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title: The Marketplace Strategy Blog | Rhiannon Thomas, Partner, Kearney
description: "Rhiannon is a Partner and co-Ieads Kearney’s UK & Ireland Consumer and Retail Practice. She has advised consumer facing clients for 15 years focused on top-line growth and in particular how to transform the capabilities of the organization to respond to evolving consumer needs harnessing the power of digital. She is extremely passionate about the impact of platform business setups on consumer industries and is currently supporting clients to discover and deliver these setups which truly disrupt how consumer value is created. She leads Kearney's GrowthIQ and platform capability suites.
Rhiannon has a Masters in Economics from Cambridge University and a BSc in Economics & International Studies from Warwick University."
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# Rhiannon Thomas, Partner, Kearney
Rhiannon is a Partner and co-Ieads Kearney’s UK & Ireland Consumer and Retail Practice. She has advised consumer facing clients for 15 years focused on top-line growth and in particular how to transform the capabilities of the organization to respond to evolving consumer needs harnessing the power of digital. She is extremely passionate about the impact of platform business setups on consumer industries and is currently supporting clients to discover and deliver these setups which truly disrupt how consumer value is created. She leads Kearney's GrowthIQ and platform capability suites.
Rhiannon has a Masters in Economics from Cambridge University and a BSc in Economics & International Studies from Warwick University.
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