SAN FRANCISCO, April 8, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Growth Street
Partners is excited to announce the hiring of Cheyenne Smith and Michael McMillan as Operations
Associates.
Cheyenne joins Growth Street from Kazoo, a B2B SaaS employee
experience platform and Vista Equity portfolio company. Cheyenne
most recently served as Senior Manager of Demand Marketing at
Kazoo, after several years of content marketing, digital marketing,
and general demand generation experience in the B2B SaaS space.
Michael joins from Vista Consulting Group (VCG), the operations arm
of Vista Equity. Prior to VCG, Michael worked at Bain & Company
as a management consultant. Michael and Cheyenne will work closely
with Ben Tryba, Vice President of
Operations, to help implement and optimize marketing, sales, and
customer success best practices across the portfolio.
"We are excited to announce the addition of Cheyenne and Michael
to the Growth Street team. The operations team works closely with
our founders from industry to increase their execution capacity and
to provide B2B SaaS and technology enabled services best practices
to help them achieve their goals faster and with less risk,"
explained Steve Wolfe and
Nate Grossman, Co-Founders of Growth
Street.
"Working closely with the Growth Street team, we've been able to
reposition and accelerate the company's go-to-market, hire senior
leaders of Marketing and Product Management quickly, and unlock
customer demand," said Marion Lewis,
CEO and Co-Founder of Govenda, a Growth Street portfolio company
that provides a Board governance and relationship management SaaS
platform.
"Combining Growth Street's B2B scaling experience with a
founder's knowledge of their customers and end market is powerful.
Cheyenne and Michael technically work at Growth Street, but they
are truly an extension of Growth Street's portfolio companies,
providing expert-level execution capacity," said Ben Tryba, Vice President of Operations at
Growth Street.
GROWTH STREET PARTNERS
Growth Street Partners provides early growth capital to rapidly
growing SaaS and technology-enabled services companies located in
underserved U.S. markets. The firm partners with founders who have
personally lived through the problems their businesses solve. The
firm has over $200 million under
management. Existing investments include Pear Deck, ChildcareCRM,
Visual Lease, Hotel Effectiveness, Suralink, HR Acuity, and Govenda
(fka BoardBookit). The firm also played a significant role in
ChildcareCRM and Hotel Effectiveness completing add-on acquisitions
of Just Fill Out and LobbyLights, respectively. If you are a
founder from industry looking to scale without losing control, or
are simply interested in more information, please visit
www.growthstreetpartners.com.
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SOURCE Growth Street Partners