service delivery across the financial sector, Rosa is a seasoned technical specialist dedicated to driving innovation in financial institutions. Her expertise spans guiding organizations through strategic flagship projects and empowering them to leverage technology for operational excellence and growth.

Rosa has managed complex program portfolios with a strong commitment to stakeholder management, timeline adherence and process improvement. Combining technical insights with business acumen, Rosa supports clients in building resilient, future-ready organizations.

Rosa holds a bachelor’s degree in Administrative Computer Systems Engineering and has certifications as an Agile Scrum Master, Product Owner, ISO 20000 auditor and Six Sigma Yellow Belt.

John Jenkins

Partner

John is a Financial Services and IT executive with over 30 years of experience leading innovation and technology transformation, specializing in digital banking and Fintech programs. He has a track record of leading enterprise-wide initiatives that streamline operations, increase capabilities, minimize risk, ensure compliance and deliver growth.

John has a keen ability to develop and implement effective enterprise IT solutions that enable accelerated change in highly competitive and regulated sectors. He is a hands-on, results-oriented professional with a broad background across organizations, roles and international markets, including executive roles with HSBC, MUFG/Union Bank, Wells Fargo and Western Alliance Bank. He has led IT functions ranging from Software Development to IT Operations and Infrastructure, specializing in DevOps, Data Management, Cloud, IT Security and Blockchain.

John has a Master of Science in Information Technology and holds technology professional certifications. He has lived across the US and Latin America, currently residing in Phoenix, AZ with his wife and daughter.

James Stevenson

Partner

Sector Focus: Retail, Healthcare, Consumer Tech, Media

A native of Scotland, Jim is a proven and battle-hardened business leader with a passion for building businesses. Jim makes growth the objective of a company’s strategy and the result of its transformation. He has functioned as Chairman, CEO, Chief Product Officer, Board Advisor, Consultant and leadership coach.

Jim has implemented transformations and delivered millions of dollars in revenue growth for clients across sectors, including retail, healthcare, insurance, banking, media, publishing, online marketplaces and CPG.

Working with start-ups, scale-ups and global businesses, Jim creates strategies focused on the customer, from evolving value propositions and creating go-to-market plans to aligning capabilities that drive revenue and business growth. In the process, he transforms an organization’s people, processes and products from within to add value early, then accelerate this growth.

Jim’s experience includes turning around Private Equity-backed Future Thinking Gemseek Group, a European market insight and data analytics company as well as leading transformations at retailer Marks and Spencer, healthcare provider BUPA, News Corp and German digital marketplace Scout24. Jim also launched The Guardian in America, led digital marketing across Bacardi’s global brands and created the Bank of Scotland’s first integrated website.

Walter Loiselle

Partner

Sector Focus: FinTech, SaaS, Payments, Cyber Security, ESG/Non-Profit

Walter brings more than 25 years of experience engaging with global customers, spanning from start-ups and mid-sized companies to large enterprises.

As a COO/CIO within Fortune 500 companies, Walter is an accomplished “hands-on” executive with extensive experience across countries in the strategy, delivery, cybersecurity, services, support and success of both full-scale B2B and B2C solutions. His work bridges legacy on-premise and cloud SaaS business structures. He has taken an array of organizations across industries on the transformative journey to the cloud, including Product, Sales and Delivery functions as well as Retentions and Renewals.

Walter holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science from Rhode Island College and has achieved a variety of specialized technology and management certificates from Boston University and Bryant University.

Walter served as an adjunct professor at Roger Williams University, instructing undergraduate and graduate courses in beginner and advanced programming. His personal passion is being the “consummate teacher” by showing, explaining, and ultimately moving a team along on a combined journey. He also enjoys volunteering and serving on non-profit boards.