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Chad Arnold brings 15+ years of senior level experience including roles as a venture-backed CEO, COO, and executive director, to help companies tackle complex challenges in strategy, growth, and leadership. He specializes in helping growth stage companies and high-performing teams align culture with business goals, build scalable systems, and navigate pivotal transitions. Chad now operates The A Company, a company he founded to provide the kind of skilled and experienced partnership he needed when managing through growth and uncertainty. His flexible approach as a coach, consultant, and fractional executive seeks to meet leaders where they are, helping through the complex decisions, operational hurdles, and critical inflection points on the way to achieving their vision.

Chad’s work spans wide ranging industries including eCommerce, technology, health and wellness, real estate, and nonprofit sectors, with a focus on building resilient teams and operational systems that scale. He has helped companies grow from pre-revenue to over $50+ million in revenue, managed teams of 500+ employees, raised over $45 million in equity and debt financing, completed six M&A transactions, and facilitated multiple successful exits. As the CEO of one of the largest venture and private equity-backed online grocery companies in the U.S., he oversaw operations across seven distribution centers serving 20 states, developed last-mile delivery networks, and launched strategic partnerships with for-profit, nonprofit, and government agencies. His leadership has been acknowledged with honors such as the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year finalist and multiple Top Company awards from ColoradoBiz Magazine.

Chad is also a certified Integral Coach through New Ventures West and an active mentor with Techstars Boulder, Techstars Sustainability with The Nature Conservancy, and Techstars Workforce, where he supports founders and fosters entrepreneurial growth. Whether coaching executives, operating companies, or partnering with organizations, Chad is deeply committed to unlocking potential—both in individuals and the companies they lead.

With more than 20 years of experience in grant writing, Meg brings solid strategic thinking to nonprofits seeking fundraising support. From identifying qualified prospects to writing compelling narratives, Meg has worked with liberal arts colleges, arts organizations, and other nonprofit entities throughout her career. She takes a holistic approach to project/proposal management, ensuring communication and task completion, assisting nonprofit leaders in articulating their program needs and benefits, and empowering them to imagine strategic links that lead to larger grants. Most recently, she designed the successful $15 million proposal for a private foundation grant to support a new data analytics center at Denison University, where she served as foundation and corporate relations director. Previously, she held a similar position at Kenyon College. Both institutions are among the country’s leading private liberal arts colleges.

Meg is skilled in performing background research on organizations seeking financial support and partners. This research includes identifying services, projects and other opportunities—an inventory of sorts—that dovetail with foundation priorities. She is adept at seeing how the nonprofit’s inventory aligns with foundations, and then developing and writing the convincing rationale for foundation investment.

Prior to her work in the liberal arts, Meg held executive and leadership positions in the arts, each of which included responsibility for foundation and government grants. She served as managing editor of one of the nation’s oldest and most revered literary journals, The Kenyon Review. In addition, she acquired expertise in corporate sponsorship through sports and special event consulting.

A native of Columbus, Ohio, Meg currently resides in Mount Vernon, a semi-rural Ohio town, with her husband and five cats. She is an avid gardener and writer. Before her knees gave out, she was a fencing coach for teens in the community, an amateur competitive fencer, and past editor of American Fencing magazine.

Beyond her professional accomplishments, Susanne has been a group fitness instructor for over 25 years, inspiring others to prioritize health and wellness. She has hiked two mountains and is already scouting her next adventure.

Karl is a highly accomplished CFO with a proven track record in the Medical Devices and Biosciences sectors, specializing in strategic financial management and operational growth. As an award-winning leader, he has a history of raising substantial funds and driving financial innovation. Karl is known for fostering collaborative environments that inspire high-performing teams and is equally comfortable as employee #4 or employee #10,001.

Fundraising

As an experienced strategic business leader, Karl effectively integrates within leadership teams to develop annual business plans with clear metrics and goals, both in small single-location companies and multi-location, multi-currency companies.

Financial Leadership

As CFO, Karl raised $35M of private placement funding through 506(b) and 506(c) offerings by co-creating and presenting pitch decks to VC firms, placement agents, and high-net-worth individuals.

Financial Leadership

In several roles, Karl has led teams with full Balance Sheet and P&L responsibility, particularly in cash management, ensuring that organizations maximized sales opportunities and met profitability targets by closely and successfully managing expenses.

Karl has led finance teams from pre-clinical concept stages through to post 510(k) clearance and CE Mark approval, developing and implementing processes and new tools that effectively and efficiently support the company’s needs.

Innovation and Process Implementation

As a detail-oriented and innovative finance leader, Karl has developed and implemented new processes and tools tailored to the organization’s needs, maintaining appropriate controls and flexibility. As CFO of Accure Acne, this meant identifying cloud-based tools that supported smaller operations. At Covidien, this involved implementing European-wide ERP systems and associated applications that supported multi-billion dollar operations. This strength in innovation led to winning the 2013 Covidien Innovation Award in Business and Culture.

Laura Spitzmiller is a dynamic business strategist and operational leader who partners with business owners to streamline operations, create sustainable systems, and drive intentional growth. With over 15 years of experience spanning private equity, real estate, and high-growth business environments, Laura brings a unique blend of financial acumen, operational expertise, and leadership development to help leaders reclaim their time and focus on their vision.

Laura serves as a Fractional Chief of Staff, offering executive-level guidance without the full-time commitment. She specializes in strategic planning, business process optimization, and team alignment, enabling leaders to scale their operations while maintaining clarity and efficiency. Her intuitive approach blends high-level strategy with tactical execution, ensuring businesses operate smoothly while staying aligned with long-term goals.

