Built to fill a gap the market left open.
A letter from the Managing Partner on the gap the firm was built to fill.
"Growth is one of the most important things a business will ever do, and it is the thing most often done badly."
I started my career consulting for Fortune 500s and enterprise organizations, leading growth and transformation projects: expanding a company into nineteen countries, structuring more than a billion dollars in partnerships, transforming departments, and restructuring organizations. I did that work under my first firm, Cannon Consulting.
Shortly after its founding, I got involved in the world of venture capital and startups. The more involved I got, the more clearly I saw a gap in the market. There are plenty of firms offering fractional executives, and plenty of specialists in a single function: finance, engineering, marketing. But there was no one dedicated to growth the way I believed it should be done.
Growth is one of the most important things a business will ever do, and it is the thing most often done badly.
I had seen it over and over. Companies growing irresponsibly, at a pace their operations could not carry. Companies entering the wrong markets, or entering the right markets without the right relationships waiting on the other side. Companies raising capital that did not match the plan, or running a good plan with no one at the table who had executed one before. Each of those mistakes is expensive, most of them are avoidable, and almost nobody is positioned to help with all of them at once.
So my partners and I built the firm that is. Chesterton Hills works inside its clients' businesses, across the strategy, the plan, and the execution, with the network to open the right doors in the right markets, so that growth gets done, and gets done right.
What that means in practice.
- One team, start to finish. Strategy and execution never sit with different people. We build the plan with you, run it with you, and change it when conditions change.
- Continuity when the market moves. The people who wrote the plan are the people in the room when the market moves. Nothing is handed to a second firm and nothing waits for a new team to learn the business.
- Your company stays yours. We take no equity and no percentage of any raise, in any engagement, under any structure.
- Dallas, and five regions. A fully remote firm working across North America, Latin America, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia-Pacific.
Built to fill a gap the market left open.
Dallas, Texas · founded to do both halves of the work
Tell us what is in the way.
The first conversation is simple: where the business is stuck, what you have already tried, and what you want your company's next year to look like.