Nick Cromydas Investor, Advisor, Builder at New Coast Ventures

Over 30 years of experience providing leadership in large, high growth and entrepreneurial organizations. Extensive experience in advising companies on market, leadership, funding, commercialization and growth strategies.

Strategy Consultant, Business Development, Entrepreneur * Track record of business development, leadership and team building. * Successfully turned around branding and marketing for struggling medical university. * Developed strategy and financial modeling for a $1.5 billion investment fund in the Gulf. * Developed strategy and financial modeling for a $300 million micro-finance bank. * Provided strategy, research and modeling for IEEE the world’s largest technical organization- tasked to help develop new products that increase revenue by $100 million (including M&A). * Experience managing multi-million dollar R&D budget - with goal of developing new products, enhancing portfolio of products, vendor management and collecting reports and expenses from senior product managers. Uncovered over $200k in redundancies. * Created commercial finance brokerage at age 24 and advised in over $200 million in commercial financing products and strategies. * Experience presenting to and advising C-levels, Boards, HNWI's and large audiences.

Ben Lamorte coaches business leaders focused on defining and making measurable progress on their most important goals. Building off his success helping 100s of managers draft and refine their team's Objectives and Key Results (OKRs), he founded OKRs.com. Clients include PayPal, Sears, Zalando, eBay, Cisco, Dun & Bradstreet, and GoNoodle. In 2016, Lamorte co-authored Objectives and Key Results, published by Wiley and his next book, The OKRs Fieldbook, is slated for publication in 2020. Ben holds a graduate degree in Management Science & Engineering from Stanford University and has 15 years of experience as a management consultant, sales and marketing executive, and financial modeler.