Meet the Minds Behind QC

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

A growth executive focused on partner programs, presales, and strategic enablement. A very diverse career..  I started out as a developer for the Air Force and then NASA Goddard, giving me solid technical roots. I then spent many years in sales for regional SIs / Agencies. Co-founded a Venture Technology practice working with Entrepreneurs and early-stage companies in the NVa / DC market.

Later, I transitioned to direct sales for enterprise B2B software. This combination helped me understand both sides of the ISV / Service Provider dynamic.

My more formal Partnerships career began in 2010 while I was still in direct sales at Sitecore. There I learned a lot about partnerships from my VP and mentor Jason Crea.

As a Sales Director at Sitecore, we recruited, enabled, and managed our own ecosystem that was expecting to drive ~50% of our target revenue from them.  Jason built a Partner-led GTM strategy before that was a thing.

For more than 10 years since, I've been working with early stage companies to build partner programs, ecosystems and enablement capabilities.

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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.