Our Credentials
Over the past twenty-five years Cullen Coates has held senior positions in both large and small companies. He has worked extensively both in management and consulting with domestic companies and with overseas companies migrating to the US.
His breadth of substantive, hands-on operating experience uniquely qualifies him to provide careful, strategic advice and implementation guidance to Chief Executives.
Cullen has extensive experience with the challenges of building companies. He has worked with more than twenty companies in as many industry sectors as well as various non-profit organizations.
He has worked with startups and Fortune 100 companies – helping them manage through growth and restructuring as well as driving strategic execution management down through the enterprise.
His positions have included Chairman, CEO, President & COO, Director, CEO advisor, investment banker, and founding partner of an early stage venture fund.
Cullen displays an intuitive understanding of the strategic challenges of widely varying types of companies – formulating and implementing successful solutions to the challenges facing the CEO and management team.
Career Highlights
- Founding President & COO of QuickResponse Services, one of the first online B2B catalog and exchange companies. Cullen built the strategic direction and infrastructure to overtake a Fortune 500 competitor and achieve a committed revenue rate of $42 million.
- President & COO of Equinox Retail Software, a pioneering enterprise software firm. Cullen established and achieved industry-recognized top-rank market position for the company in two years from market entry.
- Successfully managed troubled companies to refocus strategy, restructure operations, and arrange creative new funding for systematic and orderly workout of their business affairs.
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What Our Clients Say
“Cullen worked with me when my top priorities were building and managing a fast-growing business. His immense value to the Company was that he calmly reviewed the big picture, helped define the right strategies and tactics, then rolled up his sleeves to ensure success. Cullen helps you focus on a realistic approach to strategy and encourages you to push that extra mile in execution.“ Alex Smith, CEO, Shimmera Pty Ltd
www.abelissimo.com.au
"I am a successful entrepeneur with 35 years of executive search experience. I have experienced the work of a a wide variety of consultants over my years as a business leader and owner. With unqualified enthusiasm, I recommend Cullen Coates in the role of high level Strategy Consultant. The unique strength of Cullen's work is his ability to inspire great vision as well as the execution of vision among those of us who love to vision and sometimes forget to organize the details of the great plan.
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