Jim Wert leads Triaxia Partners’ Strategy Practice. He currently serves a broad array of organizations in strategic planning, organizational design and restructuring, and leadership development.

Jim joined Triaxia Partners from National Service Industries’ Atlantic Envelope Division where, as Chief Financial Officer, he directed strategic planning and performance management efforts, and contributed extensively to a successful growth/acquisitions initiative that resulted in revenue increases of more than 80 percent in a three-year period.

Before joining NSI, Jim served as the Vice President of Marketing for Mead Coated Board. He led a three-year, cross functional change initiative, realizing $25 million in improved annual operating profit through restructuring customer and product portfolios, and new systems to manage logistics costs.

Prior to Mead, Jim served as a Senior Engagement Manager for McKinsey & Company, where he provided leadership and strategic problem solving expertise to top corporate management, specializing in institutional skill-building and change management. Jim managed projects ranging from growth initiatives to cost control to process reengineering, and he worked extensively with multinational clients throughout North America, Europe, and Japan.

A Phi Beta Kappa graduate from the University of North Carolina, with majors in political science and German, Jim earned his M.B.A. from the Harvard Business School where he was a Baker Scholar.