Strategy · Operations · Growth
Helping operators and investors navigate the toughest moments—rebuilding businesses, launching new models, entering new markets, and strengthening the foundation for what comes next.
We work with businesses at the moments that matter most — when a platform needs to find its footing, when a new model needs to prove it can scale, or when an organization has outgrown the structure that got it there.
Todd Wolf
Principal Advisor
After earning his MBA from Columbia Business School, Todd started out in investment banking, then went on to found a fintech software company and help lead several healthcare businesses.
Over the last 20+ years, he’s had the chance to serve as CEO, COO, and CBO, working with startups, turnarounds, integrations, and companies in growth mode.
Sponsors who need operating support between acquisition and exit — whether that’s helping a management team get the business performing, working through an integration, or filling a gap when the timing on a hire hasn’t worked out.
Founders who are past the point where figuring it out as you go is enough. Usually the issue is operational — the business has grown faster than the infrastructure, or there’s a raise coming and the fundamentals need to be sharper.
Venture-backed teams that need someone who can move quickly and bring hands-on experience running and building teams. The challenges are often familiar — growth outpacing the organization, entering a new market, or navigating a leadership transition.
Getting the business to run better — tighter cost structure, cleaner processes, clearer accountability. Usually involves figuring out where the margin is going and building the systems to stop it.
Helping companies get ready to sell, or helping them absorb something they’ve bought. Both are harder than they look. The prep work on the sell side tends to surface things that needed fixing anyway.
Building a plan for what comes next — new markets, new sites, new revenue lines. The goal is something that holds up under pressure, not just something that sounds good in a deck.
Working with management teams getting ready to raise. That usually means tightening the story, making sure the numbers are defensible, and helping the team get comfortable with the questions they’re going to get.
Stepping in during a transition — a new CEO coming in, an executive departing, or a team that needs to be reshaped. The focus is on maintaining continuity, supporting the team, and making sure important priorities keep moving while the long-term path is put in place.
Identifying and building the partnerships that matter most — those that unlock distribution, accelerate growth, or open new markets.
We lead the work directly. Depending on what the engagement needs, we bring in operators and specialists we’ve worked with before. You will get the right people, at the right time, doing the right things.
Our recommendations come from having been in the seat. We use proven frameworks and systems, but rely on experience and judgment when things get complicated.
Not from the outside, but alongside the team, in the details, making sure things actually work and staying with it until they do.
If the issue is something different from what you think it is, we’ll say so. That’s usually more useful than hearing what you’d like to hear.
Some situations require speed. Others need time to get right. We’ve worked in both and know how to pace the work accordingly.
We lead the work directly and pull in people we trust when the engagement calls for it.
If you’re in the middle of a transition, working through growth, or trying to get something important right, we’re happy to help think it through.