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Our Leadership

Cascade was started by three people who spent years inside one of the biggest consulting firms in pharma and then decided to do it differently. Fortune 500 rigor, delivered by the people who actually do the work.

ZS Associates

Fortune 500 Pharma Analytics

All three partners started their careers at ZS, a global analytics and strategy firm known for its deep roots in pharmaceutical and life sciences consulting. At ZS, they worked on commercial strategy, data infrastructure, and performance analytics at Fortune 500 scale.

That training shaped everything about how Cascade operates: structured methodology, rigorous data governance, and solutions that hold up under real business pressure. The difference now is scale. A team small enough to pick up the phone, know your business by name, and stay involved long after the first deliverable ships.

Meet the Partners

Austin Beane, Partner at Cascade Consulting Group

Austin Beane

Partner

Former ZS Associates and National Veterinary Associates consultant with deep pharmaceutical experience. He specializes in incentive compensation design, performance measurement, and building the data infrastructure underneath it all. Austin delivers analytics that sales, marketing, and leadership teams actually use.

Education

B.S. Systems Engineering

University of Virginia

$5B+ building materials distributor

Incentive Compensation Redesign

Partnered with a global consulting firm to analyze 30M+ rows of SAP commissions data. Built a dynamic SQL Server/Python pipeline and Power BI dashboards to surface plan inefficiencies.

Pharmaceutical launch team

Pharma Commercial Data Infrastructure

Built a HIPAA-compliant Azure data warehouse and ETL pipelines in 60 days for a dermatology product launch. Deployed real-time Power BI dashboards for 60+ field reps and home office leadership.

Mitch Plys, Partner at Cascade Consulting Group

Mitch Plys

Partner

Go-to-market strategy expert and former ZS Associates consultant. Mitch helps companies align their products with market needs, drive revenue growth, and build strong client relationships. His specialties are brand planning, product launches, market segmentation, and customer journey analytics across pharma and financial services.

Education

B.S. Marketing & Finance

Franciscan University

$9B+ asset manager

Advisor Contact Data Enrichment

Integrated enriched advisor contact data into Salesforce to improve outreach, segmentation, and sales enablement.

Multi-billion-dollar asset manager

Advanced Planning Alignment

Developed a strategic roadmap for HNW planning offerings backed by Cerulli market research and in-depth channel analysis across broker-dealers, RIAs, wirehouses, and private banks.

Gage Jenkins, Partner at Cascade Consulting Group

Gage Jenkins

Partner

Data and analytics specialist and former ZS Associates consultant and subject matter expert. Gage leads cross-functional projects end to end, from KPI development and data strategy through ETL pipelines, report design, and performance measurement. He builds the data ecosystems that teams across the organization rely on.

Education

B.S. Business Administration

UNC-Chapel Hill (Kenan-Flagler)

150-location retail chain

Azure Cloud Data Migration

Migrated an on-premises data warehouse handling 100k+ daily transactions to Azure Cloud. Created a unified data model and new reporting suite.

Pharmaceutical launch team

Patient Journey Analysis

Ran Patient/HCP segmentation on 5+ years of IQVIA PLD data covering 35m+ diabetic and at-risk-CV patients. Informed launch plans, targeting, and commercial strategy.

Beyond the Partners

Our team structure lets us scale up or down based on exactly what your project needs, without the overhead of a large firm.

Managing

Partners

Mitch, Austin, Gage

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Internal Advisors

Senior advisors including ex-CEOs, C-Suite executives, and Fortune 500 leaders with decades of experience leading enterprise transformations. They provide strategic guidance and operational excellence on every project.

15

In-Network Experts

Subject matter experts spanning pharma, financial services, commercial analytics, and data engineering. Through strategic partnerships, we expand our capabilities to deliver specialized solutions without adding permanent headcount.

Dedicated Offshore Team

Skilled professionals in key regions who extend our capacity and enable around-the-clock execution. When timelines are tight, we scale without compromising quality or cost efficiency.

Flexible sizing based on client & project needs

Want to meet the team?

When you hire Cascade, you work directly with the partners. Not a rotating cast of junior analysts you’ve never met.

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