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Practitioners, builders, and scientists

Decades of combined experience scaling enterprise technology, financial services, and venture platforms.

Growth Loop Advisors was founded on a simple premise: commercial strategy is useless if it cannot be executed by frontline teams. We are not career consultants who deliver slide decks from an ivory tower. We are former operators, founders, Chief Revenue Officers, behavioral scientists, and product leaders who have built and scaled high-growth enterprises in highly regulated, complex markets.

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Ganesh Shenbagaraman

Founder & Managing Partner

Commercial systems · GTM architecture · Product strategy

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Ganesh is a senior technology and product executive specializing in go-to-market architecture, multi-conversation attribution engines, and enterprise software scaling. With extensive experience across venture-backed startups and complex technology enterprises, he advises executive teams on building evidence-based commercial systems, accelerating pilot-to-production conversion, and aligning product strategy with scalable revenue models.

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Ken Meyer

Partner

Revenue operations · Commercial leadership · Sales enablement

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Ken is an experienced commercial executive who has led large-scale revenue organizations across enterprise software and financial services. He works directly with CEOs, CROs, and sales managers to build disciplined forecasting rhythms, design high-productivity territory models, and embed repeatable selling behaviors across frontline teams.

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Matthew E. May

Senior Partner & Advisor

Lean operations · Design thinking · Innovation strategy

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Matt is an internationally recognized expert on lean operations, design thinking, and business innovation. A former advisor to Toyota and author of five acclaimed books, including The Elegant Solution, Winning the Brain Game, and What a Unicorn Knows, Matt specializes in helping leadership teams eliminate operational waste, frame complex business challenges, and design lean growth experiments.

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Dr. Constanze Coelsch-Foisner

Senior Advisor

Behavioral science · Organizational psychology · Executive decision-making

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Dr. Coelsch-Foisner is an organizational psychologist and behavioral scientist specializing in executive decision architecture, cognitive biases in leadership, and commercial change management. She works with executive teams to design high-trust communication frameworks and ensure organizational readiness during high-stakes commercial transformations.

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Azriel Chelst

Advisor

Financial services · Strategic partnerships · Venture incubation

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Azriel is a strategy, innovation, and commercial leader with more than 20 years of experience building products, partnerships, and new businesses across financial services, payments, and enterprise technology. Currently serving as Head of Commercial at venture-backed AI startup While.ai, his background spans leadership roles at FIS, Barclays, Mastercard, American Express, and Anheuser-Busch. Having mentored over 100 startup founders, Azriel combines an investor’s perspective with operational grit to help companies structure scalable partnership channels.

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Alden (Chip) Purrington

Advisor

Product strategy · Commercialization · Venture governance

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Chip is an experienced product strategist and venture advisor who has spent his career helping executives launch new offerings, enter new markets, and build sustainable commercial systems. His background includes product management leadership at Mattel, Disney, and The Quaker Oats Company, alongside innovation leadership at Fidelity Investments and Iron Mountain. As the founder of Federal Street Capital, a private-market broker-dealer, Chip brings an entrepreneur’s and builder’s perspective to capital strategy, market readiness, and commercial execution.

Northern Virginia · East Coast hubSan Francisco, CA · West Coast hubServing enterprise and institutional clients globally.

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