<\/strong> <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_team_member name=”Richard Baum” position=”Managing Partner” _builder_version=”4.23.1″ _module_preset=”default” hover_enabled=”0″ sticky_enabled=”0″ title_text=”RB-Photo-Square” body_font_size=”16px” body_line_height=”1.8em” position_font=”|700|||||||”]<\/p>\n Richard is the Managing Partner of Consumer Growth Partners (CGP), an Independent Sponsor with an exclusive focus on middle-market specialty retail and non-perishable branded consumer products companies.\u00a0 Prior to co-founding CGP in 2005, Richard spent 16 years as a top ranked sell-side equity research analyst at Sanford Bernstein, Goldman Sachs and Credit Suisse, covering the specialty retail and discretionary consumer products sectors.\u00a0 Previously, he spent 6 years in the merchandising organization at Bloomingdale\u2019s and began his career as a strategy consultant with The Boston Consulting Group.<\/p>\n Richard currently serves as Chairman of the Retail Marketing Society, a not-for-profit organization that focuses on bringing leading edge topics of interest to the broad retail community via a series of monthly webinars and in-person events.\u00a0 He also serves as a Board\u00a0 Director for Chair King\/Fortunoff\u00a0 Backyard Stores,\u00a0 Factory Connection, Inc., and Rolla Coster, Inc.\u00a0 He served as a board director of Vera Bradley, Inc. (NASDAQ:\u00a0 VRA) for nine years before stepping down in 2020.\u00a0 In 2023 he was selected by iGlobal Forum as their inaugural recipient of the Independent Sponsor Lifetime Achievement Award.<\/p>\n Richard earned a BA degree in Economics from the University of Michigan where he graduated magna cum laude with Phi Beta Kappa honors and a JD degree from Harvard Law School.\u00a0 He lives in a suburb of New York City with his wife Robin, a medical school admissions dean.\u00a0 He is also the proud father of two young men, Zachary an attorney in Washington, DC and Ross a musical theatre composer and songwriter in New York City.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_team_member][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" LEADERSHIP Richard is the Managing Partner of Consumer Growth Partners (CGP), an Independent Sponsor with an exclusive focus on middle-market specialty retail and non-perishable branded consumer products companies.\u00a0 Prior to co-founding CGP in 2005, Richard spent 16 years as a top ranked sell-side equity research analyst at Sanford Bernstein, Goldman Sachs and Credit Suisse, covering […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n Richard is the Managing Partner of Consumer Growth Partners (CGP), a private equity investment firm with an exclusive focus on investing in middle-market specialty retail and non-perishable branded consumer products companies. He also is a Partner in the advisory firm Founder Solutions (www.founder-solutions.com) that provides strategic and operational advisory services to a similar group of companies that have a transaction in their future but for a variety of reasons may not be ready to take in equity capital at the present time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Mr. Baum currently serves as President of the Retail Marketing Society, a not-for-profit organization that focuses on bringing leading edge topics of interest to the broad retail community via monthly webinars. He also serves as a Board Director for Chair King\/Fortunoff Backyard Stores, Factory Connection, Inc., Rolla Coster Inc., and Southern Grace Clothing Company. He served as a board director of Vera Bradley, Inc. (NASDAQ: VRA) for nine years before stepping down in 2020. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Prior to co-founding CGP in 2005, Mr. Baum spent more than fifteen years as a sell-side equity research analyst at Sanford Bernstein, Goldman Sachs and Credit Suisse where he was consistently ranked among the industry leaders in the annual Institutional Investor<\/em> and Greenwich Associates<\/em> polls. Previously, Mr. Baum spent six years in the merchandising organization at Bloomingdale\u2019s and began his career as a strategy consultant with The Boston Consulting Group.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Mr. Baum earned a BA degree in Economics from the University of Michigan where he graduated magna cum laude<\/em> with Phi Beta Kappa honors and a JD degree from Harvard Law School. Mr. Baum lives in a suburb of New York City with his wife Robin. 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