The ronin network

A single engagement with ronin.ink brings exactly the right skills to the table.

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The ronin

Hands-on fractional leaders who drive strategy and execution from within. Each brings proven Industry Impact in product, marketing, brand, finance, operations, or sales—working as part of your team, not outside it.

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Strategic partners

Trusted firms that extend our reach and accelerate delivery. These pre-built teams are deeply aligned with ronin, ready to activate design, technology, or market execution at scale.

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Guest stars

Former C-suite leaders and category experts engaged selectively for their insight and perspective. They join the table when their experience can change the outcome.

The ronin

Lead ronin

Aric Marshall

Aric Marshall

Superpowers: Product Strategy, Roadmap, Market-fit, Execution

Industry Impact: Apple (Audio; Apple TV; Launch engineering and release prep, all products), Beats, MLB.com, Masterclass, Bunim-Murray Productions, Promise Storage, ABC News, Eight Inc., John Deere, Stephen Colbert, Light Labs, Spatial, Nike, Sound One, Jarhead (Feature Film), SoftBank, Nokia, Netflix, Hulu

Team ronin

Alec Marshall

Alec Marshall

Superpowers: Brand, Marketing, & Creative Strategy

Industry Impact: Apple (UI design), Apple (Brand and digital marketing), Adobe, Roku, Livongo (Teladoc), Dead & Company, MotoAmerica, dozens of early stage brands and stories.

Carsten Fitzner

Carsten Fitzner

Superpowers: BizDev Hunter (every market), Goods Production/Sourcing

Industry Impact: Johnson & Johnson, Abbot, Roche, Honeywell, Thule, Yeti, Oakley, Samsung, Amazon, Apple, Disney, Case Logic, GM, Leica, BD (Becton-Dickinson)

Jon Kaiser

Jon Kaiser

Superpowers: Media/Advertising/Marketing Strategy, Technology, Revenue

Industry Impact: T&T, PepsiCo, HP , McDonald’s, Microsoft, Nielsen, Oracle, Radiant Logic, VideoAmp

Jonathan Sasse

Jonathan Sasse

Superpowers: Software/Service Design, Architecture, Development

Industry Impact: Universal Music, Warner Bros. Music, SONY Music, SONY Electronics, Microsoft, Xbox, Verizon, AT&T, T-Mobile, Disney, ABC News, ESPN, Samsung, Tesla, Ford, Audi, TruGreen, SiriusXM, America’s Car-Mart, BARWIS, Comcast, First Orion, Acxiom, Amazon, Best Buy, Wal-Mart, Coca-Cola, Nike, Neustar, Baptist Health, Travel Nurses Across America, Nabholz Construction, LiveONE, Slacker Radio, The Weather Channel, Facebook

Mike Schrader

Mike Schrader

Superpowers: Sales Messaging, Execution, Leadership

Industry Impact: Starbucks, Quiksilver, Levi’s, Kendall Jackson, Fox Racing, LeapFrog, 511 Tactical, Nestle, Beats by Dr Dre, Mars, Stein Mart, Gymboree, Tillys, Buckle, Venus Swimwear, Farmers Brothers, Sempra Energy, Southern California Edison, Rally House, Pharmaca, Telebrands, Forever 21, Hugo Boss, Sheplers, PacSun, Carters, L’Oreal, Guess, Duluth Pack, among others

Mark Stott

Mark Stott

Superpowers: Power/Energy, Defense, Maritime Systems

Industry Impact: Protector Boats, Moose Boats, SAFE Boats, Teledyne FLIR, Cummins, Logan Clutch Corporation, Hale Products, Task Force Tips, Shoxs, Volvo Penta, Gibbs & Cox, Incat Crowther, Hamilton Jet, Raymarine, Furuno, BlacRac, Shockwave, Radiation Solutions Inc., Yamaha, Mercury Marine, Honda Racing Corporation, Driveline Service of Portland, TwinDisc, ServoGear, Nikola Motors, Hyundai, Suzuki, Honda, Yanmar, Northern Lights, Terra Tracker, WeatherPak, SAFESite, American Saferoom, Hexagon, Mythos AI

Together, the ronin have built and launched products used by hundreds of millions of people, guided brands through IPOs and acquisitions, and led transformations across technology, media, healthcare, and mobility.

Our shared experience connects strategy to execution—turning ideas into measurable growth.

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STRATEGIC PARTNERS

Aligned Industry Impact that turns strategy into results—and extends the reach of ronin.ink.

Our Strategic Partners turn strategy into momentum. Each is a proven specialist team—experts in design, communications, technology, or market execution—who work as a seamless extension of ronin and our clients. Together, we deliver not just leadership, but fully operational systems that move ideas from concept to market, faster and with greater precision.

