Loren Trimble

Loren Trim­ble joined the Friend­ship Vil­lage Board in 2017 and is the Founder, CEO, and Man­ag­ing Direc­tor of AArete LLC, a glob­al man­age­ment con­sult­ing firm. His pri­ma­ry focus is set­ting the strate­gic direc­tion of the firm and cre­at­ing and mold­ing AArete’s go to mar­ket strat­e­gy and exe­cu­tion. In addi­tion to Mr. Trimble’s pri­ma­ry focus, he also plays a sig­nif­i­cant role in thought lead­er­ship for the firm and is at the core of AArete’s Knowl­edge Man­age­ment Cen­ter™. Loren lives and breathes every­day his pas­sion for excel­lence with AArete’s per­son­nel and clients.

He has exten­sive busi­ness and oper­a­tions strat­e­gy expe­ri­ence, serv­ing clients glob­al­ly in the fol­low­ing indus­tries: health­care- provider, pay­er and phar­ma­ceu­ti­cal, as well as high­er edu­ca­tion, dis­tri­b­u­tion, con­sumer prod­ucts, and busi­ness ser­vices. Spe­cif­ic areas of exper­tise include strate­gic cost reduc­tion, rev­enue opti­miza­tion, pre-and-post-merg­er val­u­a­tion, and syn­er­gy inte­gra­tions, and advanced data ana­lyt­ics.

Before found­ing AArete, Loren was a Man­ag­ing Direc­tor and Strate­gic Sourc­ing Prac­tice Lead at Huron Con­sult­ing. Pri­or to Huron, he start­ed the Strate­gic Sourc­ing ser­vices for Arthur Ander­sen, devel­op­ing the method­ol­o­gy and refin­ing the approach through numer­ous client engagements.

Loren has pre­sent­ed for a num­ber of orga­ni­za­tions and authored numer­ous arti­cles. He holds a Mas­ters of Busi­ness Admin­is­tra­tion from The Uni­ver­si­ty of Chica­go and a Bach­e­lor of Account­ing from The Uni­ver­si­ty of Iowa. He is a CPA and a long term mem­ber of Rotary Inter­na­tion­al and the AICPA.