ABOUT US
Catapult Growth Partners is a corporate growth advisory firm empowering its innovative clients through proprietary methodologies and programs for strategy alignment, business development, and transaction (buy side) services in the small- and mid-market US GovCon ecosystem. CGP works to help clients bring leading-edge services and technology to the United States Federal Government and its strategic missions.
CGP partners with clients to accelerate revenue growth and maximize
enterprise value. Our focus is in the dramatically underserved market of
innovative small- and mid-market government contractors seeking
pragmatic and actionable solutions to achieve next-level growth.
OUR TEAM
Mark has held Management and Executive level positions with General Electric, PricewaterhouseCoopers and IBM. As a VP at IBM, Mark led a $300+M Federal practice, then started Catapult Growth Partners (formerly 3A Broker Services) in 2010. Since that time Mark has helped clients small and large accelerate their revenue growth across the Federal market.
Jean Blizzard
PARTNER
Jean is experienced selling software and services across the DoD and Civilian markets. Since joining Catapult Growth Partners Jean has focused on clients with expertise in Acquisition Management, Biometrics and Identity Management, as well as Data Management, Enterprise Solutions and Cloud Services.
Mike Carucci
PARTNER
Michael is a Naval Academy graduate, who has spent his post military career selling software and services for companies like IBM, SAP and CSRA. Since joining Catapult Growth Partners Mike has served both small and large clients seeking to grow their market presence across DoD and Civilian markets.
Fran Vogel
PARTNER
Fran has spent her career in Federal Sales and Business Development. She is highly experienced in full-lifecycle business development from identification through the capture and proposal process. Her primary focus has been in the Federal Civilian Agencies and since joining Catapult Growth Partners, supported clients in the Civilian and DoD Agencies.
Scott Bruce
PARTNER
Scott spent nearly fifteen years at Booz Allen Hamilton where he built a management consulting business for DoD and Civilian clients, and where he was accountable for business development, delivery excellence, thought leadership, and capability and people development. Scott also had executive leadership roles in small and mid-sized government contractor firms where he consistently achieved above-plan results in profit/loss, revenue growth, and customer satisfaction.
Mark Johnson
MANAGING PARTNER
Andy Lieber
PARTNER
Andy has a proven track record of increasing revenue through identifying, qualifying, and capturing opportunities that drive business expansion and increase brand recognition. He is well known in the Federal CIO and CFO communities with connections among executives at VA, GSA, DHS, USDA, HUD, DOC, DOJ, Treasury, EPA, and smaller agencies. Since joining Catapult Growth Partners, he has served clients seeking to grow their businesses in both DoD and Civilian Agencies.
Christina Orticke
PARTNER
Christina is a CPA with extensive experience working with large enterprise energy, financial services, financial and innovative technology both CONUS and OCONUS. She is most passionate about working with small and middle-market businesses, providing a full spectrum of business development services from strategic planning and market penetration assessments to pipeline development and teaming, with growth strategies to include JV's and MP's. Since joining Catapult, she has focused on AI/RPA and cybersecurity platforms, data science and analytics, program management, A&AS, FMS, Acquisition and Financial Management, DEI and contract vehicles such as Oasis, PACTS II and NOVASTAR
Harold has over thirty years of executive-level federal sales experience within diverse and complex technology corporations. Throughout his career, Harold has actively participated in the sales process, with responsibilities ranging from direct sales and channel development to sales management and territory development within corporations like UPS, Arrow Electronics, MicroStrategy and for twenty years with his own company before joining Catapult Growth Partners.
"Arch" retired from the Navy where he held Director and Commander level positions leading hundreds of staff supporting dozens of organizations in the areas of IT, Telecomm and Cyber Security - both CONUS and OCONUS. Arch brings extensive relationships across the Department of Defense. Since joining Catapult Growth Partners, Arch has been focused on the rapidly changing Cyber Security market.
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Herman Archibald
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Frank Scudder
Frank has served in executive-level management, senior business development, and corporate development positions. He has strong experience in business development, strategic partnerships and alliances, acquisition due diligence, strategic planning, P&L, and new market/opportunity identification and penetration. Frank has a long history supporting client pursuits in both Civilian Agencies and across DoD.
