Who we are
We've lived the founder journey.
The foundation of our credibility is simple: all four founding partners have built, operated, grown, and in many cases exited businesses themselves. We've sat in your chair.
Built
Companies from the first customer and the first hire.
Operated
Complex organizations through real growth and real pressure.
Grown
Revenue, teams, and enterprise value.
Endured
Wrong hires, setbacks, and the loneliness of the founder's chair.
Exited
Through sales, transitions, and recapitalizations.
Returned
To work beside other founders — with earlier perspective.
Dr. Lance Knaub
Founding Partner
Co-founder of AJC and founder of Denali Consulting. Built Breakthru Physical Therapy + Fitness from a single location into a self-managing, multi-site company with 50+ employees, then exited through private equity — staying on to coach the team to an additional 4–5x return. Creator of the JOLT framework and Amazon bestselling author of The 4% Break-Thru. Leads on rainmaking, strategy, and demand creation.
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Kurt Rewa
Founding Partner
Operator, entrepreneur, and systems-builder with 20+ years building, scaling, and exiting service businesses across logistics, fulfillment, and operations-heavy industries. Brings structure to growing companies — improving systems, clarifying accountability, and reducing day-to-day operational friction.
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Eric Vesotsky
Founding Partner
Serial entrepreneur with three exits. Specializes in go-to-market strategy, M&A integration, and building the leadership teams that let founders step into the CEO role — not just play it.
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Jim Farrell
Founding Partner
The institutional finance mind among founder-operators. As an experienced CFO, Jim has owned the capital structure, investor reporting, and cash discipline behind multiple growth portfolios. At Deloitte he sold and led M&A finance-integration programs for Fortune 10–500 companies; at Comcast, he led a holistic competitive response program that grew market share by up to 8 points in the nation's most contested markets. At AJC he leads diligence, deal structuring, and capital strategy — the rigor that makes a deal bankable and maximizes a business owner's position.
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Companies the partners have built, operated, and exited.
Client Success
Proof, in the partners' words — coming soon.
We're preparing a set of real client success stories and case studies. We publish results only when they're real and cleared to share.
Where are you in your growth journey?
The Growth Beyond the Founder Assessment takes about five minutes and gives you a clear read on four dimensions of your business — whether or not we end up working together.
Joy in the journey.