Creating exceptional products, together.
Carbon Five is now a part of West Monroe.
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Founded in 2000, Carbon Five
is a digital product development consultancy. They partner with their clients to create exceptional products and grow effective teams.
We are excited to welcome Carbon Five, a likeminded organization with strong talent and integrated product capabilities. When paired up with Verys’s scale and West Monroe’s core expertise in strategy, industry, and tech, we are able to drive long-lasting value and partnership to our clients.
What leadership says
Carbon Five will help accelerate West Monroe’s vision of becoming a world-class product organization, with industry-led digital strategy, product management, product design, and product engineering across the entire product lifecycle.
Carbon Five’s experience in these areas will help us achieve this vision.
Demand for custom digital products is increasing as companies look to differentiate their customer and employee experience
Customer needs evolve alongside expectations—they increasingly are seeking world-class products and experiences that are consistent and fluid between the digital and physical worlds
Shortage of in-house talent has even the most advanced companies lacking critical capabilities to bring digital products to market faster
West Monroe is committed to building our product development capabilities, including a $250million investment to build end-to-end digital services, and when combined with our recent acquisition, Verys, and the scale they bring, we believe this will boost our ability to deliver across the breadth of the product lifecycle, and provide depth in engagements with clients’ product environments.
founded
2002
founded
2012
2019
SEPTEMBER, 2021
West Monroe acquires
december, 2021
And we're not done yet
Carbon Five brings to West Monroe a proven methodology and product delivery processes that have helped startup companies and Fortune 1000 firms gain market share in their industries. The firm is an expert in building superior digital products and preparing its clients for long-term success by elevating their product management and development capabilities.
founded
2000
Why we are better together
This is the latest in a series of moves to establish a world-class product organization. West Monroe is on a mission to help our clients build lovable products that make an impact for their customers.
200+ person firm adds depth and scale in product engineering capabilities and near-shore talent in Costa Rica
50+ person digital product studio sets the stage for firm’s digital product focus
85 person product development consultancy brings a proven methodology and product delivery processes
The journey continues…
October, 2021
Brings committed support to global digital product development platform expansion
West Monroe acquires
takes on
MSD Partners
as investor
West Monroe acquires
Tom Bolger
Chief Strategy Officer
West Monroe
West Monroe is a powerhouse in digital consulting and we are thrilled to be joining forces. With Carbon Five’s technical product development expertise alongside West Monroe’s full suite of end-to-end digital services, we look forward to delivering longer lifetime value to our clients and growing as a trusted digital partner for product teams across all industries.
Mike Wynholds
CEO
Carbon Five
The foundation of our digital product development consultancy has always been our talented, kind-hearted, inquisitive team. West Monroe’s commitment as a people-first consultancy strongly aligns with the legacy of Carbon Five’s core values. With this partnership, we’re excited to be able to provide richer career development opportunities, cross-disciplinary skill building, and ample professional growth to all our team members.
Don Thompson
COO
Carbon Five
How we are better together
From distributed systems built on blockchain to state of the art mobile applications for banks, clients rely on them to solve complex technical problems with modern solutions
A sophisticated product management process that connects product definition & management with engineering
Client work has synergies with the industries West Monroe focuses on and has depth in
Our teams have shared values, a similar culture, and are excited to come together.
The skills that enable them to drive their client’s vision to reality.
Product Strategy
Competitive
Research
Experience Mapping
Product
Validation
Roadmapping
Systems & Architecture Design
Web App
Development
Interaction Design
Experiment Driven Development
Visual Design
Product Design
Mobile App Development
Iterative Development
Agile Transformation
Coaching and Mentoring
This acquisition rounds out the foundation we are building for our global product development platform. Carbon Five’s impressive product development background will enable us to effectively deliver on our commitment to moving our clients closer to running digital organizations.
Greg Layok
Managing Partner
West Monroe
Depth of Engineering Expertise
Product Process Maturity
Industry-Aligned Projects