Leadership
Russell Marsh
Chief Portfolio Officer
Leads portfolio strategy, acquisition evaluation, and post-acquisition integration. Has personally interviewed the founder of every current portfolio brand, on average twice.
Career Highlights
- —Industries evaluated: 1,400+
- —Industries acquired: 28
- —Industries declined: undisclosed (extensive)
- —Quarterly reviews led: every quarter since 2021
Subsidiary Board Positions
Cross-portfolio roles held across 25 Specific Industries holdings.
Consumer Goods & Consumables
Pig Milk Creamery
Burt Sloppington III
VP of Pig Relations
Has a way with pigs.
Dehydrated Water Laboratories
Percival Ashcroft
Head of Quality Assurance
Has never once tasted the product.
Inflatable Anchors Marine
Big Mike Portside
VP of Heavy-Duty Operations
Oversees the Heavy Duty Pro line and all warehouse operations.
Snortables
Darren Kowalski
Head of Pulverization Sciences
Darren oversees all pulverization operations at Snortables, including the NasalMill™, three industrial wood chippers, and a blender he brought from home.
Mousetrap Jenga
Morty Abernathy
VP of Playtesting & Quality Assurance
Morty has personally playtested every edition Mousetrap Jenga has released since 1982.
Boneless Water
Russell Coleman
Director of Consumer Protection
Russell suffered from undiagnosed indigestion for 27 years before discovering Boneless Water on the recommendation of a chiropractor.
Rocks
Lawrence V. Stonebridge
Director, Vault Operations
Responsible for the Class III custody facility and its attestation ledger.
Squared Away Supply Co.
Colonel (Ret.) Tucker Lindgren
VP of Premium Experience
Colonel Lindgren flew 2,100 hours in the C-17 and 4,800 hours in business class.
Domaine Carter & Fils
Archibald Whitford
Chief Sommelier
Archibald joined Domaine Carter & Fils in 2014, following a distinguished career on the sommelier staff of several Bordeaux estates.
Meh.
Warren Ellsworth
VP of Affective Underdelivery
Leads the engineering team.
Super Engineered
Jim Redenbaugh
Co-Founder, SVP Utensil Strategy
Leads the Cloud+ subscription platform that powers every essential object in the catalog.
Personal Hygiene & Home Essentials
Health & Wellness Holdings
Radium Roy's
Dr. Thaddeus L. Krummholz
Director of Formulation
Dr.
Mostly Sterile
Roderick V. Ashbee-Chen
Head of Compliance
New hire.
Sovereign Wellness Co.
Obadiah Sterling Marsh
Keeper of the Restricted Archive
Curates the 4,000-volume Restricted Archive, relocated twice in the last decade 'for reasons that remain undisclosed.' The current location is known only to Mr.
Subscription Services
Professional Services & Emerging Ventures
Strategic Void Consulting
J. Rutherford Pennington
Chief Disruption Evangelist
Came to Strategic Void in 2014 by way of a career he characterizes as 'a series of strategic pivots, each more disruptive than the last, none of which resulted…
Stratify
Hank Leveraux
Senior Director, Yield Amplification
Former middle manager who ‘saw the architecture’ and never looked back.
Grass Fed WiFi
Porter Wheatgrass
Director of Frequency Husbandry
Porter rotates the co-op's frequency pastures on a strict lunar calendar and claims he can taste the difference between 2.4 GHz harvested in the morning versus…
Gristmill Partners
Harold "Hal" Duvane
Chief Operating Officer & Vice President, Workforce Engineering
Hal runs field operations.
Odd Occasions
Theodore Lundy
Head of Curation
Theodore personally selects every item in every gift box.
Pettential
Barrett Sinclair
Chief Optimization Officer
Barrett oversees all six performance divisions simultaneously from a standing desk in a windowless office.
Privatrix
Jim Pemberton, JD CIPP/E
VP, Strategic Privacy Posture
Jim heads the Strategic Privacy Posture practice, advising enterprise clients on the procurement, deployment, and quarterly review of Privatrix products.
Credentials
- —MBA, University of Chicago Booth School of Business
- —Certified Private Equity Analyst (lapsed, under review)