Your advocates

GROWTH EXPERTS is a team of driven, insightful and experienced advocates who are hitting the ground running even before the first day of engagement. As opportunity brokers we know how important it is to unify your customer-facing activities to successfully increase purchases, incentivize partners, and achieve and sustain greater sales and revenue. That is why unlike any other sales development group, each member of our team possesses experience across all three disciplines related to revenue growth: sales, marketing, and business development.

Our clients are amazed at the doors we open for them.


Executive Level or Complex Sales & Business Development

Allan Himmelstein is a business development and sales expert for senior corporate level targets. An entrepreneurial consultant and business coach/facilitator for Sales, Marketing, and General Management, he was a prior executive in corporate firms such as Conagra, Martin Bauer GmbH, and QBI. He has a proven track record in increasing business revenues and profit growth within competitive markets, and has general management experience that includes the start up of the original Rohm and Haas company which grew to $40,000,000 in nine years. He has held a number of C-level positions over the course of 10 years, and after a successful turn around sold a US based firm to ConAgra Foods. Allan is a graduate of the University of Maryland.


Executive Level or Complex Sales & Marketing

With more than 20 years of experience in B2B marketing, Keith Finger helps growing companies reach prospects, communicate their value proposition and increase sales. Keith has held senior marketing roles at Sprint Nextel, Orange Business Services (part of France Telecom) and Glenayre Electronics, and he’s started several businesses of his own. His accomplishments include managing the worldwide product marketing for a $160 million product portfolio. He earned his BA with Honors from Tulane University. A world traveler and avid photographer, his trips have brought him to such places as Iceland, Guam, Russia and Indonesia.


Latin America Market Penetration & Business Development

Robert Phillips is a business development professional for opportunities in South American markets, helping US firms close on opportunities and partnerships related to bio/pharma/medical, travel & leisure, media and online technology. He helped develop several $100MM leisure, entertainment, and tourist projects on behalf of Odebrecht in Brazil. More recently he helped build a leading, full-service, online marketing agency for the Brazilian market, and a leading travel management service for South America. Robert is an American who lives in Brazil, holds an MBA from Thunderbird, and speaks Portuguese and Spanish fluently.


[Principal]

Jonathan Asbell is a business development professional helping firms accelerate and improve their ability to attract, acquire, retain, and develop affinity with their customers. He has held senior roles in media, publishing, online marketing, and technology, and has expertise in marketing, sales, technology, and management. His experience includes developing online businesses for companies owned by VNU, Bertelsmann, and McGraw-Hill, and more recently he built a $30MM per year online ad network in 5 months. A quintessential networker and tenacious achiever, Jonathan has a reputation for making things happen where others fail. He is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, holds an MBA in management, and is fluent in Spanish and Portuguese.

Online Revenue & Marketing

Samantha Hoffnagle is a digital marketing, sales, and business development expert. An online professional intimately familiar with the players, resources, and opportunities on the web, she helps brands achieve the greatest return on their web marketing efforts, and helps publishers achieve the highest revenue and fill rate for their inventory. In 2008 her programs achieved seven-figure gross revenues for corporate and international clients, and she delivered product campaigns that surpassed the marketing objectives of more than 300 CPG brands. She has held senior positions at Publicitas, ABC TV partner LMN, TNS Media Intelligence, is a member of the Direct Marketing Association, and a participant in the Interactive Advertising Board. A native New Yorker Samantha is a photographer and an outdoor enthusiast.


Online Product & Business Development

Lisa Mogull is a digital product and business development expert helping firms build the most compelling features, benefits, partnerships, and revenue opportunities for online offerings. Her accomplishments include building Yahoo! Chat into the worldwide market leader, and generating lucrative business opportunities for social media services like Neighborhood America and Cinelan. With a background that includes two decades in media, television, mobile, and digital technology, Lisa uses her experience to deliver real business growth from online products and services, and to position promising startups for investment. Prior to her time in the digital world Lisa worked on shows such as Good Morning America, Maury, Oprah, and produced a documentary. Ms. Mogull is a graduate of NYU Tisch School of the Arts.