Chris Mcmillen Email & Phone Number

New York, New York, United States

Almanac Media builds deep, authoritative websites around highly monetizable content niches in the career education space. Our flagship website, Nursing Schools Almanac, generates 60,000 site visitors per month. Greater than 90% of our website traffic is derived from organic search.As Founder and CEO, I lead a team of six individuals to execute all aspects of the business:• Design, compose, and publish approximately 150 long-form articles annually• Regularly refresh a 300,000-entry database that dynamically feeds the content• Conduct outreach with over 4,000 industry contacts to publicize new content• Use Drupal CMS development to continuously improve publishing efficiency• Onboard and manage a large client base of direct advertisers

New York, New York, United States

Continue to assist the firm on an ad hoc basis, with a focus on talent assessment. Sample engagements:• Lead 25 full-day interview training workshops annually, attended by 30-50 McKinsey consultants apiece• Designed and hosted a weekly informational webinar with up to 200 McKinsey interview candidates• Composed case interviews on diverse topics ranging from airlines to insurance to electric vehicles• Conducted more than 1,200 candidate interviews in the experienced professional recruiting track

New York, New York, United States

Leader in the North American Payments, Retail Banking, and Strategy Practices. Sample engagements:• Improved frontline sales effectiveness across 1,000 branch locations for a leading Canadian retail bank• Redesigned the corporate and retail banking strategies for a North American universal bank to optimize profitability in light of significant balance sheet and funding constraints• Sized the five-year industry growth in prepaid payments flows and revenue across ten priority markets

New York, New York, United States

Led teams of 3-10 consultants on a wide range of payments topics. Sample engagements:• Launched de novo emerging payments division within a global banking conglomerate, including four vertical-specific business plans, consolidated pro forma financials, and pipeline of 35 deal discussions• Led due diligence assessment of a new secure online payments platform for potential strategic acquirer• Crafted growth strategy to double the revenue of a top-five global payments provider’s B2B division

New York, New York, United States

Fulltime member of client service teams providing payments strategy consulting. Sample engagements:• Launched three new credit card value propositions for a leading US regional bank, and articulated the marketing plan, distribution strategy, and economics required to support rapid and successful rollout• Developed five-year growth strategy for a global business and remittance payments provider• Supported organizational and governance merger of two firms in the check and ACH payments space

Melbourne, Florida, United States

Completed business school summer internship in the Rail Solutions group of GE Transportation:• Conducted North American market assessment for GE's Hydra-Switch product, an automated railyard switch, by leading on-site operations tours and interviewing key stakeholders at 20+ railyards• Aligned Hydra-Switch's product enhancements, overall role in the value chain, and promotional messaging with the target market's primary focus on throughput improvement• Project recommendations were budgeted to double Hydra-Switch sales year-over-year

Foster City, California, United States

Promoted to senior manager position after one year. Assumed leadership position on the education team:• Managed two direct reports and a portfolio of 12 for-profit education clients• Assumed overall P&L responsibility for $12 million in annual revenue, about 20% of the company total• Named "Marketing Manager of the Year" in August 2003 by vote of 20-person peer group

Foster City, California, United States

Served as primary client relationship manager in the education vertical:• Designed marketing campaigns (e.g., banner ads, private-labeled content, paid-search inclusion) that generated students for clients at a 25-40% lower customer acquisition cost than existing channels• Designed and managed implementation of a database referral technology that generated $1 million annually in incremental revenue

New York, New York, United States

Fulltime member of client service teams providing tech and media strategy consulting. Sample engagements:• Identified alternate home delivery model for a consortium of magazine publishers, driving industrywide cost savings of $100 million. Modeled the resulting economics for publishers, USPS, and private freight• Led first phase of newspaper operations effectiveness study. Managed three-person team that designed benchmarking survey for completion by production, distribution, and IT line managers• Constructed DCF model for leading iTV services provider to isolate operating drivers of stock price. Identified three near-term improvement levers that would drive double-digit rise in share value

Bachelor Of Arts, Mathematics

Degree awarded Cum Laude in Field Member, Kappa Eta Chapter of Sigma Chi Fraternity

Mba

Degree awarded with Distinction (top 10% of class) Executive Producer, Special K! Revue