Award-Winning Founder, Strategist, and Operator

Marissa Spano knows how to build companies and brands that sell. Specializing in running businesses alongside founding teams, her work has influenced millions of people through digital, visual media, and consulting services spanning her career. She has recorded more than $100M in revenue for companies she’s worked with over the past ten years, ranging from startups to VCs. She possesses a winning blend of contrarian thought and research skills that enables her to over-deliver on revenue, growth, expansion, and brand recognition targets. Overall, she is a management consultant and operator who works on strategy and development for launch or growth.

Working on Wall Street as a teenager, she left the industry after surviving 9/11 to make an impact.

Yes, it’s true! In a previous life, Marissa worked on the trading floor as an analyst and polymath syndicate researcher. She left the industry after 5 solid years and combined her business acumen with a desire to help launch companies herself, after surviving 9/11 by minutes.

At 25, Marissa started her first company which she sold just after 2 years at a 12x profit. Since then, she’s been driven to create the same success for entrepreneurs and CEOs who are determined to break through their own barriers, and challenge status quo in their industries.

For decades, she’s run laps around other consultants and agencies with a very specific framework to help accelerate growth, build out brand and sales, and essentially - build businesses from within, at any level.

Rumor has it, she has garnered some awards.

• 1st in Wellness/Health from Asbury Park Press for her wellness concept Blue Moon Yoga, a studio/shop that has been thriving for almost 20 years;

• 2nd from The Ad Club in Cambridge, MA when she won 1st Place for Best Digital/Interactive Campaign at Get Loud! for the Guttmacher Campaign around family planning/women’s health research;

• 3rd from BevNet for her work rebranding and the relaunch of Body Works beverages’s strategy for a Brooklyn Startup Team;

• 4th was in 2016 from Google Start-Up Grind and Marriott International as a runner-up in Best Hospitality Concept for her work at 5 Boro Goods;

• 5th from Techstars 1st Virtual Startup-Weekend as a Top-10 Startup across the US, for her participation on the Parasol team, leading strategy and brand direction for an App to help domestic abuse victims.

• 6th from MIT - SOLVE Lab for admittance into the incubator for a public safety company to address several gaps in communities more vulnerable to assault and violence.

• 7th from City & State New York as a Top Innovator in New York State for her work in the B2G space.