What We Do
End-to-end technology, operational, and digital experience and expertise
Investors and executives trust us to provide the precise blend of support, experience and insight to achieve success in start-up, transformation, reorganization, growth and exit.
ADVISE & COACH
We give you the insights, advice and support to boost executive success or improve your team’s ability to produce, compete and excel.
TRANSFORM & REALIGN
Our team has helped hundreds of companies make adjustments while minimizing disruption and capitalizing on timely opportunities.
OPERATE & AUGMENT
We provide temporary help while you recruit, train and expand. Our talented team members fill special needs and cover extended absences; and provide the expertise you need to make the right hiring choices, effectively onboard team members, and implement plans.
INNOVATE & CREATE
Our team of experienced strategic and entrepreneurial experts enables your leadership to quickly execute on new concepts, realign operations to the existing vision or create pathways to a reimagined vision.
How We Engage
Seamless Integration with Your Existing Team
Ripple Group’s proprietary processes, experienced team and proven methodologies empower you to achieve goals faster with less interference and lower spend.INVENTORY, AUDIT & RECOMMENDATIONS
Before you execute a plan to go where you need to be you need to know where you are. Equipped with our rich operating experience, we come in for days—not weeks or months—to assess your situation and develop a plan of action.
STRATEGIC PLANS
With audits and recommendations in hand, we work with you on a strategic approach to attack your goals and create a plan that helps assure success for operations and M&A work, and more.
ROADMAPS
It's time to get tactical. The best strategies and plans mean nothing if you don’t take things down to the next level so your team can effectively execute. We deliver clean processes and steps to improve operations.
EXECUTION TEAMS
Do you need us to jump in and augment staff or help your team execute on roadmaps, plans and projects? We LOVE execution...there is nothing like rolling up our sleeves and getting our hands dirty.
INTERIM & FRACTIONAL ROLES
We're your team in the cloud, providing interim and fractional executive services, such as CDO, COO and CTO, while we stabilize your situation and help determine and deliver your long-term staff needs.
EXECUTIVE OFFSITES & BOOTCAMPS
Need to bring executives together for 2 - 3 days to really dig in on strategy top to bottom? We design sensible, high-impact working retreats, and offer similar strategy and skills training opportunities for staff, too.
Competencies
Hands-On Operating Experience
OPERATIONS & PROCESS
PEOPLE & RESOURCES
BUDGETING & FUNDRAISING
TECHNOLOGY & PRODUCT
CONTENT & EDITORIAL
AUDIENCE & MONETIZATION
DATA
METRICS & ANALYTICS
HANDS ON DIGITAL, OPERATIONAL & STRATEGIC EXPERTISE
Clients | Past Experience
20+ Years and 200+ Companies Later
Team
Hands on digital, operational and strategic expertise
R. Allen Wyke
FOUNDER & CEO
Cara Mae Melton
PRINCIPAL
Phil Kearney
PARTNER
Margot Carmichael Lester
PARTNER
Philip Barber
Technology Specialist
