Kelsey Linden

Kelsey Linden is a Vice President and co-lead of the Commercial Center of Excellence (COE) at Shore Capital Partners, a lower middle-market private equity firm focused on companies with $1-10M of EBITDA. Kelsey’s responsibilities include working with investment, board, and management teams to identify and execute commercial growth and value creation opportunities in the portfolio, including developing go-to-market strategies and executing initiatives related to marketing, CRM, digital, and full-funnel revenue performance.

 

The COE is part of the Portfolio Performance Group, a strategic investment in over 50 people providing access to Fortune 500-caliber resources designed to work with your company over the life of our partnership. The COE focuses on “transformation” to help you scale during the partnership. These highly experienced and accomplished executives have functional expertise in IT, HR, M&A, sales, marketing, data, RCM, lean manufacturing, and payor strategy.

 

Prior to joining Shore, Kelsey was VP of GTM & Marketing at Aspen Dental, where she led cross-functional teams across marketing, digital, CRM, analytics, and product to drive revenue growth. Before Aspen Dental, Kelsey was a leader at Bain & Company, where she advised clients on growth strategy, digital transformation, and operating model redesign.

 

Kelsey holds an M.B.A. from the Kellogg School of Management and a B.A. in Economics from Vanderbilt University.