Most organizations are drowning in data and starving for insight. GMBS Consulting bridges the gap between what your data contains and what your leadership can act on — with the rigor of federal research and the clarity of a trusted advisor.
Start a Conversation See How We WorkYou have data. You have reports. You may even have dashboards. But somewhere between the SQL query and the boardroom, the insight gets lost — and decisions get made on instinct anyway.
This isn't a technology problem. It's a translation problem. And it's more common than most organizations want to admit.
GMBS Consulting exists at that intersection. We take the kind of rigorous analytical discipline developed in federal research environments — where the stakes of being wrong are measured in public health, not just quarterly earnings — and apply it to your most complex data challenges.
"The goal is not more data. The goal is better decisions. Those are not the same thing — and confusing them is expensive."
— Gregory M. Blumenthal, PhD
Principal, GMBS Consulting
Every engagement starts with a conversation. If we're not the right fit, we'll tell you — and point you toward someone who is.
A structured assessment of your current data infrastructure, reporting practices, and how analytics actually inform decisions. Delivered in 2–3 weeks as a written findings report with prioritized recommendations.
Full-scope data science projects designed around your specific challenge — from predictive model development and risk analysis frameworks to impact measurement systems and secure data architecture.
A monthly advisory relationship that puts a senior data scientist in your corner — without the overhead of a full-time hire. Strategic guidance, QA on internal analytics work, and executive-level interpretation on demand.
Gregory M. Blumenthal, PhD is the Principal of GMBS Consulting. His career began not in boardrooms, but in laboratories — building predictive models of how toxic substances move through biological systems, for agencies that couldn't afford to be wrong.
That work — developing PBPK models for the US EPA, contributing to projects for the NIH, VA, and NASA — instilled a discipline that most business analysts never acquire: the habit of interrogating your own assumptions before your results become decisions.
He now applies that same rigor to the data problems that matter to organizations in healthcare, cybersecurity, nonprofit strategy, and beyond. He is also the co-author of the annual Memphis Poverty Fact Sheet, a resource that uses demographic data to drive policy and community understanding of poverty in the Mid-South.
He is based in Memphis, TN, and works with clients nationally and internationally.
Details are anonymized to protect client confidentiality. These represent the kinds of engagements GMBS Consulting takes on.
An international cybersecurity firm had sophisticated threat detection capabilities but struggled to communicate risk levels to non-technical executive leadership and enterprise clients. Reporting was technically accurate but operationally useless.
GMBS redesigned the analytics framework to express threat data in business-impact terms — cost exposure, operational risk, and decision thresholds — rather than technical severity scores.
Co-authored an annual data resource that synthesizes census, economic, and demographic data to give policymakers, journalists, and community advocates a rigorous, accessible picture of poverty dynamics in Memphis and Shelby County.
The project requires not just analytical precision but the ability to communicate complex socioeconomic relationships to audiences with widely varying technical backgrounds.
Developed objective criteria for evaluating Physiologically Based Pharmacokinetic models used in federal risk assessments — analytical tools that inform how regulators determine safe exposure thresholds for toxic substances.
The work required building evaluation frameworks that were both scientifically rigorous and practically applicable across a wide range of model types and chemical classes.
A growing remote work platform needed to understand user behavior patterns, retention risk, and feature adoption across a geographically distributed international user base — but had no systematic approach to collecting or interpreting that data.
GMBS designed and implemented the analytical infrastructure from the ground up, including data pipelines, retention modeling, and an executive dashboard that surfaced actionable signals.
The Memphis Poverty Fact Sheet is an annual publication co-authored by Dr. Blumenthal that uses rigorous demographic and economic analysis to document poverty dynamics in the Memphis metro area.
It is used by policymakers, nonprofit organizations, journalists, and community advocates as a primary reference for understanding — and responding to — economic hardship in one of America's most economically challenged cities.
This work reflects a core belief at GMBS Consulting: that the same analytical discipline that serves corporations and federal agencies can and should serve communities.
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Memphis, Tennessee
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