Gene G. Wright

Gene G. Wright is a partner in Dmyterko & Wright Partners, a retail real estate development and i9nvestment firm. Wright, who has over 30 years of retail industry experience, was president and CEO of Northstar Advisory Group, a real estate consulting firm and Senior Managing Director for Retail Services at CB Richard Ellis He was also a former associate partner at Accenture, where his responsibilities included The Retail Place, Accenture’s global research and development center for retail strategies located in Chicago, IL in addition to client engagement work.

Prior to joining Accenture, Wright was COO at The Warehouse Club. Wright also served as Vice President, Food Purchasing and Director of Operations at Cincinnati, OH-based Makro, Inc. (an acquired subsidiary of Kmart) and was part of a Netherlands based management team that helped to establish the warehouse club concept in the United States in the early 1980’s Wright has been involved in a significant number of real estate related projects for major retailers and developers over the past several years including Radio Shack, AT & T Wireless, The Limited, Home Depot, Bridgestone Firestone, Fazolis’s, Crosland and Commercial Net Lease Realty among others, specializing in multi-market store expansion and development activities to help achieve aggressive store opening goals. He has been a featured speaker at retail conferences in North and South America, Europe and Japan, and while at Accenture, participated in the development of retail globalization strategies and retailing best practices. He has been featured in magazines, and television including CNN, Nightly Business Report, Brazilian and Japanese television, The Wall Street Journal, Chicago Tribune and Women’s Wear Daily. Mr. Wright holds a BBA Business Administration from West Georgia College.