Growth River Client Interviews
Steve Sun, CEO, GENEWIZ
Evolution is a Discipline: In 1999, armed with a PhD and post-doc training in life sciences, an idea, and no previous work experience outside of academia, Dr. Steve Sun partnered with his fellow biochemist, Dr. Amy Liao, to form GENEWIZ in a 300 square foot lab. Now GENEWIZ is the leading player in the global DNA sequencing industry.
"When I think about the early coaching days from Growth River, it was a lot of focus on my own growth. This was my first job. I was a naïve entrepreneur with zero experience in management. That coaching period was a foundation. Later on, coaching evolved to focus on execution, meaning identifying constraints and working on them."
~ Steve Sun, CEO
GENEWIZ
Alex Hunter, CEO, Ethos Partners
Alex Hunter is CEO of Ethos Partners, and has more than 22 years of healthcare experience working on physician compensation planning, business strategy, medical staff development, and market development. He has led projects for some of the largest hospital and physician groups in the country.
“It made it possible to identify the constraints across multiple levels, multiple businesses, and multiple areas of the country, allowing us to leapfrog from a $4m to a $40m company very quickly. The best money we've ever spent.”
~ Marty Rosenberg, Founder
Ethos Partners
Randy Jordan, CEO, HOPE Worldwide
Randy Jordan is CEO of Hope worldwide, an international charity based in Wayne, Pennsylvania. Randy elected to leave a partnership with a Washington, D.C.–based health care specialty law firm to begin his career of service to the poor and needy. After ten years serving in different roles in the organization, he was appointed CEO.
"Growth River has allowed us to look beyond the next day, while not forgetting our immediate needs of the organization."
~Randy Jordan, Board ChairHope Worldwide
Video Testimonials
Philadelphia Youth Network: Video interview with former and current CEOs Laura Shubilla and Stacy Holland, 5:07 min
“Of all the strategic planning work I’ve done in my career, this work was the most real, the most influential, and most changed how I thought about my organization and about my leadership.”
~ Laura Shubilla, PhD, co-CEO
Philadelphia Youth Network
Hope Worldwide: Video interview with Board Chair Andy Blocker and CEO Randy Jordan, 5:10 min
“It’s revolutionized how we go after things.”
~Randy Jordan, Board Chair
Hope Worldwide
Ethos Partners: Video interview with founding partner, Marty Rosenberg, 4:50 min
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Philadelphia Youth Network
An interview with former and current CEOs Laura Shubilla and Stacy Holland, 5:07 min
Hope Worldwide
An interview with Board Chair Andy Blocker and CEO Randy Jordan, 5:10 min
Ethos Partners
An interview with founding partner Marty Rosenberg, 4:50 min
Firefly
Genewiz
Growth River Clients
Other Organizations Growth River consultants have worked with
Bristol-Myers Squibb
BNY Mellon
Chase Bank
Coca-Cola Company
Corning
Cox Enterprises
Cox Communications
DuPont
Hallmark International
Instinet
Johnson & Johnson
Kennesaw State University
Merck
Motorola
NJ Centre of Technology Innovation
Panasonic Automotive
PatientsLikeMe
Pearl River Chocolates & Pastries
Pearson Education
PlayCore
PNC Bank
Philadelphia Youth Network
Prentice Hall
PSE&G
Quest Diagnostics
Results Physiotherapy
Sarnoff Corporation
Seagate
Soylent
Stones Throw
Welson Pharmaceuticals