Flourish CEO, As a former consultant at Manhattan Associates, a market leader in best-of breed supply chain software, Colton specialized in business intelligence and data analytics for supply chain applications, helping dozens of companies optimize their operations. He moved onto Genuine Parts Company (Fortune #177) where he built and managed a reporting platform for dozens of distribution center operations as well as corporate inventory optimization and trade management systems. He decided to start a consulting practice focused on this discipline and ultimately founded a startup to build a SaaS analytics platform for distribution center operations. Flourish was born from this endeavor. He graduated from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville with a BS in Industrial Engineering.