Forth scales companies.

Forth is a collective dedicated to maximizing the growth potential of companies. A team that understands how companies scale. A team who knows how this can transform a company from ordinary to extraordinary.

Strategy. Creativity. Capital.

Forth provides strategy, marketing, organization, and operations consulting directly to brands and operates as an operating sponsor in collaboration with private equity and other capital partners.

Your biz is our biz.

FORTH treats your business as if it were our own. We work directly with the C-suite, investors, and financial sponsors to understand why a business exists, how it works, and how the strategy and operations align against the ultimate goals. Whether those goals are better day-to-day performance, refreshing or launching a brand, or navigating a fundraise or acquisition, Forth integrates into the team. We provide actionable, industry-tested solutions from decades of driving brands that outperform the competition and form strong relationships with capital partners who share our ideals.

Current & Previous Clients

Sweetgreen

SeoulSpice

Believer Meats

iSquared Capital

Bain Capital

Spotter

Masterclass

Why Now

Impossible Foods

Vertage

A collective like no other.

FORTH is a collective of public company C-level executives, strategists, marketers, creatives, financiers, and innovators dedicated to maximizing the growth potential of companies. A team we wished we could’ve partnered with when we were executives. But it didn’t exist. So we left the corporate world to create it.

  • Mark Crumpacker

    Co-Founder and Partner

    Chief Marketing Officer, Chief Development Officer, and Chief Strategy Officer at Chipotle Mexican Grill from 2008 to 2018. Oversaw marketing, culinary, real estate, design and construction of more than 1,100 stores. Investor and interim CMO at Impossible Foods and MasterClass. Former agency CEO. Investor and board member at several consumer and technology companies.

  • Jesse Coulter

    Co-Founder and Partner

    Former Chief Creative Officer & VP of Brand Marketing and Creative at Samsung from 2015 to 2021. Co-Chief Creative Officer at Creative Artists Agency (CAA) from 2006 to 2015. Former Head of Creative at Facebook and agency executive at Wieden & Kennedy and Droga5.

  • Eric Chappell

    Co-Founder and Partner

    Finance-focused consumer technology expert, with a specific focus in food and agricutlure systems. Operating partner at ThenWhat. Former finance analyst at Eat Just. Head of Finance, then Head of Innovation Strategy at Zume, a developer of mobile dark kitchens. An investor and advisor across multiple food and tech startups. MBA and Masters of Environmental Management, Duke University.