1. Strategy Crowd
Growth Expertise

2. Strategy Crowd
Growth Expertise
• A talent swarm is a team that gathers to focus on a
specific project, collaborates on the solution and then
disbands.
• A laser like focus on execution and minimum overhead
• Strategy Crowd is a talent swarm led by four
experienced leaders with a pedigree in Innovation,
Growth Planning, Business Execution and
Entrepreneurship.
• We help smaller businesses get big, we bring back the
momentum that big businesses had when they were
small.

3. Growth Expertise we bring
• Innovation Management
• Corporate Storytelling
• Sales and Marketing Process
• CXO Coaching and Mentoring
• Connections Domestic and International
• Partnership Management
• Due Diligence
• Leadership and Development training

4. Growth Expertise delivered
• Experts for EI, ILO, OECD, UNCTAD, World Bank and
EBRD
• Raised over €70m in funding for clients
• Advised over 1,000 start ups and mature businesses
• Due Diligence projects completed up to €220m in value
• Communications Effectiveness Workshop for CXO team
• Best selling business author, 125,000 business books
sold
• Founders including SmallBusinessCan, Inhance,

5. Due Diligence
• For Venture Funds and Private Investors
• Deep Dive process to test quality of the team and their plans
• 1st 100 days - Acting as an advisory board to the invested
Management Team we oversee the agreed execution of the
plan presented to the investor
• For investees
• Business Plan Development or Review
• Investment process – a trusted third party to advise from
pitch to term-sheet and on to shareholders agreement and
agreed plan.

6. Growth Planning
• Our work compliments cost-reduction and financial restructuring experts. Strategy Crowd
is not in that space
• We focus on what happens next. When the only route left to drive shareholder value is
growth.
• Here are a few of the clients we want to work with:
• Older companies with ambition but who need to rediscover their earlier
momentum
• Mature companies preparing for an exit who want rapid sustainable growth
• Enterprise clients who want focus on a specific innovation or growth problem
• Funded Early Stage Companies who want to invest in Growth Expertise
• Scaling companies who want to improve their Commercial capability

7. Strategy Crowd
Growth Expertise
• A Talent swarm led by four partners, with a panel of 24+
domain experts
• Focused on creating Shareholder value by driving
Growth
• Providing a range of corporate solutions built on our
expertise mapping out growth strategies
• Working for Ambitious Management Teams and
Investors

8. The Team
• Alan Costello
• Industries - Cleantech, Life Sciences,
Food, Digital
• Competencies - Sales, Marketing,
Innovation, Strategy, Leadership
Development
• B.Sc, MBA, MInstD, MIMCA, CMC
• https://ie.linkedin.com/in/alanjcostello

9. The Team
• Frank Hannigan
• Industries - Software, Media, Internet,
Telecoms
• Competencies - Sales, Marketing,
Innovation, Strategy, Entrepreneurship,
Partnership Strategy
• B.A, MMII, MInstD, MIMCA, CMC,
MEMCC
• https://ie.linkedin.com/in/hanniganfran
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10. The Team
• Ron Immink
• Industries - Banking, Publishing, Digital,
SME
• Competencies - Sales, Marketing,
Innovation, Strategy, Dutch
• B.A Small Business, award winning and
best selling Business Author
• https://ie.linkedin.com/in/ronimmink

11. The Team
• Roddy Feely
• Industries - food, consumer goods, Agri.,
engineering and light manufacturing
• Competencies - Sales, Marketing, Export,
Leadership Development, French and
Dutch
• B.Comm, MIMCA, CMC
• https://ie.linkedin.com/in/roddyfeely