We help our clients achieve
higher exit valuations.

We’re deeply committed to helping you get more for your business.

What makes us different?

WE ARE
WE ARE NOT
WHY
Strategic
WE ARE NOT
Transactional
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First and foremost, we’re not brokers. We don’t push the sale of your business to profit from it. Instead, we build and help implement the strategies that yield higher exit results.

WE ARE
Revenue focused
WE ARE NOT
Expense focused
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We're revenue growth experts, not cost analysts. Our focus is on understanding how you can create a more valuable business to your market—and, as a result, your future buyer.

WE ARE
Actively committed
WE ARE NOT
Passive
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We’re not just coaches for your business. Nor are we just consultants that throw a set of recommendations over the wall. No. We’re right there with you, working with you through the transformation, co-committed to your success.

WE ARE
Working for a better world
WE ARE NOT
Working just for ourselves
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We’re in this to make a difference in our world. We hope you are too. To that end, we donate half of the profit we receive to support nonprofit organizations around the world.

Our Team

Leary Gates

Managing Partner & Business Growth Strategy

Leary leads the market development and growth strategy work for our clients. For the last 30 years, he's advised Fortune 100, start-ups, and a host of middle market tech, manufacturing, and business services firms on market and corporate development and exit strategies.

John Moroney

Sales Strategy

John is a master at helping companies create their “sales recipe" for predictable and scalable growth, whether a business startup or a transformation. He has sold, managed, and served as a sales leader in enterprise software companies and led manufacturing operations in medtech and semiconductor industries.

Ryan Gates

Marketing Strategy

Ryan loves helping our clients find the best way to create engagement and is an expert at multiplatform digital strategies to do so. For the past decade he has helped companies like Target, Voya Financial, and other leading firms create meaningful customer interactions.

Mike Swenson

Market - Customer - Product research

Mike helps our clients map their products and capabilities to the market needs. He conducts focus groups, executive interviews, and surveys to understand the voice of the customer. Mike has served as an industry analyst for IDC, and helped build CIO Magazine's CIO Executive Council among other things.

On a mission to make a difference?

Our goal is to help you grow your business and change the world. If that’s your goal, let’s talk.