Gene advises Lotus clients on acquisition strategy and transaction decisions. A former Global Partner at Accenture, he brings four decades of experience with business owners and Fortune 500 executive teams.
500+AT&T stores under Northstar’s program leadership
200+Startups reviewed at Emory RAISE
40 yrsRetail, consulting & transactions
At Lotus
Gene provides senior counsel on acquisition decisions across Lotus engagements. He helps clients evaluate a business’s value and consider how the transaction structure will affect their plans for ownership and exit.
Background
About Gene
Gene Wright is Lotus’s senior adviser on acquisitions. He helps clients assess the businesses they are considering and make decisions about transaction structure and an eventual exit.
A former Global Partner at Accenture, Gene has spent four decades in retail, consulting and transactions. At The Retail Place, Accenture’s Chicago-based “Store of the Future,” he led senior engagements and hosted executive teams from The Home Depot, Target, Best Buy, Walmart, AT&T, The Coca-Cola Company and Microsoft.
Gene founded Northstar Consulting to help Fortune 500 companies develop new retail concepts and expand. He later founded Northstar Advisory Group, advising corporate and high-net-worth buyers in the lower middle market. His more than 25 years of advisory work in the southeastern United States have included buy-side and sell-side transactions, valuations and equity raises. Under Northstar’s program leadership, more than 500 AT&T wireless stores opened nationwide.
As a founding board member of Emory University’s RAISE Forum, Gene reviewed more than 200 startups over eight years. He is a licensed business broker, a board member of the Georgia Association of Business Brokers and an active investor. He holds a B.B.A. from the University of West Georgia.
Expertise
M&A Strategy
Business Valuation
Retail & Consumer Strategy
Buy-Side & Sell-Side Advisory
Strategic Planning
Middle-Market Advisory
Experience in practice
Selected experience & results
The Retail Place
At Accenture’s Chicago “Store of the Future,” Gene led engagements and hosted executive teams from The Home Depot, Target, Best Buy, Walmart, The Coca-Cola Company, Microsoft and AT&T.
Northstar Advisory Group
Gene founded the firm to advise corporate and high-net-worth buyers on lower-middle-market transactions. Northstar led the national rollout program that opened more than 500 AT&T wireless stores.
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