Steve Mortensen – CEO / Senior Consultant
Mr. Mortensen is a successful business development veteran, financial analyst, capitalization specialist, and serial entrepreneur with more than 30 years of hands-on experience in operational, management, and executive roles. His expertise includes startups, financial modeling, private equity, small business capitalization, business process development, marketing and sales, strategic planning, product development, video production, troubleshooting, training, and international business. He is also proficient in information technologies, social media production, software development, and many engineering and manufacturing methodologies. His strategic approaches have worked effectively on projects with NASA, Samsung, General Electric, and many other large and small companies around the world.
After 15 years in the engineering and manufacturing industries, Mr. Mortensen began consulting with small businesses. He developed processes and approaches that enabled many hundreds of clients to raise well over $100 million for their businesses and achieve a wide range of other positive business outcomes. He has enabled small companies to successfully penetrate markets dominated by industry leaders, grow revenue and profit during periods of significant decline, build and sustain effective new distribution channels, triple sales closing ratios, successfully integrate business acquisitions, and much more.
Mr. Mortensen has enabled companies to successfully penetrate new markets, grow revenue and profit during periods of significant decline, build and sustain effective new distribution channels, triple sales closing ratios, successfully integrate business acquisitions, and much more. He has spent more than 24 months on international assignments throughout Asia, Latin America, and Europe, and is fluent in Spanish and reads several other languages. Mr. Mortensen is an equity holder and active participant in a variety of financial, technology, and business service companies. He has been an active member of The Executive Committee (today known as Vistage), a regional business ambassador, and is a published columnist and Eagle Scout.