Carroll Mackin
Acting COO
Carroll Mackin is a seasoned operating executive with decades of leadership experience driving turnarounds, growth, and high-stakes transitions. He’s held CEO, COO, and CFO roles with direct P&L ownership, and brings an execution-first operator’s mindset to intoMO—helping teams turn strategy into durable systems with clear accountability, financial clarity, and leadership alignment.
Summary:
Carroll Mackin is an experienced operating executive with decades of hands-on leadership experience guiding organizations through turnarounds, growth, and complex transitions. He has served as CEO, COO, and CFO, carrying direct P&L responsibility across multi-facility, capital-intensive businesses where execution, accountability, and leadership alignment were critical to success.
Carroll previously led a manufacturing company out of bankruptcy and through a sustained period of growth driven by operational discipline and strategic acquisitions, ultimately expanding the business to multiple facilities and lines of operation before a successful sale. Across his career, he has repeatedly stepped into organizations facing ambiguity, stalled performance, or scaling challenges—helping leadership teams restore clarity, stabilize execution, and build durable operating systems.
At intoMO, Carroll brings an operator’s perspective to ensure that strategy, systems, and technology translate into real-world results. His work emphasizes clear decision ownership, financial transparency, and leadership alignment—creating the conditions where both people and AI-enabled systems can perform at their best.
Highlights:
Proven Turnaround Leader:
Served as CEO of a manufacturing business that emerged from bankruptcy, scaled through multiple acquisitions, expanded to five facilities and eight business lines, and was ultimately sold after years of sustained growth.
Deep Operating Experience:
Held senior executive roles across CEO, COO, and CFO functions, with responsibility spanning operations, finance, acquisitions, and organizational leadership.
Execution-Focused Advisor:
Known for helping organizations move from strategy to action by introducing operational discipline, decision clarity, and accountability—particularly during periods of change or transition.
Leadership Development Through Experience:
Brings a coaching mindset grounded in real operating experience—supporting founders and executives as they navigate complex decisions and organizational change.
Trusted Partner to Leadership Teams:
Works closely with executives across industries to address complex business challenges, improve performance, and build leadership systems that endure beyond his direct involvement.
Approach & Credentials:
Carroll works side-by-side with founders, CEOs, and executive teams to strengthen the operating foundation of the business and ensure that strategy can be executed consistently.
Approach
Credentials
Clear roles, decision rights, and accountability across leadership teams
MBA, Northwestern University – Kellogg School of Management
Financial clarity that supports better, faster decisions
M.Eng, Northwestern University
Operational discipline without unnecessary bureaucracy
BSME, Mechanical Engineering, Vanderbilt University
Leadership alignment as a prerequisite for sustainable performance
Certified Executive Coach, Northwestern University
School of Executive Learning and Organizational Change
As Acting COO, Carroll’s role is intentionally hands-on and transitional—helping organizations stabilize, scale, and build internal capability rather than creating long-term dependency.
Today:
At intoMO, Carroll serves as Acting COO, partnering with leaders who need strategy to translate into execution—especially in moments of growth, transition, or complexity. He works closely with founders and executive teams to strengthen operational rigor, decision clarity, and leadership alignment, ensuring that systems—both human and AI-enabled—can be successfully put into motion.
