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Marie Rowell

PartnerBay Area

Works closely with high-tech and software companies to achieve above-industry growth and build sustaining capabilities

Marie advises clients in the technology sector, focusing on holistic growth and commercial analytics topics, including go-to-market (GTM) strategy, sales and marketing excellence, revenue analytics, and pricing. She also leads the firm’s pricing practice for North America.

Examples of Marie’s recent client experience include the following:

  • transforming the global go-to-market (GTM) organization for a B2B software company, including direct sales, customer success, channel and digital sales, sales operations, and pricing
  • building the “smart pricing engine” (localized, optimized pricing and discounting) for a global B2B software company
  • developing a next-gen B2B customer acquisition motion (lead gen, sales, pricing) for a North American telecommunications company
  • revamping the commercialization process and launching new product value propositions for a B2B tech solutions company
  • standing up a customer success organization, redesigning the sales force global operating model, and automating demand generation, and lead prioritization for a global payments company
  • supporting a global GTM transformation, creating the blueprint for the global sales operations group, and redesigning channel management roles and responsibilities at a B2B technology infrastructure and services company
  • advising on end-to-end growth transformation (product, GTM, operations); delivering above-market bookings and revenue growth in a structurally declining market segment for a North American technology company
  • helping redesign the demand generation strategy for a B2B software company

Before joining McKinsey in 2015, Marie led growth teams at various software companies.

Past experience

Google
Partner GTM

Wildfire (acquired by Google)
Sales leader

Education

Harvard Business School
MBA

Stanford University
BA, linguistics and anthropology