From Ambition to Results

Helping executives, investors and boards capture value through growth, transformation and integration.

25 Years of Cross Sector Enterprise Consulting
Financial Services Life Sciences Technology & AI Resources Private Equity & M&A Government CPG & Retail Education & Nonprofit
Financial Services Life Sciences Technology & AI Resources Private Equity & M&A Government CPG & Retail Education & Nonprofit
When to engage us

Wherever you are in your journey

Founders, investors and boards at an inflection point?

We help you grow, transform, capture value and exit.

Acquired a company?

We bring disciplined PMI across leadership, culture, operating model and synergy.

Investing in AI but not yet seeing returns?

We assess what's blocking value, i.e., leadership alignment, readiness and governance.

Navigating leadership complexities?

We act as your trusted and experienced advisor focused on your success.

Why Marden Fitch

The value of an honest and independent perspective. 

Helping leaders guide their organizations scale, navigate through complex transformation and capture value.

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Pattern Recognition

Deep and broad experience provides expertise to recognize opportunities to realize greater value more quickly with less risk.

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Diverse Thought

An experienced, multidimensional and trusted outsider increases creativity, innovation, and value realization in ways an internal analysis cannot replicate.

Experience

40+ Acquisition Integrations

The $34B acquisition of Red Hat with IBM and leading IBM acquisition integration from due diligence on to deliver billions in deal value through disciplined transformation, operating model governance, leadership alignment and change management.

Fortune 500 and Government Transformation

Built and led dozens of global strategy and transformation practices and programs delivering billions in operational efficiencies and revenue growth:

  • Strategy and transformation lead for several billion USD in IBM ERP sales

  • eProcurement and Strategic Sourcing EMEA lead for Accenture

  • Designing and implementing AI and digitally enabled workflows

  • Transforming IBM’s Sales force and Partner Ecosystem

  • Reducing IBM spans and layers

  • Divestiture of Kyndryl

  • Leading transformation, value realization, master data management, eProcurement and strategic sourcing for dozens of SAP implementations

  • Ensuring governance and senior stakeholder adoption of Salesforce.com

  • Active Conference Board Executive Council Member for M&A

  • Partnering with Bain, BCG and McKinsey on several strategic programs

  • Transformation of dozens of Fortune 500 organizations and the Danish Ministry of Science Technology and Innovation

  • Establishing and scaling the green field retail division LEGO Global Brand Retail

University of Oxford, Executive Leadership Development

Head Programme Instructor and Tutor for more than 10,000 leaders through 30 cohorts of the Oxford Executive Leadership Programme at Saïd Business School, University of Oxford, strengthening global executive cohorts in systems thinking and strategic execution

Academic & Professional Background

Decades of experience of living and working in Europe and operating in East Asia. Executive MBA, Saïd Business School, University of Oxford. Graduate studies in EU Competition Law, MA in Political Science and International Affairs, Bachelors in Philosophy, ICF Coaching Certification, Hogan Leadership Assessment Certification, and studies at the C.G. Jung Institute Zürich. Fluency in Danish.

Proven Frameworks, Applied Pragmatically

Fluency in several established strategy, operating model and transformation frameworks including Kotter's 8-Step Change Model, Lewin's Change Management Model, McKinsey 7-S Framework and Three Horizons, Gailbraith’s Star Model, Prosci and the ADKAR Model integrating them with value and human-centered disciplines such as Benefits Realization and Enterprise Design Thinking.

How we work with you

Engagement begins with understanding your situation. We match depth of involvement to complexity.

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Retain us

for ongoing strategic counsel on transformation, acquisition integration, and leadership challenges as they arise

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Speaking engagements

Bespoke leadership sessions for executive teams and conferences

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Board and Advisory roles

Independent board member, NED, and advisor for startups, growth-stage companies, and private equity portfolio companies. From governance and growth strategy to value capture and exit readiness

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Proprietary diagnostics

giving your leadership team a scored assessment of transformation, growth and integration readiness with a clear roadmap for value capture

Who we are

"Experience across diverse operating models, cultures, industries, and strategic mandates—combined with a focus on performance, transformation, and value creation led to the founding of Marden Fitch, bringing a value-focused, innovative perspective to complex client challenges."

Founder, Christopher Marden Fitch, held leadership roles at IBM, Accenture, Oxford University, Maersk, Pfizer, 2U and LEGO across the US, Europe, and Asia.

"I have known Chris for 20 years and he consistently brings great clarity and commercial judgment to complex situations. He advises and aligns senior stakeholders, cuts through complexity, and turns strategy into execution that delivers measurable results. His strength lies in leading teams and driving meaningful transformation—focusing organizations on what truly works to achieve sustained performance improvement."

Gregory Meyding,

Boston Consulting Group Partner, Transformation (retired)

"I find Chris is always well prepared and thinks positively and creatively. He blends the wisdom gained from his own experience as an executive and coach with his wide knowledge of leadership ideas really effectively, invariably providing useful advice and robust solutions to problems. It’s a pleasure to work with him."

Tim Morris

Emeritus Professor of Management Studies, University of Oxford

Organization Affiliations

Affiliations in executive development and sell-side strategic advisory.

STS Capital Partners, a global sell-side M&A firm.