Attain Partners promotes Ellen Walsh to partner

Attain Partners, a McLean, VA-headquartered management and technology consulting firm, has admitted Ellen Walsh to its partnership.

Walsh will continue to serve as the firm’s chief marketing officer (CMO) and chief of staff. As CMO, Walsh leads Attain Partners’ brand, marketing, and communications efforts and as chief of staff she provides leadership across infrastructure and practices. Walsh oversaw protocols and logistics during the Covid-19 pandemic and led numerous elements during the firm’s divestment of its federal consulting practice. She has also supported multiple acquisitions, grown internal functions, and managed several facility buildouts.

Walsh joined the firm at its founding in 2009. Before that, she spent 10 years at BearingPoint/KPMG Consulting, where she was latterly a senior manager in marketing.

Walsh has a bachelor’s degree from Georgetown University.

"We are pleased to welcome Ellen to the partnership. She has been instrumental to our company since its founding and has played a critical role in the company's growth, impact, and history," said Greg Baroni, founder and CEO.

Attain Partners provides strategy, technology, and compliance consulting services to clients in education, non-profit, healthcare, and state and local government. The firm’s strategy services include planning, organizational transformation, change management, business process modernization, finance, and program management; its technology services include app development, Salesforce consulting, ERP solutions, advanced analytics, and data science; and its compliance services span grants management, financial aid, and cost recovery optimization. Attain Partners has more than 350 employees.

The firm last year sold its federal practice to Maximus for $430 million. The move included a brand change from Attain to Attain Partners.