Who We Are
At Growth Orbit, we understand that achieving consistent, scalable revenue growth is a challenge for your business. That’s why we’ve developed a platform that brings together the best of people, processes, and technology. Our approach begins with helping companies understand their total market potential. This knowledge allows us to connect with the right prospects at the ideal time, leading to more deals and enabling you to concentrate on growing your business and succeeding.
So, who are we? Growth Orbit is your go-to partner for accelerating growth. Our mission is to create real value by implementing growth strategies that actually work. We’re experts in combining solid growth strategies with effective sales techniques, all backed up by the latest technology. Our goal is to see our clients achieve rapid, significant growth.
We specialize in crafting compelling sales messages based on insightful analysis and filling your pipeline with leads that are ready to convert. Our success is built on understanding our clients’ unique positions and guiding them to new heights of success. Join us in reaching what we call the Growth Orbit!
Steve Schilling
Partner
Steve has been leading startups, turnarounds, and high-growth businesses in highly competitive markets for 25+ years. He has been working in “the cloud” since the mid 90s and creating “managed services” offerings even longer. The press and industry analysts have recognized him as an industry visionary, strategist and disruptor. He has twice put companies into Gartner’s Leadership and/or Visionary Magic Quadrant.
Specialties: venture-backed startups, turnarounds, high-growth technology, Software as a Service (SaaS/CaaS), Cloud Services, Telecommunication, Sales Transformation, Sales Enablement, Sales Effectiveness, M&A and perhaps most importantly – creating a culture of accountability! Ask him about it.
Brad Harris
Partner
Brad is an accomplished executive leader with extensive experience directing sales, marketing, and driving overall business growth. Specializing in cybersecurity and start-ups, he has a proven track record across multiple industries.
He has led growth strategies that significantly increased revenues, launched SaaS platforms aligning cybersecurity with business objectives—successfully onboarding initial clients and securing development funding—and delivered transformation programs optimizing people, processes, systems, and technology.
Brad’s leadership consistently enables organizations to achieve critical business metrics and create competitive advantages through technology.
Kimmy Netterville
Principal
Kimmy has worked in the marketing and sales development world for over 20 years. She has extensive experience and proven skill sets in Lead Generation Strategy, Messaging, Market Segmentation strategy, Client Management, Campaign Management, Operations, and Sales Management.
She has personally overseen sales development efforts that have created thousands of leads and billions of dollars in revenue.
She is most excited to help her clients manage and succeed with their sales acceleration projects, keeping them on time, on track, and on budget. Ask her how she does it.
Chris Etter
Principal
Chris started his career as a corporate auditor and completed audits all over the world before getting into sales leadership, general management, and eventually becoming CEO. Chris owned revenue growth for one of the world’s largest corporations for 10 years and then for several start-up organizations, and two companies that he founded and subsequently sold.
Chris’s experience has been concentrated in technology, telecommunications, and healthcare. As Chris reflects on a long and successful career, the one thing he has enjoyed the most is helping interesting people with interesting ideas succeed and grow, ask him about it.
Connor Jordan
Principal
Connor is a seasoned professional with over 20 years of experience in sales and marketing roles that demand expert implementation and execution of lead generation efforts. Specializing in HubSpot implementations and optimization, he helps businesses harness the full potential of this powerful marketing automation platform for lead generation and customer engagement.
With a career focused on B2B technology solutions, Connor excels at bridging the gap between high-tech concepts and effective messaging for non-technical audiences. His expertise includes email marketing, content marketing, social media marketing, branding, logo design, website management, webinar creation and delivery—all centered around maximizing results through HubSpot.
Julie Short
Principal
Julie is a dynamic sales leader with over 20 years of progressively expanded sales management experience. A true student of the game, she is well-versed in a wide variety of sales disciplines and often serves as an interim sales leader. Julie has consistently driven significant new business development, product innovation, and thought leadership across multiple industries.
With extensive experience in TV, media, advertising, and SaaS, she excels in recruiting, training, and coaching sales teams to peak performance while fostering a culture of accountability. Her expertise in demand generation, digital marketing, and revenue growth drives results
Meet Some of Our Talented Team and Alumni
Our team has a wealth of real world sales experience and a track record of over-performing. They are truly our biggest and most valuable asset and we are fortunate they all fit well into our positive, winning culture.