Laura played a pivotal role at VanWest Partners, leading portfolio management and operations for a multi-million-dollar real estate investment firm. She has successfully executed growth initiatives, managed high-value financial assets, and built teams that drive efficiency and impact. With a background in banking, acquisitions, and project management, she is adept at turning complex challenges into actionable strategies.

Laura holds a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from the University of Colorado Boulder’s Leeds School of Business, with certifications in Real Estate and Entrepreneurial & Small Business Management. She has been recognized for her leadership in CREW Denver, where she directed corporate sponsorships and expanded membership.

Laura thrives in fast-paced, high-growth environments where she can bring order to complexity, reduce decision fatigue, and create space for visionary leadership.

For over 30 years, David has helped business leaders make transformational changes to their companies to achieve their desired outcomes. David has designed and lead the transformation of each aspect of a business, for example scaling the M&A integration strategy of a global resort company from one integration each year to more than seven each year, transitioning a midstream energy company from 1980s batch technology to state-of-the-art operations technology, establishing a health information ex-change across a healthcare provider system and 25 specialty clinics to share patient information at the point of care, and implementing a global operating model for several multi-national companies to achieve operational efficiencies.

After successfully delivering business transformations for two decades, David narrowed his focus to trans-forming sales functions to achieve growth goals. Too many companies set aggressive growth goals and don’t invest in or equip their sellers to achieve the goal, resulting in missing performance expectations year after year. David works with executive teams to align each part of their go-to-market strategy, sales execution, and sales operation to meet or exceed growth goals. David also trains and coaches salespersons to improve the effectiveness of how they engage with prospects and clients. One example is when David transformed his own sales operation and team. As the pandemic began in 2020, David’s sales team faced a challenge. How do you continue to grow sales when there is increased competition for smaller customer budgets? How do you sell to business leaders who say they don’t have time to be sold to? How do you sell to C-suite and board buyers when historically you’ve sold to buyers lower in the organization? David responded by transforming his sales function. In the first year his team increased topline sales by 20% and in the subsequent year the team increased sales an additional 40%.David has also served on the boards for several nonprofit and community organizations.

Alex Teece is an experienced leader in the non-profit sector, known for founding, growing, and leading transformative organizations and educational programs over the past 15 years.  With deep expertise in nonprofit development, leadership, and strategic growth, Alex partners with mission-driven organizations to turn vision into impact.

Alex founded and led Hawaii’s newest and fastest-growing non-profit and public charter school, DreamHouse.  A Teach For America teacher, he was responsible for raising millions of dollars from philanthropists and underwriting the state’s first-ever municipal bond for a non-profit charter school which paved the way for a state-of-the-art high school facility.

Following a decade of non-profit leadership, Alex joined McKinsey & Company and worked alongside the CEO Excellence team to advise Fortune 100 leaders on succession planning and strategic projects.  He also supported large foundations and non-profit clients through sensitive, high stakes initiatives that required high levels of confidentiality and intense leadership collaboration.

Alex has since founded Alex Teece Consulting, a leadership advisory practice committed to supporting clients with growth strategy and leadership succession.  He helps executive-level leaders and governing boards was in shaping and executing their strategic efforts while supporting fundraising, leadership development, and organizational growth.

Sally Sorte is a seasoned organizational leader with 15+ years of experience driving impact across public and private sectors. She excels in building strong teams and achieving operational excellence, particularly during periods of significant change – from founding journeys to leadership transitions, acquisitions to launching new initiatives or revenue streams.

Her diverse background includes consulting at McKinsey & Co., optimizing marketing strategy at Google, and early-stage investing in education and workforce technologies with EduLab Capital Partners. In these roles, Sally has served on boards and advised CEOs across the seasons of a company’s life cycle.

Sally’s public sector journey began as a Teach for America corps member in Hawai’i, teaching 9th grade English. She went on to found and lead a charter school in Denver, Colorado, focused on providing wraparound services and closing achievement gaps in a historically underserved community. For the past seven years, she has also shared her expertise as a nonprofit and business leadership instructor at the Oregon State College of Business.

Sally is a strategic thinker who thrives on translating vision into action, creating sustainable systems, and empowering teams to achieve ambitious goals.

Scott Adams is a results-driven leader with a proven track record of scaling operations, optimizing business processes, and driving transformational initiatives across the healthcare, wellness, and sports technology industries. He is an expert in integrating cutting-edge frameworks like Exponential Organizations (ExO), Entrepreneurial Operating Systems (EOS), and Strategic Coach methodologies to achieve rapid growth and sustainable success. He has a passion for leveraging AI and advanced technologies to enhance operational efficiencies and decision-making.

Scott has worked with organizations like Mayo Clinic, Google, Intel, EXOS, NFL Players Association, Boston Consulting Group, and Deloitte. He has held leadership positions at Mayo Clinic, EXOS, and Anton Sport & Companies, where he consistently exceeded expectations and drove significant organizational growth.

At Mayo Clinic, Scott led the successful launch of a new Sports Medicine division, generating $25M in profits. He established high-profile partnerships with sports teams and universities, expanding brand awareness and patient demographics. He also achieved a 98th percentile in patient and staff satisfaction. Additionally, Scott spearheaded the launch of Mayo Clinic’s Virtual Hospital.

As Director of Operations at EXOS, Scott oversaw operations across 30+ international facilities, scaling the division from 6 to 300+ employees. He developed global strategies incorporating technology to enhance health outcomes and productivity. Scott fostered partnerships with major clients, contributing to the development of a comprehensive online wellness platform with over 1 million users.