I’ve built from zero and inside scale.

My work has mostly lived around complex, relationship-driven businesses where growth isn’t obvious.

I’ve built the go-to-market engine from the ground up, and I’ve worked inside an established institutional platform to build the next layer of growth.

Mike Auerbach at his desk, writing in a notebook beside a laptop

1031 Specialists

I helped build the business from the idea stage into a national platform.

The work started with the basics: positioning, go-to-market strategy, partnerships, demand generation, customer experience, and distribution. We had to figure out who the customer was, why they should care, how we’d reach them, and what had to be built to support growth.

That taught me how to build from zero.

Bonaventure

I joined an already successful institutional platform and focused on building the groundwork for the next growth engine. I served on the C-level team of a $3B investment manager.

The work was about connecting product strategy, positioning, partnerships, distribution, direct-investor growth, and internal teams so the platform could support new products and new channels.

That taught me how to build inside scale.

The work I’m best at

I’m best when the product is real, the opportunity is there, and the path to growth still needs to be figured out.

Positioning. Partnerships. Distribution. Go-to-market. The operating layer around all of it.

I like building the part of the business that turns a good product into a growth engine.

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