Guiding Your NorthStar Business Transformation

Leadership Team

What We Do

Speed to Expertise is How Companies will Succeed in the Next Decade

Whether it’s project work, fractional leadership to manage teams, advisory services, or participating in Flash Teams, RaineStar can provide the expertise needed to boost companies to the newly evolved best practices.

Expertise

Leadership Philosophy

Our principals bring decades of combined experience in AI, digital transformation, and strategic consulting. We’re hands-on leaders who work alongside your team to ensure successful outcomes and sustainable capability building.

Susan Kelly

About Susan Kelly, Managing Partner, RaineStar

Susan has over 25 years of experience working with owner-managed businesses, VC/PE-backed firms, and global corporations ranging from <$5M to > $600M. Susan brings proven abilities to manage people, projects, and technology, from strategic growth to implementations that increase valuations.

As a leader in the digital frontier, where strategy and tactics meet technology and analytics, she has helped organizations fast-track change, scale revenue generation functions, and automate operational platforms. Experienced in utilizing the latest tech stacks and digital technologies, she targets ideal customers, grows pipelines, commercializes product/service offerings, and measures customer experience to drive both top and bottom lines to higher levels.

She is also the founder of Raine Media, a marketing research and consulting services firm that develops sales and marketing strategies and technology infrastructure to help clients better reach their customers, lower their total cost of ownership for marketing, and develop growth paths for accelerated valuation.

Expertise

Executive Sales and Marketing Experience

  • SVP/CMO Marketing, New Horizons (Education/Technology)
  • CMO, CompTIA (Cybersecurity)
  • CMO/EVP Apollidon Learning (Education)
  • CMO PSCU (Financial Services)
  • VP Global Alliances, Xerox (Business Services)
  • VP Enterprise Communications and Marketing Services, Xerox (Business Services)
  • CEO K/P Corporation (Digital Technologies)
  • SVP Sales, Marketing and Product Development, R. R. Donnelley (Computer Services)
  • Founder and Managing Partner, Raine Media Consulting
  • Head of Pitney Bowes, Canadian Division
Expertise

Industry Expertise

Our RaineStar consultants have extensive strategy, operational, and financial expertise in a variety of industries.

Clients

Contracted Clients Served

  • Nutritional Frontiers (Healthcare)
  • Hottinger, Bruel & Kjar (HBK) (Automotive, Aerospace & Defense)
  • Concord Servicing (Financial Services)
  • Northeastern University (Education)
  • Corsica Technologies (Cybersecurity, Technology)
  • Liquid Instruments (SaaS, Test & Measurement)
  • National Society of Learning and Success (Education)
  • New Horizons Worldwide, LLC. (Education/Technology)
Rated 5 out of 5
"The experience has been great, and Susan has felt truly like part of our team working with our Leadership team and our Board. I appreciate the work it took to jump in as CMO and totally restructure and stabilize our Marketing team while managing the day-to-day requirements. Her relentless focus on demand generation and implementing lead-gen processes accelerated the company’s top-line growth. It’s been a valuable relationship, and we continue to engage her advisory services."
Brian Harmison
CEO, Corsica Technologies
Rated 5 out of 5
"We engaged Susan because of her expertise with top-tier education institutions and her ability to quickly assess challenging situations. In three months, she produced quality deliverables that helped accelerate an execution path to incorporate student experience best practices, capture quick wins, and identify growth options to scale the college."
Dr. Radhika Seshan
Dean, College of Professional Studies, Northeastern University
Expertise

RaineStar Team Expertise

Advanced degrees in Business, Engineering, and Computer Science

Former executives from Fortune 1000 companies

Industry certifications and academic affiliations

20+ years of average experience in AI and digital transformation

Published researchers and thought leaders

Board

Advisory Services

  • Industry experts across key market sectors
  • Academic researchers and AI ethics specialists
  • Technology leaders and innovators
  • Former C-suite executives with transformation experience