About Us

Led by Media and Tech Industry leader Peter Newton, we bring in talented subject matter experts with deep experience to help achieve your goals. Our wide network and team members allow us to scale to manage projects both large and small, and offer you the deepest experience that will drive results.

Peter Newton, President & Founder

Skills & Expertise:

  • Deep experience in media with wide professional network
  • Scaling Growth Companies
  • Leadership
  • Strategic Planning
  • Digital Marketing & Media
  • SAAS
  • Consumer Data
  • Digital Transformation
  • Acquisitions
  • Sales Management

Accomplishments

  • Led 10,000-employee, $1.8B company operations, with direct oversight of 400+ newspapers and websites, separate $100M B-to-B trade pub division, with centralized Sales and IT functions
  • Built Propel Marketing (re-branded as ThriveHive) digital marketing business from $1M in 2012 to $80M+ in 2018.
  • Developed proprietary SAAS platforms, including customer analytics dashboard, responsive design website-building platform and self-serve.
  • Orchestrated new cloud-based IT Services strategy for SMB’s, which led to acquiring two cloud services brokerages in 2016, two more in 2017, and 2 more in 2018.
  • Oversaw largest revenue streams for $1.5B Company, including 1,000-person salesforce across dozens of markets in US.
  • Achieved best year-over-year revenue performance of peer newspaper companies for 3 consecutive years
  • Developed new consumer data strategy on which to build new businesses
  • Created Health & Wellness vertical strategy for Boston.com and Boston Globe.
  • Led largest business segment of Monster North America, with 400+ salespeople and $300M+ annual revenue, including sales, marketing, service, pricing and product strategy and business plan execution.

Professional Experience

  • Big Rock Consulting Group, Newburyport, MA

    President and Founder, 2010 – 2012, 2019

  • GateHouse Media, Quincy, MA

    COO, 2018 – 2019

  • UpCurve, Quincy, MA

    CEO, 2012 – 2018

  • GateHouse Media, Quincy, MA

    Chief Revenue Officer, 2016 – 2018

  • Helium, Andover, MA

    Vice President, 2008 – 2010

  • Monster.com, Maynard, MA

    Senior Vice President/GM, SMB and Strategic Alliances 2005– 2008

  • Boston Globe, Boston, MA

    Vice President, Sales, 1998 – 2005
    President, BostonWorks, 2001-2004

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