Morgan Hill Partners and University Capital Group Team Up in Strategic Nationwide Partnership
TAMPA, Fla., Feb. 27, 2019 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Morgan Hill Partners, an innovative venture services firm offering startup to scale-up advisory, growth, and investment services to technology companies, today announced a strategic partnership with San Francisco-based University Capital Group (UCG).
Through the strategic partnership with UCG, founded by Seth Wiener and Michael Gonzalez, Morgan Hill Partners enhances its position as a venture services leader, delivering strategy, go-to-market, operations, and investment facilitation services to technology startups and tech-enabled startup businesses, helping them deterministically build, innovate, and accelerate growth.
"Today's announcement with industry leader UCG is another solid step in our journey to build on our foundation in venture services, while significantly expanding Morgan Hill's reach on the West Coast - and becoming a leader in scaling Silicon Valley startups," said Jim Barnish, Morgan Hill Founder and General Partner. "This partnership will help us fully deliver on our startup to scale-up strategy by giving us strong investment facilitation capabilities in Silicon Valley and the rest of the Bay Area."
Based in San Francisco, Wiener will serve as Board Advisor of Morgan Hill Partners. Wiener has more than 23 years of leadership experience at businesses of all sizes, ranging from pre-revenue startups to $10B+ business units at Fortune 50 companies. He worked for an Investment Banking sales team focused on Buy Side transactions while at Morgan Stanley. Additionally, Wiener has co-founded seven startups with four exits prior to founding UCG. He is a current board-member for four private companies and one charitable foundation helping children with learning difficulties. In 2018, Wiener also co-founded a secure on-premises data storage company focused on large enterprise clients.
"It is an honor to partner Morgan Hill - their value-driven playbook, which includes an elastic CXO model providing significant value to clients trying to surpass their next milestone. I am most impressed with the efficiency layer Morgan Hill adds to organizations and the measurable gains to both top and bottom-line revenue metrics." said Wiener. "Founder coaching and executive advisory are critical to the alignment and execution of firms of all sizes and stages. We've seen companies struggle to translate their incredible products and vision into commercial successes. By combining the capabilities of Morgan Hill's strategic planning, product, and revenue creation solutions with UCG's venture services model we can now help startup businesses better focus, innovate, and execute against the areas that will best predict their success."
Morgan Hill's services include Strategy & Planning, Investment Facilitation, Executive Leadership, Product Strategy, and Revenue Creation. By engaging in growth, operations, and investment services, startups can augment and optimize their existing team with seasoned fractional executive talent to fill gaps and provide leadership and execution support in all functional areas (e.g., sales, operations, product, etc.) to scale in the most capital-efficient manner. For more information, contact Morgan Hill Partners today.
ABOUT MORGAN HILL PARTNERS
Launched in 2017 by seasoned entrepreneurs and startup veterans Steven Horwitz, John Lema, and Jim Barnish, Morgan Hill Partners has re-envisioned the traditional management consultancy, pairing seasoned CXO consultants with a proven Path-to-Value Platform, to help its clients predictably and cost-effectively scale and optimize their businesses. The firm works exclusively with tech and tech-enabled companies, ranging from pre-revenue startups in "discovery" stage through PE/venture-backed companies in "scale" stage. With nine offices across the US, Morgan Hill fundamentally changes the way consulting services are delivered, investing a portion of the firm's fees, aligning firm performance with client outcomes. https://www.morganhillpartners.com
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