Founder & Principal Consultant

Lauren Bailey

Lauren Bailey didn't take the conventional path to consulting — and that's exactly what makes her effective.

She started in science. Dual degrees in Genetics and Animal Science from NC State. A Master's in Functional Genomics and Bioinformatics. Years in a research lab studying evolutionary barriers in yeast, running statistical models in R, and learning what it actually means to build an argument from data rather than assumption. She published. She taught. She learned that rigorous thinking is a discipline, not a credential.

Then she took that rigor into industry. At Charles River Laboratories, she led genomic data validation across seven global laboratories, navigated some of the most demanding regulatory environments in the world — CDC, FDA, USDA, cGMP — and spearheaded AI-assisted software validation that measurably improved throughput and reduced analytical variability. She co-founded a biosafety committee, trained teams across continents, and led cross-site investigative work that earned recognition at the company level. She learned what it means to own outcomes, not just produce analyses.

Grocery retail, it turns out, was always in the background. Lauren grew up watching her father build a career at HEB — one of the most operationally excellent grocery companies in the country — and absorbed early on that the difference between a good store and a great one comes down to execution, data, and the willingness to act on both. That foundation never left her.

That same discipline is what she now brings to grocery retail and consumer packaged goods — an industry where the gap between what the data says and what actually happens on the shelf costs retailers and vendors billions of dollars every year. Lauren has spent considerable time in the weeds of retail execution: modeling out-of-stock economics, quantifying the cost of planogram non-compliance, and building the analytical case for why near real-time shelf intelligence isn't a technology investment — it's a margin recovery strategy. She understands the full availability picture, from DC to stockroom to shelf, and she knows exactly where the losses hide.

LoMac Consulting is the synthesis of all of it. Lauren founded LoMac because she kept seeing the same problem across industries — retailers, CPG brands, life science companies, and pharmaceutical organizations sitting on data they weren't fully using, making high-stakes decisions based on intuition dressed up as strategy. LoMac exists to close that gap. The firm works across data migration and system modernization, platform and tech stack consulting, predictive modeling, causal inference, and original research — including white papers, competitor analysis, and market research — all built to deliver results that are statistically defensible, not just directionally interesting. Evidence is a competitive advantage. LoMac helps you build it.



When she's not building models or advising clients, Lauren is based in Troutman, North Carolina, where she lives with the kind of stubbornness about getting things right that tends to serve her clients very well.