About Growth Pilot Advisor

Experience. Enhanced by AI.

We are an experienced growth consulting team for consumer-product companies. We look across products, customers, competitors, and sales channels, focus management on what matters, and help turn the strongest recommendations into action.

Our Story

Growth Pilot Advisor was built around a simple need: consumer-product leaders need experienced people looking across the business regularly, finding what deserves attention, and explaining it clearly.

Our team combines hands-on operating experience with technology that helps us review more products, customer comments, competitors, and sales channels. We then use business judgment to separate important findings from noise.

The Complimentary Executive Growth Brief shows this approach before any paid engagement. Using public information, we identify some of the problems and opportunities we can already see, show the evidence, and explain what we recommend doing next.

If the report resonates, we build an engagement around implementation. If it doesn't, you've lost nothing — and gained an external perspective on your business.

What We Stand For

The principles that define our work

Experienced consultants, supported by technology

Clients hire Growth Pilot Advisor for business judgment, experience, and follow-through. Technology helps us examine more of the business more often; it is not the service we sell.

Recommendations that explain what happens next

We explain what should change, what Growth Pilot Advisor can prepare, what management or a specialist must do, what to test, and how to decide what follows.

Profitability Matters

Growth that destroys margin isn't growth — it's a treadmill. We prioritize profitable, sustainable expansion over vanity revenue metrics.

Earn Trust Through Work

The best way to prove we can help is to help. That's why our Executive Growth Brief comes first — before contracts, before retainers, before commitments.

Leadership

Meet the Growth Pilot Advisor team

Experienced business leaders who understand how consumer brands grow, operate, and expand.

Manny Armesto

Co-Founder, Growth Pilot Advisor

Manny Armesto is a business development and growth executive with decades of experience spanning mergers and acquisitions, manufacturing, distribution, international expansion, and market development. As Vice President and Co-Founder of Praetorian Group, he spent more than 20 years in the franchise M&A industry, working across business valuations, acquisition financing, marketing, negotiations, and deal management through closing. He later served as Director of Business Development for OMNI Alliance, where he helped consumer brands establish manufacturing relationships in India, negotiated pricing and distribution, connected brands with manufacturing partners, and helped international companies bring their products into the U.S. market. As Co-Founder of Growth Pilot Advisor, Manny focuses on identifying practical growth opportunities and helping turn strategic recommendations into action.

Mark Weiner

Mark Weiner is a proven business leader with decades of experience building the infrastructure that enables companies to scale rapidly. A veteran of the toy and consumer products industries, he has played a pivotal role in transforming innovative concepts into globally recognized brands. His expertise in operations, growth strategy, and market expansion has helped propel companies such as StreetSurfing and Stomp Rocket to exceptional success, making him a trusted advisor for brands poised for accelerated growth.

Jasun Weiner

Jasun Weiner is an accomplished executive with extensive experience leading high-growth consumer brands. As President of PopSockets during its early growth phase, he helped scale the company into a $20 million business and contributed to its recognition as the #2 fastest-growing company on the Inc. 5000 list. Jasun leverages his expertise in global distribution, strategic partnerships, and international growth to help consumer brands successfully expand into new markets, build scalable sales channels, and accelerate long-term growth across Europe and beyond.

Dawne Yusi

Dawne Yusi is an innovative product developer and branding executive with a unique background spanning a variety of consumer goods and family-focused brands. She specializes in identifying emerging opportunities, developing compelling brand strategies, and creating fresh approaches to consumer engagement. With extensive experience growing businesses across domestic and international markets, Dawne brings a creative, results-driven perspective to driving growth.

See how we think about growth

The best way to understand Growth Pilot Advisor is to see our work. We will use public information to show you some of the problems, improvements, and growth opportunities we can already see.

Request Your Complimentary Executive Growth Brief