Experts
Expert Consultants Providing Analysis and Strategies to Promote Synergies & Growth
Since 2020, Forza 51's advisory and consulting services have provided investors, boards, and executive leadership teams with strategic analysis and actionable insights. Our expertise focuses on pre-acquisition due diligence—spanning market, operational, and technical assessments—as well as post-acquisition planning to accelerate value creation and maximize portfolio company performance.
Deep Expertise
A. Beth Kensington, MBA
Managing Director, Principal Advisor & Consultant*
Beth Kensington is an experienced consultant and advisor in marketing, sales operations, and technology strategy. She is a growth-focused leader with 20+ years driving digital transformation, CRM/ERP enablement, sales operations, demand generation, and B2B marketing. She has a proven record of building teams, optimizing processes, and delivering scalable strategies that boost revenue, efficiency, and market share.
Results: Value and Transformation
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Transformed sales and marketing operations and enabled new capabilities generating $500M in pipeline and over $3M in bookings in the first year.
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Developed and implemented digital enablement resulting in 40% channel growth for key geographies in six months in marketing and sales operations
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Established demand generation technologies, processes and people capabilities resulting 80% top of funnel increase, 60% middle of funnel increase and 25% bottom of funnel increase in 12 months
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Launched a new venture and generated $600K in revenue the first nine months of operation for a small nonprofit
Steve DeWaters
Executive Advisor & Consultant*
Steve DeWaters is a seasoned technology strategist with cross-sector expertise in advanced manufacturing, systems integration, and market risk analysis. He advises companies and private equity firms on aligning innovation with operational viability, offering specialized insight into both technical execution and market risk assessment. With a focus on technologies like electronics, photonics, miniaturized systems, and real-time data platforms, DeWaters helps investors and operators uncover hidden risks, validate market positioning, and accelerate value creation across pre-investment and post-acquisition stages.
Results: Diligence and Value Creation
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Led validation and commercialization phases for Tier I in vitro diagnostics company to engage multi-year, trilateral relationships/contracts with OEM, contract manufacturers, and specialized opto-electronics partner. Contract value > $20M.
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Expands business capture proficiency with two prime defense contractors, during a highly complex facility shutdown and program transfers with a combined portfolio > $100M.
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Launches start-up marketing campaign for material science venture with strategic, institutional, and private equity firms to develop first round capital investment of $10M.
Scott Hicar
CIO, Advisor, Consultant
Scott Hicar is an experienced Chief Information Technology Executive with a proven track record of execution across companies with complex products in the electronics manufacturing industry. He is an accomplished technology leader in large companies and high-growth Private Equity environments. He is a fast learner capable of understanding strategic business direction and delivering the necessary team to yield exceptional results that drive value.
Scott Hicar has served Benchmark Electronics as the Senior Vice President of Business Process and CIO. In this role, he has global responsibility for ensuring consistent processes, systems and infrastructure efficiently support our business and our customers globally. He has more than 25 years of Technology Leadership experience in transformational roles. Prior to Benchmark Scott was CIO for TwentyEighty, a corporate training company focused on sales enablement, leadership, program execution and credit performance. He has served as Senior Vice President and CIO for DigitalGlobe, Senior Vice President and CIO at Solectron Corporation, and Chief Information Officer and Vice-President of Worldwide IT at Maxtor. He has held management positions in the Supply Chain/ERP practice at Price Waterhouse, as well as serving as an internal consultant within ICI Americas.
Scott has been featured on CIO Talk Network, in Heller Search, and has won an ORBIE Award by Arizona CIO.
Vince Ostrosky
Executive, Advisor, Consultant
Vince Ostrosky is a technology, software, and services senior leader and independent board director who is expert at transforming business operations of public and privately held companies. Blue chip underpinning earned at Price Waterhouse, IBM, Hewlett Packard, JP Morgan, Blackstone, Tenet Health in senior posts with global P&L responsibility ranging up to $1.1B. Vince has served in interim operating executive roles across several M&A Merger Integrations and Carve-outs. He has repeat performances for quickly learning a new business, developing vision and growth strategy, mapping operational transformation priorities, and building high performing teams. He has a reputation for re-architecting business operating models, accelerating growth, leveraging global talent aligning, mentoring and grooming management teams, several have followed him to subsequent engagements.
Strong PE Operating Executive and Business Transformation interests. Active with several Boards in Advisory and Director roles.
M&A Executive responsible for business integration transforming the operating model (people, process, systems and data) for IBM (Lenovo, PWC), HP (EDS) and in private-equity: JPMorgan, Willis-Stein, Blackstone, Marlin (NCO Financial, APAC, Kaplan, Cloudreach, GETIX Health).
Vince Baranauskas, PhD
CTO, Advisor, Consultant
Vince Baranauskas, PhD, has over 20-years of experience with federal R&D grant writing and strategic collaborative teaming that resulted in funding from various funding agencies including DARPA, the Department of Energy, the Environmental Protection Agency, Army, Navy, Air Force, the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, the U.S. Special Operations Command, the U.S. Department of Transportation, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, the Defense Logistics Agency, and the Missile Defense Agency.
Vince has created inventive intellectual property that has generated over $20 million in funding revenue through the creation and leadership of diverse, innovative, and interdisciplinary teams focused on obtaining and sustaining highly competitive R&D programs. Vince's focus is on the creation, analysis, optimization, scale-up, and commercial transition of novel multi-functional polymeric materials and composites molecularly engineered for numerous unique military and civilian applications.
Gary Self
Senior Infrastructure Engineer, Advisor, Consultant
Gary Self is a Senior Infrastructure Engineer adept at leading large-scale infrastructure projects, including ESXi and vCenter upgrades, datacenter consolidation, and deployment of Site Recovery Manager (SRM) for business continuity. Proficient in VMware, PowerShell scripting, IDRAC management, SAN configurations, and vSphere replication. A results-driven professional with a focus on maximizing operational efficiency and reducing costs through infrastructure optimization and technical excellence. Possesses Top Secret Clearance.