Meet Courtney

Courtney spent the first 10 years of her career in various finance roles, including training through the Financial Management Program at General Electric before pivoting to sales operations and planning at HubSpot for 4 years. At HubSpot, Courtney grew the Sales Planning and Incentives team from 2 to 12, focusing on designing, analyzing, and planning for various strategic initiatives for the HubSpot sales team. Winning 2 President’s Club awards and promoted 2 times in under 3 years, Courtney widely became known as the expert in the area of sales, financial, operational and strategic planning.

Courtney’s passion for small businesses and startups led her to launch 2dogs consulting in partnership with her husband, Jake. On the side, Courtney and Jake have built 4 businesses to-date and continue to grow their portfolio. Courtney and Jake know what it takes to scale businesses, and their backgrounds in corporate finance have been critical to their success. Courtney knows how to financially plan, budget, forecast - and most importantly, how to take action within a business to achieve growth.

Meet Jake

Jake’s professional journey started nearly 15 years ago in General Electric’s financial and leadership development programs. Jake shifted to FP&A and decision support at Boston Consulting Group (BCG), supporting several global businesses over his 7 year tenure. He quickly became a subject matter expert for new/alternative capabilities in the firm and a mentor in the firm’s Finance community. Jake then became Finance hire #2 as Director of FP&A for unicorn HealthTech startup, Reify Health. In this capacity, Jake established an enterprise-wide planning and budgeting process, participated in series C + D fundraising, drove board meeting prep and investor reporting/relations, built and owned cash flow modeling, and led Commercial Finance support.

In 2022, Jake invested in and currently operates a franchise business called Smash My Trash, providing the opportunity to hone general management skills and diversify his family’s investment portfolio.