EY-Parthenon head Jeff Wray joins FTI Delta as senior managing director

Jeff Wray, the former global leader of EY-Parthenon, has joined FTI Consulting’s strategy arm FTI Delta as a senior managing director and leader of the new consumer & retail industry practice.

Based in Philadelphia and New York, Wray brings more than 20 years of management consulting experience, with a focus on transactions advisory in the consumer products and retail industries. He has expertise in growth investments, corporate venture capital, and large-scale divestitures and merger integration, and has completed engagements across the Americas, Europe, and China.

“[Jeff] is an insightful leader who has a proven record building high-performing teams, executing at scale and delivering meaningful results for his clients,” said Luke Schaeffer, global co-leader of FTI Delta. “I am confident he is the right leader to help us launch our third industry practice within FTI Delta and build our industry expertise more broadly.”

FTI Delta launched approximately one year ago and expands on FTI Consulting’s longstanding retail operational turnaround and transactions expertise. The division provides consulting in strategy, organization and governance, product innovation, cost transformation, and M&A strategy.

The new consumer & retail industry practice joins FTI Delta’s existing telecom, media, and technology (TMT) and public sector practices.

“At FTI Consulting, we firmly believe that industry expertise is key to delivering the highest value for our clients. Jeff believes the same and has built industry practices at scale before coming to FTI Consulting,” said Carlyn Taylor, chief growth officer of FTI Consulting.

Wray joins from EY-Parthenon, EY’s strategy consulting division, where he spent 10 years and most recently served as global leader. Before that, he was Americas strategy leader and Americas consumer leader.

He also previously spent a decade at Boston Consulting Group, where he was a partner and managing director, and five years at Kearney, where he was a principal.

Wray has an MBA from Northwestern University and a bachelor’s degree in finance from Miami University.

“As I became more familiar with the FTI Consulting and FTI Delta platforms and culture, I grew confident that this is a place where I could build something that’s truly unique in the space alongside some of the best minds in the business,” Wray said. “I am energized by the opportunity to scale the industry offerings that FTI Consulting and FTI Delta deliver for our clients, starting with the Consumer and Retail team.”

FTI Delta earlier this year hired Sebastian Blum as a senior managing director in its TMT practice.