About Michelle
Expertise
Michelle Paratore is a principal based in Bain & Company’s San Francisco office. She is an expert in the firm’s Retail, Private Equity and Customer Strategy & Marketing practices.
Since joining Bain in 2007, Michelle has honed broad expertise across the retail sphere, serving clients in such sectors as beauty & cosmetics, apparel & footwear, restaurants and internet retail. She specializes in retail and consumer private equity, digital marketing, test & learn and human-centered design.
She is also deeply versed in brand and customer strategy, channel excellence, commercial due diligence and value creation planning.
She holds an MBA from Stanford University and a bachelor’s degree from Brown University, from which she graduated Phi Beta Kappa.