We Help Founders Sell, Scale, and Win

Luke Bivens is a founding Account Executive turned founder who’s spent his career helping early-stage companies go from zero to one. He played key roles at Gatsby (acquired by Netlify) and Workpop (acquired by Cornerstone OnDemand), helping build their go-to-market teams from the ground up through to acquisition.

In 2022, Luke founded QC Growth to help founders figure out go-to-market earlier in their journey — bringing the same scrappy, strategic energy that defined his AE days to startup GTM consulting.

Outside of work, Luke is passionate about fitness (currently competing in Hyrox), enjoys tequila and wine, and prioritizes time with his family — including his two kids and wonderful wife. He founded QC Growth not only to help startups succeed but also to create a life with balance between family, work, and wellness.

Luke is a graduate of Northwood University, where he also played baseball.

Former professional baseball player turned GTM operator. I started my career in early-stage sales, working directly with customers across sales and success. After managing large client relationships and closing deals with some of the biggest brands in the world, I shifted focus to the systems behind growth. Today, I run operations at QC helping clients bridge the gap from idea to execution. Jake's background in sales keeps our processes grounded in what actually drives revenue and scale.

Aron is a Marketing Partner at QC Growth, guiding strategic accounts and developing services to maximize pipeline for clients.

A career-long digital marketer with deep experience in product-led sales and ABM for B2B SaaS. Since 2015, he's lived at the intersection of generative AI and developer tools.

While in-house, Aron was the foundational growth/demand hire at MightyAI (acquired by Uber), Gatsby (acquired by Netlify), and OctoAI (acquired by NVIDIA). His work at QC Growth helps guide clients towards similarly successful exits.

Nick is a GTM professional that has been working alongside early stage companies for the past decade to accelerate growth. He believes that we’re at inflection point in the world today for how to scale companies. A combination of empathy, strategy and technology are needed for organizations to build a sustainable growth engine. Outside of QC, Nick and his wife started a private microschool to help solve the education problem in America.

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Sam Cartwright is managing partner and GTM leader at QC Growth, where he helps early-stage startups build repeatable go-to-market systems from the ground up.

Over the last couple of years, he has played a key role in guiding founders from idea to $1M+ in ARR, embedding directly into teams to shape their sales motion, aggressively build pipeline, and accelerate early revenue.

Prior to QC Growth, Sam was the Founding GTM Leader at Rally, where he built sales from zero to their $1M in ARR. He has been a multi-time President's Club member, a sales enablement leader, and was the founding SDR at Apollo.io.

Beyond his work with founders, Sam channels his competitive energy into running and writing. He publishes Morning Sports Trivia, a daily newsletter featuring one topical sports trivia question each morning, and is a graduate of Middlebury College, where he studied Creative Writing and was an All-American in track and cross country.

Kori Bivens is QC Growth's Healthcare GTM Leader, bringing over a decade of experience driving growth for digital health companies. Kori spent the past 10+ years at Red Ventures and RVO Health, where her journey in health began after the company acquired Healthline.com — one of the leading consumer health media properties in the country. From there, she built deep expertise across the full healthcare ecosystem, including a joint venture with Optum and running multiple technology services businesses on both the provider and health plan sides.

Throughout her tenure, Kori held progressive leadership roles culminating in Vice President, where she carried multi-year P&L responsibility and led growth through performance marketing, product development strategy, and operational execution across more than a dozen businesses.

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Kori is a proud Michigan State University alumna, where she was a standout volleyball player, 2x Big Ten Defensive POY, 3x AVCA All-American, and was inducted into the MSU Athletic Hall of Fame in 2025. Outside of work, she is passionate about health and fitness and loves spending time with her husband and two kids.

Ben has been running GTM strategy games & execution for small teams his whole career, first with years as a theater producer, ending that chapter on Broadway, and now in technology since the 2010s where he's been having a blast collaborating with founders and C-suite leaders to solve outbound problems.

Shane O'Connor is a GTM leader with 5+ years building developer-first go-to-market engines for API and infrastructure companies. He's led enterprise growth at Scalar, Tyk, and SmartBear - closing 6-figure deals with technical buyers, ranking as a top AE globally, and contributing to a 10x ARR run at Scalar as its founding commercial hire.

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At QC Growth, Shane works directly with early-stage dev tool founders - helping them get visible where it matters, make the right noise in the right communities, and build GTM that respects how developers actually buy.

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His philosophy: the best product shouldn't be the best-kept secret. Inferior products beat superior ones all the time - not because they're better, but because they're louder and they show up in the right places. Shane's job is to fix that.

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Outside of work, Shane is based in Cork, Ireland. When he's not busy pretending to be a dinosaur or wrestling with his two boys - he's watching The Pitt, Peep Show with his fiancee Hazel or running his monthly meet-up for dads called "Lads2Dads".

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Will played Division I baseball for two years at Arizona State University before transferring to the University of Michigan, where he played for another two years and graduated. He brings a competitive mindset and team-first approach from the field into his work in growth and partnerships at QC Growth.

GTM Engineer @ QC Growth & industry certified cybersecurity pro. I bridge the gap between strategy and execution by building, automating, and scaling the technical systems that power sales, marketing, and customer success teams.

Keith brings a unique combination of elite sales performance and recruiting expertise to QC Growth. As the founder of Battle Tested Sales, he's helped seed through Series B startups build their foundational GTM teams, with a proven track record of placing top sales talent at high growth companies.Keith's recruiting approach is informed by his own success as a top performing sales rep. This firsthand experience allows him to identify the traits that separate A players from the rest. Keith specializes in helping founders make their most critical early GTM hires, roles where getting it right can accelerate growth and getting it wrong can cost months of momentum.Outside of building teams, Keith and his wife are passionate about rescue animals, hiking, and hunting for sea glass along their local beaches. They prioritize family time with their son, and are thrilled to finally have a Patriots team worth rooting for again after a few rough years.

Mariam has spent ten years figuring out why some companies grow and others stall. Founders are, on the whole, excellent at selling things, they have to be, they get lots of people to give them money for imaginary value. What they are considerably less excellent at is building the kind of infrastructure that means they don’t have to do all the selling themselves forever. This is where Mariam comes in.

She was COO at Claned, a Finnish EdTech company, where she scaled revenue, closed major partnerships, and through a sequence of events that would be implausible in a novel, attended The Commonwealth Service at Westminster Abbey in the presence of Her Late Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, received a royal invitation to the Queen’s Commonwealth Essay Competition Awards Reception at Buckingham Palace in the presence of HRH The Duchess of Cornwall (now HM Queen Camilla), and gave a speech at the UN in Geneva alongside the current President of Finland, Alexander Stubb. Whether this is the normal career path for someone who now spends a lot of time configuring Clay workflows is a question best left unexamined.

She later founded Thindo Labs, a GTM operator for Deeptech and SaaS startups in Finland. Outside of work she reads a lot of books, buys too many books, and spends way too much time people watching.