Hope Consulting
Team
Hope Neighbor, Founder and CEO
Hope is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Hope Consulting. She brings deep experience helping public and private sector organizations to improve their results to Hope Consulting, as well as a passion for social change.
Hope previously served as a strategy consultant with Marakon Associates, a boutique strategy firm serving Fortune 500 clients. At Marakon, Hope worked with senior leadership of publicly traded healthcare, hospitality, and retail companies on growth strategy. Indicatively, Hope advised a Fortune 50 healthcare company on becoming the US market leader in infection prevention, leading the president of that business to call Hope "one of the most effective consultants I have ever worked with."
Prior to Marakon, Hope worked at the World Bank, where she played an integral role in the design and supervision of a $270M portfolio in health, HIV prevention, rural development, and emergency relief. Her country experience spans Benin, Burundi, Cameroon, Madagascar, Morocco, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, and Zambia. Hope was also a field coordinator for the International Rescue Committee in Burundi, where she led the delivery of emergency relief services to over 40,000 internally displaced people. Early in her career, Hope worked for the Chief Economist of the World Bank, and as a Peace Corps health volunteer in Cameroon.
Hope holds a MPA from the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University and a BA in Public Policy Analysis from Pomona College, where she graduated with departmental distinction. She has been named an Emerging Leader by the National Council for Community Economic Development.
"Hope's ability to work with clients and gain their respect is top-notch. Hope's effort was instrumental to the delivery of some of the highest impact work that I was involved in my ~8 years at Marakon."- Ajay Damani, Principal, Booz & Company
Greg Ulrich, Director, Advisory Services
Greg brings over ten years of strategy consulting experience to Hope Consulting. As a Principal with Marakon Associates, Greg managed the firm's 30-person West Coast office and led some of the firm's largest consulting engagements. In one of his most recent projects at Marakon, Greg led a ten-person team to develop a complete turn-around strategy for a billion-dollar division of one of the world's largest and most respected healthcare companies.
Greg's industry experience includes the nonprofit sector, clean energy, healthcare, financial services, and industrial manufacturing. Functionally, Greg's specialties are in growth strategy, competitive strategy, and corporate finance. Greg also has extensive customer research experience, including surveying thousands of customers to understand opportunities to improve a leading healthcare company's products and services.
At Hope Consulting, Greg led the firms' recent "Money for Good" project. Greg helped develop both the qualitative and quantitative research, oversaw the analytics, and authored the main report (which can be found here).
Greg has deep interest in the social sector. He is a Director of the Foundation for Sustainable Development, founded a nonprofit foundation focused on children's education, and initiated a social impact consulting practice while at Marakon. Greg has also worked as a consultant in the clean energy field.
Greg holds an MBA with a concentration in Finance from the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, where he was a Palmer Scholar, and graduated summa cum laude with a BS in Economics from Duke University.