About
Jane Gentry helps mid-market CEOs whose companies have outgrown the way they operate.
Jane Gentry
Jane Gentry is a strategic operating model advisor and former CEO who ran two private-equity-backed companies. An operator by background, she works with mid-market CEOs at companies between $20M and $800M in revenue. She redesigns org structure, decision rights, and workflows when revenue grows faster than the business was built to run.
She works on the invisible failure point in growth, and she has spent 30 years watching the same progression. A company built to run at one size pushes into the next, and suddenly the CEO is the approval layer for everything, the org chart stops matching the work, and the best people start quietly doing two jobs.
Jane knows that film firsthand. She carried the P&L and lived the reality of a board demanding growth while the operating model was already cracking. Today she helps leadership teams rebuild how the business runs: roles that are clear, decisions that are fast, and an operating rhythm that sticks. Execution gets sharper without burning out the talent you cannot replace.
Unlike consultants who deliver decks and disappear, or fractional executives who become permanent overhead, Jane co-designs the solution and stays close through implementation, exiting when it works without her. Her clients include dozens of founder-led and PE-backed mid-market companies, as well as The Home Depot, Coca-Cola, Mercedes-Benz, Philips, Stryker, and GSK.
The Team
Jane Gentry leads every engagement herself and stays in the business through implementation. When the work calls for depth outside her own, such as exit readiness, data infrastructure, or go-to-market, she brings in one of these people for that specific scope. You are never handed to someone junior, and you never inherit permanent overhead.
Pat Alacqua
Pat co-founded Nth Degree and scaled it into a premier services company in the tradeshow industry — earning an industry Hall of Fame induction for the operating innovations he built along the way. He’s been through the full company lifecycle: startup, rapid growth, turnaround, and exit. His specialty is helping CEOs build operational blueprints that actually survive implementation — and preparing companies to be sale-ready so owners can exit on their terms, not someone else’s timeline.
Abhi Golhar
Founder and Managing Partner of Meridian 84, a private investment and operating advisory firm focused on lower middle market, tech-enabled businesses. Abhi has built and scaled multiple platforms himself — growing NPHub from $100K to $10M in revenue through standardized workflows and operational systems, and architecting the technology infrastructure that supported a specialty finance lender’s growth from $185M to $1B in originations. His focus at Meridian 84 is designing the operating systems, digital infrastructure, and KPI frameworks that prepare companies for scale and exit — increasing margins without adding headcount.
Peter O'Sullivan
Founder of HighBeam Analytics, a business intelligence-as-a-service firm that helps product companies use AI-powered analytics to increase profits, improve cash flow, and make faster, smarter decisions. A former Fortune 500 executive turned turnaround consultant and now fractional Chief Data Officer, Peter specializes in building predictive analytics and decision systems for manufacturers, distributors, and eCommerce brands under $200M in revenue. He is the inventor of InsightQ™, a predictive business intelligence application that plugs into ERP and related systems to surface unit economics, inventory, and customer performance in dashboards executives can act on immediately. UCLA undergrad, Santa Clara MBA, Six Sigma Black Belt, patent in data synchronization.
Randy Walton
25+ years helping mid-market CEOs build market strategies that actually drive profit — not just revenue. Randy’s core expertise is helping leadership teams think through second and third-order consequences before they commit resources. He’s worked extensively with senior executives across North America and Western Europe on operations, go-to-market strategy, and organizational leadership. He’s also a Certified Exit Planner — which means he understands what a business needs to look like on the other side of a transaction.