Translating Vision to Results

Starting Gate Global is a professional services firm that provides experienced business development resources to help our valued clients plan, launch and implement new outreach initiatives.   

We offer our expertise, our energy, our enthusiasm and our extraordinary relationship development skills to expand the capacity and capabilties of our selected clients from around the world as they grow their business in the Greater Washington and Mid-Atlantic markets, and beyond.

Starting Gate specializes in working with companies and organizations who are ready to grow in new markets, and who require an experienced, professional and dedicated team to create and manage strategic relationships and outreach efforts in their target markets. Our expertise includes work with US companies seeking growth overseas, international firms seeking to enter the US market, and domestic firms developing new market segments in the US.

Starting Gate carefully selects our clients based on our ability to understand, embrace and passionately believe in their unique vision of success.  We work with clients who are ready to launch new efforts, who have clearly defined goals and timelines for their initiatives, and who value the power of “fresh  horses” to undertake new projects.   Our whole-hearted commitment to each client enables the Starting Gate team to become a seamless extension of the client’s management team. To this end, we offer our resources to realize those new projects critical to our clients' growth, without over-extending the management team's focus on essential operations.

The Starting Gate team offers more than 25 years of experience with planning, launching and implementing new market entry programs for a broad range of companies and organizations.  Our team has worked in industries including: education, banking, IT, professional services, state government, economic development, and trade promotion.  Our international experience includes work throughout the US, UK, Egypt, Canada, India, Australia, China and Latin America.