Commercial Leadership is Built through Execution.
Over the past 17+ years, I have worked within founder-led organizations, private equity-backed companies, and growth-stage businesses focused on scaling revenue, expanding enterprise relationships, and increasing enterprise value.
My experience spans commercial leadership, enterprise sales, strategic partnerships, revenue operations, and growth transformation initiatives across multiple industries.
Selected Business Outcomes
Commercial Operator & Revenue Transformation Leader
Senior commercial executive with experience scaling revenue, rebuilding underperforming businesses, and driving enterprise growth across healthcare, dental, technology, and private equity-backed organizations.
Built and led revenue systems across founder-led and PE environments, including enterprise sales, pricing architecture, retention strategy, and go-to-market transformation.
Operator Foundation (Scope + Responsibility)
Reported directly to the CEO with accountability across revenue growth, retention, pricing, sales performance, and commercial execution across multiple business units. Contributed to two successful private equity-backed growth and exit journeys, including Pragmatic Institute's 17x EBITDA transaction that generated 28 acquisition offers and Spear Education's evolution from founder-led growth to $100M+ and through acquisition by Linden Capital over a 13-year tenure starting as the third employee.
Crisis Response + Full Commercial Turnaround
Directed the commercial turnaround following a 98% COVID-related revenue decline, restoring EBITDA-positive performance within 90 days and delivering 20 consecutive months of revenue growth.
Company launch and high-growth period during 2007-2008 financial crisis
Turned around multiple underperforming divisions through structured sales execution systems, coaching frameworks, and repeatable revenue processes.
Revenue Architecture & System Redesign
Led full revenue diagnostic across marketing, sales, and customer lifecycle for a stagnating growth organization. Implemented value-based selling, pipeline governance, and forecasting discipline, resulting in 81% year-over-year revenue growth and generating the second and third highest quarterly opportunity creation results in the company’s 20-year history.
Established forecasting, compensation, pricing, and pipeline governance systems that materially improved commercial visibility, execution discipline, and revenue predictability.
Pricing, Packaging & Monetization Transformation
Redesigned product packaging and pricing model for a membership-based business by conducting full P&L and unit economics analysis. Aligned offer structure and compensation models to new revenue architecture, resulting in 800% year-over-year membership growth driven by improved value articulation and sales execution.
Increased membership growth by 800% YoY
Implemented multiple 20%+ annual price increases
Improved retention performance despite pricing expansion
Aligned compensation structure to revenue model transformation
Retention, Expansion & Customer Lifecycle Engineering
Rebuilt customer lifecycle strategy by repositioning client success as a revenue-generating function.
Reduced churn from 41% → 15%
Increased multi-year contract adoption from <1% → 32%
Redesigned onboarding, renewal, and expansion motions
Improved net revenue predictability and retention quality
Pipeline Expansion & Growth Engine Scaling
Scaled Revenue Infrastructure
Expanded pipeline from $6M → $26M
Increased top 20 account revenue 61% YoY
Achieved 265% growth above baseline performance (2019)
Identified ICP misalignment and restructured GTM focus toward higher-LTV segments
Enterprise Sales & Commercial Execution
Closed Complex, High-Value Enterprise Deals
30+ enterprise contracts exceeding $500K
6 enterprise RFP wins exceeding $1M
Sold into healthcare systems, Fortune 500 companies, pharma, and government organizations
Product Commercialization & Market Expansion
Built and Launched Revenue-Producing Products & Channels
Led commercialization of $6M software product with 200+ customers at launch
Built APAC and LATAM reseller networks generating six-figure revenue in 30 days
Designed enterprise pre-sales motion and contract conversion systems
Private Equity Value Creation & Exit Outcomes
Value Creation in PE-Backed Environments
Contributed to 28 acquisition offers during PE-backed exit process
Supported transaction exceeding target valuation by 150%
Participated in growth-to-exit journey at Spear Education following 13-year tenure beginning as employee #3
Contributed to long-term value creation during multiple PE-backed operating environments
Commercial Leadership Systems & Capability Building
Core Operating Areas
Revenue Architecture & Design
Enterprise Sales Execution
Pricing & Monetization Strategy
Retention & Expansion Systems
Pipeline & Forecast Governance
GTM Strategy & Execution
Private Equity Value Creation
Global Key Opinion Leader (KOL) Networks
Enterprise Sales Experience
Throughout my career, I have led and supported complex enterprise sales initiatives involving healthcare systems, pharmaceutical manufacturers, Fortune 500 organizations, government agencies, and global technology companies.
Representative organizations include:
Healthcare
Kaiser Permanente
Baptist Health South Florida
CHRISTUS Health
Temple Health
Banner Health
Broward Health
Life Sciences & Medical Technology
Merck
Bristol Myers Squibb
Johnson & Johnson
Medtronic
Boston Scientific
Thermo Fisher Scientific
Regeneron
Technology
Microsoft
IBM
Oracle
SAP
Dell Technologies
NVIDIA
Financial & Professional Services
JPMorgan Chase
Accenture
Bloomberg
Warburg Pincus
Salesforce
Industrial, Manufacturing & Government
Boeing
Lockheed Martin
Honeywell
Toyota
U.S. Government
Organizations typically engage Newcomb Advisors when they are:
• Scaling beyond founder-led growth
• Building enterprise sales capabilities
• Preparing for private equity investment or exit
• Seeking fractional commercial leadership
• Improving revenue execution and operational alignment
• Navigating periods of accelerated growth or organizational change