Long term CEO Collective Member and Strategic Ascent client, Brian O'Donnell joins our team focused on improving the overall program value of our CEO Collective Program.

Brian has over eight years of operating experience as CEO of A.W. Chesterton Company, which he joined in 1996 where he played many roles, helping to drive profitability and re-position the company for future growth.

As a valued member of the Katahdin Group’s CEO Collective for eight years, Brian has been exposed to multiple companies, CEOs and business issues through our program. Brian has been on a number of private company and PE backed Boards helping to significantly scale them. The private equity owner after helping increase the value of the business from $38 million to $85 million in five years, and a private company has gone from $185 million to $400 million in the last four years. Brian's experience scaling companies, playing multiple functional roles, and with the Collective as a valued member, clearly make him a tremendous asset to our team.

Brian is a graduate of Harvard Business School and the D'Amore-McKim School of Business at Northeastern University.