Former CPO and GM of startups and mid-sized companies including Upwork, 33Across, Financial Engines, Realtor.com, as well as Operating Executive at Silver Lake, a leading tech private equity firm. I’ve gone through multiple adventures of creating new product categories, finding product-market fit, (re)building the organization, and scaling from pre-revenue to eight+ figures. Lately, I’ve been […]
Over the past few decades I’ve worn various hats as part of the founding teams of companies in the technology, restaurant and real estate industries. My early career was focused on real estate private equity finance and early-stage technology investing (eCompanies). Subsequently I helped launch technology companies including Boingo Wireless (NASDAQ IPO), Curby (sold to
Owner, Luke Welch GTM Consulting. Advisor to Founders and Sales executives. Former Global Head of Sales at Salesforce, ex SAP. Luke has twenty years of experience selling B2B solutions to US and global organizations. Luke has operated as a freelance consultant to B2B startups since 2022 and advises on early stage GTM processes. Luke mentors
Philip Park is a Vice President at Phi Ventures USA and leads the post-merger integration team. He specializes in accelerating growth through roll-up acquisitions and using AI to improve knowledge transfer, performance management, and talent retention. <p> Prior to Phi Ventures USA, Philip managed corporate finance for Cetera Financial Group and led post-merger integration initiatives
Product executive, coach and transformation leader with twenty-five years of experience scaling startups up through global businesses. Proven success as CPO at Fetch (grew from 1.2M to 5.1M active customers), VP Product at Groupon (led product through hypergrowth prior to IPO), as well as product executive roles at DoorDash, eBay, and Gaia Interactive. As a
Roberto is a board member in cybersecurity, AI, Blockchain, IoT, middleware, API security, microservices, DevOps, software, SaaS, cloud and healthcare companies. Roberto has been an executive at five public companies and in a board position of more than 15 that have been acquired. He has experience with Fortune 100 companies on digital transformation initiatives using
Hila is highly respected and thought-after growth advisor. She was Executive in Residence at Reforge and former Director of Growth at GitLab, where she helped establish the Product-led growth motion and contributed to the company's successful IPO. Previously, as VP Growth at Acorns, she built a full-funnel growth team and helped scale the user base
Stephen Cho is a seasoned startup CFO and operator. He currently advises venture-backed Pre-Seed to Series B startups on fundraising, M&A and building finance functions. He was most recently CFO at Papaya, previously served as VP Finance and GM at Acorns, and has co-founded multiple startups. Prior to becoming an operator, Stephen worked in investment
Executive search and venture investing. We partner with emerging-stage companies — typically post-seed, taking on exec searches and investing at Series A/B. We offer discounted fees in exchange for warrants or discounted pro rata rights in the next round, and treat search as a form of diligence. We will work with later stage as well,
