The Experience to Create and Add Shareholder Value for Young and Growing Tech Companies...

C3 Strategic, LLC was founded in 2005 to provide traditional and performance-based management consulting and venture services to early-stage technology companies.

These start-ups and smaller technology companies need special services not provided by the traditional consulting and investment banking firms. Often, senior management and founders are focused on their technologies or day-to-day operations and development, they seek funding and assistance to grow and development the business.

C3 fills this gap in services, working in creative ways to help small technology companies realize their growth and value potential. C3 is a New York. State Limited Liability Company, operating with senior advisors and management specialists in offices around the United States.

PARTNERS

Stephen J. Suhowatsky
Steve is a seasoned executive with Fortune 500 and mid-market company management experience, with expertise in new business creation, mergers & acquisitions (on all sides of the table), as well as funding and finance. He is also Entrepreneur in Residence at the Syracuse Technology Garden, helping start-up and early stage technology companies in the Greater Syracuse area. He is Chair of the Seed Capital Fund of CNY, LLC -- an angel investor group in the region -- and has been a member of many charitable and corporate boards, including: Excellus, Key Bank, AGC of America,  Community Health Foundation, and Empire Health Resources.

With an MBA from the Wharton School of Business  at the University of Pennsylvania, Steve recently served as President and CEO of Panthus Corporation a $150 million mini-conglomerate company with major business holdings in construction equipment (Caterpillar), computer leasing and financing, industrial supplies and home healthcare services. He helped guide the company when it was public company (then known as Syracuse Supply Company) as it divested itself from holdings in shrinking markets (industrial supplies) and invested in new growth areas (home health services and computer leasing).

J. Sean Branagan 
Sean is a recognized expert in interactive marketing and has made a career of developing innovative marketing and interactive marketing plans for technology and business-to-business companies. He is founder and president of Communigration, Inc., a technology marketing firm, with technology business clients across the US and UK. He is also Entrepreneur in Residence at the Syracuse Technology Garden, helping start-up and early stage technology companies in the Greater Syracuse area.

A graduate of the Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University, much of Sean's career experience has been in marketing and communications with firms selling technical products and services. Most recently, he has served as Senior Director of Marketing for a $125 million national IT and Internet Services Company headquartered in Boston's Route 128 technology sector.

SENIOR ADVISORS

Scott Matukas - Management Development and Funding Strategies
Jeff Phelps - Systems Development, Process and Operations
Maureen Rogers - Product Marketing and Market Research
John Whiteside - Online Business Models and Marketing
Shari Lamkin-Treichler - Strategic Planning, Market Research and Training