Building Possibility Together
I started Granite Ridge Advisors after spending 25+ years in enterprise program and operations management including sales, manufacturing and consulting — leading complex enterprise transformations and sales at Intel, Wells Fargo, Quest Software, Databank, and Stratascale. I have a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Arizona State, and a PMP, CSPO, and Lean Six Sigma Green Belt to go with it.
I started working at age 13 for my dad’s turn-key power supply company, first as an assembler and trying to figure out processes to make the work easier and faster. I soon was asked to develop our quality framework, involved in managing our sale force, inventory management, testing and, at the same time, earning my degree. From there I moved over to Intel and worked as a Research and Development Engineer and got to travel the world! I owned products, I owned development of tooling and eventually managed a team of global engineers and vendors to develop the latest generation of test equipment - what learning experience that was!
After 12 years at Intel, I was recruited by a friend to come help his company sharpen their solution delivery in the professional services industry. As an Enterprise Portfolio Manager for public, private and fortune 500 companies, I reprised their traditional waterfall delivery, turned to my experience at Intel and deployed a hybrid waterfall/agile delivery method speeding up our delivery outcomes and increasing customer satisfaction to keep up with the pace of changing business needs.
From there I moved to Wells Fargo Bank in their Global Enterprise Operations Group delivering ML and AI e-discovery tools and was exposed to a whole new set of regulatory compliance that I was, quite honestly, unaware existed. I built and delivered the bank’s target operating model for their global Privacy initiative and several other regulatory programs.
Since Wells, I’ve worked in sales and cybersecurity managing large scale enterprise transformations. But, you may ask, why am I telling you all this?
I’ve realized after all of these corporate opportunities and making large companies more profitable, there is a whole community of small business I would like to help. That is why I started Granite Ridge Advisors. I want to take all of that corporate experience and help our local communities and business owners get to the next level.
My passions are coaching and mentoring our young workforce, building high-performing organizations, process improvement, creating efficient businesses and improving your bottom line. I also love making your business scalable by building reliable platforms to get you to the next level of success.
More recently, I started evaluating small businesses myself through Granite Ridge Holdings — and it taught two things. First, most small businesses aren’t quite ready to sell. Secondly, growth and exit strategies are the same work for small businesses. If you are looking to grow, we have you covered. Wanting to sell - we have your back there as well. Click below to get started or simply call!
Fractional Advisory - Every company has its fair share of inefficiencies and that is where Granite Ridge can help. Whether you need fractional C-Suite support, building operational excellence or scalable business units we accomplished this at scale across globally diverse teams. We are here to get you and your company to the next level of success.
Growth and Exit Strategy- Every deal I’ve looked at as a buyer has taught me the same lesson from a different angle: the gap between what an owner believes their business is worth and what a real buyer with real capital will actually pay is almost always about readiness, not value. The businesses that sell well aren’t lucky — they were built, deliberately, to run without their owner, to show clean and consistent numbers, and to survive real diligence needed to make a sale. That’s the work Granite Ridge Advisors does, and it’s the same discipline I bring from two and a half decades of enterprise program leadership: assess honestly, prioritize ruthlessly, and execute.
Contract Services - When companies need support but not an FTE, we can provide the necessary people and skills you need.