Operating Leadership at Key Inflection Points

A player-coach operator working alongside leadership teams, boards, and investors to develop strategy, build brands, and scale the business.

PK Growth Partners steps into interim and fractional CEO, CMO, and CGO roles when organizations face moments of growth, transition, or complexity. Often, a permanent executive isn’t the right solution.

Accelerate your business through experienced leadership, decisive execution, and hands-on partnership.

PK Growth Partners is typically engaged when:

  • Growth has stalled or needs to accelerate

  • The business is scaling faster than leadership capability or capacity

  • A leadership transition, turnaround, or transformation is underway

  • Experienced operating leadership is needed, but a full-time hire isn’t the right solution

WHEN ORGANIZATIONS ENGAGE PK GROWTH PARTNERS

PK Growth Partners is led by Peter Kaye, an entrepreneurial operating leader with a general management perspective, shaped by deep brand-building experience, global company roles, and education at Harvard Business School.

HOW WE ENGAGE

PK Growth Partners operates as a player-coach partner, working alongside leadership teams to clarify priorities, align organizations, and deliver results during critical moments of growth and transition.

As an embedded operator, we develop strategy and lead execution.

PK Growth Partners provides hands-on leadership through:

  • Interim Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Chief Growth Officer (CGO), or Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) roles

  • Fractional executive leadership

  • Targeted operating engagements tied to key inflection points

  • Active partnership with boards and investors

OUR APPROACH

PK Growth Partners combines entrepreneurial leadership with big-company operating discipline.

Our work is shaped by hands-on leadership roles at entrepreneurial organizations such as Honest Tea, Newman’s Own, and No Kid Hungry, and grounded in operating rigor developed at Coca-Cola, Diageo, Danone and Nestlé.

This blend brings a general management perspective to growth, using brand strategy as a central lever to drive demand, margin, and long-term value — while moving quickly and executing with rigor in resource-constrained, high-stakes environments.

SELECTED OPERATING RESULTS

  • Reversed a decade-long decline in a 40-year-old food & beverage portfolio

  • Grew revenue 57% in three years for a previously stagnant organization

  • Doubled sales for a better-for-you B2B ingredient company

  • Doubled brand awareness and increased revenue 58% for a growth-stage beverage brand

  • Increased DTC average order value to a record high (+13%)

  • Led a global brand relaunch to #1 in category across 120 countries

  • Drove +16% volume and double-digit brand preference gains for a legacy brand

CORE WORK

  • Accelerating growth for emerging and growth-stage brands

  • Leading turnaround strategy and execution

  • Building go-to-market strategy and expanding channels

  • Launching new products from pre-revenue through scale

  • Aligning leadership teams and establishing operating cadence

  • Coaching founders and serving as an operating partner

  • Supporting Boards and investors with strategy and execution

WHAT FOUNDERS, CEOs, AND INVESTORS SAY

“PK Growth Partners is an effective way to accelerate growth ahead of a strategic sale, bringing experienced operating leadership without adding a permanent executive.”
— Partner, Leading Private Equity Firm

“Peter delivers. As Interim Chief Growth Officer, he led bold new campaigns that drove strong results in brand awareness, earned media, and sales velocity.”
— David Best, President & CEO, Newman’s Own

“Peter aggressively drove our brand’s growth while keeping tactics and budgets scrappy!”
— Seth Goldman, Co-Founder & CEO, JUST Ice Tea; Co-Founder, Honest Tea

WHO WE WORK WITH

  • Founder-led and private equity-backed businesses and brands

  • Leadership teams, boards, and investors navigating growth, transition, and transformation

  • Mission-driven organizations — both for-profit and nonprofit — where performance and purpose intersect

WHEN TO GET IN TOUCH

If you’re facing a moment of inflection and need experienced operating leadership, let’s talk.

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