Steven
Sales Development RepSteven has an extensive background in both inside and outside sales. His experience includes coverage of 18 states managing 30 broker reps producing $16MM in annual revenue. He recently worked for a lead generation company focusing on hardware, software, and services opportunities for IBM, Lenovo and their business partners.
Jewryl
Sales Development RepJewryl launched his career as a sales professional and event specialist while serving as activities coordinator for a major university. His 15 years of sales and marketing experience in a global and competitive industry among Fortune 500 companies has developed his diverse skillset and talents. Jewryl has become a great closer in the fields of IT, Telcom, and logistics.
Amy
Sales Development RepAmy brings Growth Orbit nearly 10 years of customer service experience developed within the public safety and medical fields. She graduated Cum Laude with a Bachelor of Science in Psychology from Kennesaw State University and a Master of Education in Workforce Education from The University of Georgia.
Jill
Sales Trainer & CoachSales training expert with 18 years' experience in coaching teams to penetrate emerging markets, implement consultative selling strategies, and consistently exceed sales quotas.
Kyle
Sales Development RepKyle has over 10 years of experience in Outside and Inside Sales. Prior to joining Growth Orbit, he excelled in the role of Inside Sales/Business Acquisition Rep within the telecom and healthcare industries. He excelled at uncovering new opportunities for business growth, setting meetings within the hospital C-Suite and closing $35,000+ contracts.
Shannon
Sales Development RepShannon has a thorough comprehension of how to navigate organizations, engage targeted prospects, understanding customer needs and uncovering pain, and producing quality leads. Shannon’s areas of focus, includes SaaS, PaaS, AI, enterprise data integration, healthcare technology, and large commercial enterprise technology solution.
Curtis
Sales Development RepCurtis brings 20+ years of technology and sales development experience to Growth Orbit in a broad range of software, hardware, applications, and services. His ability to digest and communicate complex solutions has allowed him to prosper in meeting and exceeding desired objectives.
Tim
Sales Development RepTim is a seasoned business development and operations leader, well-versed in telecommunications, SaaS, and Cybersecurity hardware. He offers experience leading and working with startups and larger companies, in consumer, SMB, Mid-Market, and Enterprise sales.
Craig B
Sales Development RepCraig Briscoe holds over 20 years sales experience in coalition with C-suite influencers. His client facing engagement strategies have benefited government procurement, energy, education, and healthcare sectors.
Jack
Sales Development RepJack brings to Growth Orbit more than 30 years of communications, marketing, and sales experience with information and network technology product and service companies ranging from early stage ventures to global market leaders. His understanding of products, markets and business operations enables him to clearly and confidently articulate value propositions to senior-level decision-makers.
Amanda
Sales Development RepAmanda’s focus has been primarily on inside sales and throughout her career she has worked in retail, home security, and restaurant sales. Her strong communication experience and family values led her to work for Palace Entertainment which is the third largest FEC company in the United States. She began there as a Sales Coordinator and in her first year increased sales in her department by 25% and became their Regional Sales and Marketing Manager.
Kurt
Sales Development RepKurt brings 20+ years of inside sales, business development, lead generation and cold calling skills to Growth Orbit. Prior to Growth Orbit, he worked in various industries but most recently in credit risk, competing against big names such as Dun and Bradstreet and Equifax.
Rich
Sales Development RepRich has been a leader in the sales arena for 27 years with extensive knowledge of both inside and outside sales. He has been awarded top performer multiple times while working with various organizations in many different industries, including manufacturing, logistics, hospitality and healthcare.
Ben
Sales Development RepBen excelled in several outside and inside sales roles gaining experience across various industries including logistics and freight, business financing services, legal services, cyber security, and executive lead generation. He also earned company awards such as: National Top Producer, President’s Circle, and Black Belt.
David
Sales Development RepDavid has had experience in retail, outside sales, and inside sales in both an SDR and AE capacity. David has developed a keen understanding of how to navigate conversations, uncover pain, understand customer needs, and produce quality leads. David’s expertise centers around software solutions for the SMB market.
Future Growth Orbit Partner
Interested in joining our team? At Growth Orbit we are obsessed with helping companies accelerate their growth.
We do this by working with our clients to develop practical growth strategies, enhancing and clarifying their messaging, engaging with prospective customers to deliver that messaging, and working relentlessly to turn those engagements first, into qualified leads, and ultimately into delighted customers! We exist to help our clients achieve their growth goals, and when they succeed, we succeed.
Contact us if you want to explore how you can be part of this exciting movement!
