James Allen is a partner in Bain & Company's London office and a coleader of Bain's Global Strategy practice. He has served a variety of leadership roles at Bain and is the founder of the Bain Founder's Mentality 100, a global network of high-growth companies mostly led by their founders.

Allen has more than twenty-five years of consulting experience and has worked extensively for global companies in consumer products, oil and gas, technology & telecommunications, healthcare and other industries. He has advised clients on the development of global growth strategies, emerging market entry strategies, and turnaround strategies.

Allen is a coauthor of the best-selling books Profit from the Core and Repeatability, and has written numerous articles on the topics of growth strategy, customer strategy, and the consumer of 2020. He is a frequent speaker at the World Economic Forum and other conferences and has been blogging on Founder's Mentality for the last three years.

A graduate of Kenyon College, Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies and Harvard Business School, Allen lives in London with his wife and their three children.

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