A FULL-STACK GROWTH & EXIT STRATEGY CONSULTANCY
We turn process, product, and go-to-market investment into a seamless commercial engine.
OUR PURPOSE
To sharpen performance today and unlock growth for tomorrow. We pursue clarity through purposeful curiosity—examining your operations, processes, and team dynamics to identify bottlenecks that limit performance. We streamline workflows, improve handoffs, and enhance the customer journey to unlock measurable value. We also build growth engines by strengthening customer insights, refining product offerings and elevating your brand positioning, so you can anticipate needs, lead in shifting markets, and deliver sustainable growth.
BRAND EXPERIENCE
DAVE WILLIAMS, PRINCIPAL
Fueled by curiosity, I’ve built an eclectic career that bridges creativity and commerce. My journey spans a range of consumer-facing & B2B industries, during which I developed deep domain knowledge in operations, marketing, product creation and merchandising and a knack for identifying trends and finding opportunities in crowded markets.
My path has included coaching collegiate basketball, multi-disciplinary leadership roles at global brands and billion dollar business units, revitalizing plateaued businesses and founding multiple start-ups. Along the way, I’ve created legacy products, rebuilt brands, teams and businesses, and earned hard-won insights and resilience through success and failure.
I am a fractional CGO ready to contribute my polymath skillset to help you realize your business' potential.
PORTFOLIO
Finding A Brand's Soul
Turning Insight Into Reality
Creating Legacy Product
In the face of mounting concern over the militarization of police forces, Safariland, a maker of body armor, wanted to share their core values to the general public. We launched the "Living Proof" campaign, showcasing the testimony of officers who were saved by their Safariland vest, reinforcing the company's commitment to their at-risk community, while transforming public perception through relatability.
Creating Legacy Product
Turning Insight Into Reality
Creating Legacy Product
As Product Marketing and Design Director of Nike Basketball in the mid-nineties, I led arguably the industry's most innovative team, producing iconic concepts like the Hyper Flight, Foamposite and the Zoom Flight. These fueled $300M in growth, pushing the category to $1B in revenue and over 70% category share. It was the genesis of a long track record of building teams and processes that produced breakthrough products.
Turning Insight Into Reality
Turning Insight Into Reality
Turning Insight Into Reality
In a community of creatives, Portland's new home market was equivalent to eating paste. I founded Rezide to change that. In the process, we transformed neighborhoods, defined the marketing language of pre-sale real estate and changed the notion that unique custom homes were unattainable. As proof of concept, in its first 5 years Rezide generated $16M in sales.
Making Impossible Happen
Bringing Concepts To Market
Turning Insight Into Reality
As a fledgling entrepreneur, I managed to secure a footwear and accessory license with Lego. In 7 short months, we designed a product line, built a supply chain and e-commerce website, hired a sales force, all while delivering product in time for Christmas.
Market-Altering Innovation
Bringing Concepts To Market
Bringing Concepts To Market
As the new Nike Tennis Business Director, I was driven to kickstart a flatlined category. Digging through the Nike Innovations Lab trash can, I discovered a piece of plastic welded to mesh. Intuitively, I knew it solved the lightweight-durability riddle. That insight led to the 1st Nike Zoom Breathe, an innovation that turbo-charged the business and still dominates how tennis performance footwear is made.
Bringing Concepts To Market
Bringing Concepts To Market
Bringing Concepts To Market
Facing two influential consumer groups resistant to interloper brands, we launched Levi's Skate and Commuter Collections. With the motto "Don't Scare the Ferret," we crafted a nuanced go-to-market strategy resulting in opening the top 200 skate and 75 cycling doors in the US.
"[Mayne] had a marvelous battle nostril. He could really sense precisely what he had to do in a situation. It wasn’t sheer courage, it was sheer technique."
- Colonel David Stirling, Founder of the Special Air Service (SAS), 1941
Lieutenant-Colonel Paddy Mayne, SAS
Special Forces Northern Africa WWII