Keep them for as long or brief as needed, or even work with us to hire them at the end. ronin.ink exists to create our own success, not inflate hiring margins. Billing is pass-through and hours- or project-based. And it all happens on-time and on-budget. Imagine.

Brooksource

Brooksource | Beyond the expected

Scalable teams of next generation talent for key projects & initiatives

Combined superpowers: "What to build, and the team to get it built.”
Our ronin are the experts you need in the room when you need them, guiding your strategy for expansive growth. Brooksource is the lever to pull if you also need the vetted resource/technical team to execute that work fast. Growing companies shouldn’t be this easy. Usually, it isn’t.

Apiary Digital

Apiary Digital | Not an agency. A growth marketing collective built for the modern era.

Growth marketing strategy and execution via hive-based team structures

Combined superpowers: “A hive of growth experts powering ronin.ink’s boldest growth strategies.”
Together, ronin.ink and Apiary Digital form a partnership that pairs ronin’s growth leadership and cross-disciplinary execution with Apiary’s collective of marketing experts.

The result: a better-than-agency model that scales on demand, delivers measurable performance, and embeds intelligence across every stage of the customer journey. Whether launching a new venture, amplifying product adoption, or building market awareness, this partnership brings the clarity of strategy and the hive-driven agility to get it done, on time, on budget, and built to grow.

Silicon Drive

Silicon Drive | Bold vision. Sharp strategy. Unmatched impact.

Marketing strategy, creative services

Combined superpowers: “What to do, and how to bring it to the world.”
As an active contributor to many ronin.ink projects past and present, Alec Marshall, the CEO and Founder of Silicon Drive, is already deeply integrated into ronin.ink projects, processes, and performance. Together the companies bring the company-wide strategy and leadership of ronin.ink with the ability of a fractional CMO that comes with an already working design and marketing engine. The combined strength of these teams is hard to match, whether they come in whole to accelerate new marketing initiatives or side-by-side with existing teams to make marketing endeavors better, faster, and with more powerful results.

Telemetry Agency

Telemetry Agency | Stories that transform industries

Strategic market analysis, communications, content services

Combined superpowers: “Identify the market direction, make the offering stand out, and connect with audiences.”

Telemetry is a unique approach to communication strategy, acting as a single agency that performs (and publishes, if desired) top-notch market state and trend analysis, provides comms strategy to act on those market conditions, and generates best-in-class articles and content to engage audiences in a relevant manner.

Combined with ronin strategic leadership in automotive, mobility, and related technology markets, companies can have the complete answer of knowing the market direction, establishing the correct product-market fit as well as messaging, and getting the word out there in the strongest, clearest possible way.

Forward Global Partners

Forward Global Partners | From concept to creation—globally, seamlessly.

Design and manufacturing

Combined superpowers: "Ship it – at scale."
ronin.ink has worked with FGP almost since our inception, planning soft goods and accessory design, approach, and creation as well as hard and consumer goods sourcing, manufacturing, packaging, and distribution.

With a companies and clients roster that reads like a list of all things you’ve ever wanted to make or buy, there almost isn’t a line or manufacturer in which they aren’t comfortable and/or connected.

Together ronin.ink and Forward Global Partners can help put the scale in your new, expansive growth, or maybe just fix the issues that are keeping you from it.

Three Bell Capital

Three Bell Capital | Financial strategy for growth, liquidity, and legacy.

Financial growth partnership

Combined superpowers: "As ronin.ink shows you how to make a wildly successful company, make sure all that money goes to the right places.”

Three Bell is ready and available to advise ronin.ink clients from the day they first look at founding (or rebuilding) a company to the highest end of their hockey stick. That knowledge and advice can benefit the founders, investors, shareholders, employees, and the company entity itself.

Guest Stars

Rare Industry Impact.
Quietly transformative.

Our Guest Stars are former C-suite leaders and category specialists who’ve built global brands, scaled complex organizations, and led industries through transformation. They’re invited to join specific engagements where their experience can directly shape the outcome—whether that means guiding product vision, sharpening market strategy, or advising through moments of change or transaction.

Each brings perspective earned from decades of leadership at the highest levels. They don’t appear in every project, but when they do, their presence is unmistakable. These are the voices behind some of the world’s most respected companies, engaged not for visibility, but for impact.

Industries we've helped

Deep Industry Impact across sectors that matter

Agriculture Tech

AI, Machine Learning

Automotive

Consumer Electronics

CPG

Defense & Military

Emergency Services

E-commerce

Education Technology

Financial Services

Food & Beverage

Healthcare & Healthtech

Manufacturing

Marine Technology

Media & Entertainment

Non-Profit

Power, Energy & Utilities

Professional Services

Real Estate & Construction

Retail

Software as a Service

Sports & Fitness

Travel & Hospitality

Virtual, Augmented & Extended Reality

Wearables and Sensing

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