Growth Execution.
Built from the Inside.

Claymore Partners is an embedded growth operator for PE-backed and mid-market companies. We sit inside your leadership team, build revenue clarity, and own the execution.

Not consultants. Not an agency.
Something that actually works.

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why we exist

Growth can look healthy on the surface. CEOs and investors know it isn't.

The same challenges appear in every engagement:

Spend scaling without clear attribution to revenue or margin

Decisions stalling because no one trusts the data

Growth systems that feel fragile the week before a board meeting

Claymore exists to replace uncertainty with clarity and control.

the market

Where we sit

Most growth partners either think or do. Consultants deliver a strategy and walk away. Agencies execute without a foundation. Claymore does both — embedded, accountable, from day one.

Consultants

Charge a premium, deliver a report, then walk away. Strong on strategy — weak on follow-through.

Digital agencies

Jump straight to channels. Skip the foundation. Busy without being strategic.

Problems we solve

These are the problems that don't get fixed by hiring another agency, or running another workshop.

No single source of revenue truth

Data is fragmented across marketing, product, finance, and operations

Activity without accountability

Multiple vendors, dashboards, and initiatives — without clear accountability

Customer economics that don't hold up

LTV, CAC, and payback look right on paper. They don't survive contact with operational reality.

More spend, not more growth

Scaling budget before fixing the underlying system produces leakage, not return.

Leadership flying blind before the board meeting

Boards demand clarity on what to fix, what to scale, and why. Teams can't produce it fast enough.

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What we do

We’re not a typical growth partner.

Here is what makes us different

We start with the system

We start where others skip: with the commercial foundation. Before we touch a channel, we build the system.

We build to last

Every engagement is built to hold weight. We document, systematise, and hand off with precision.

We work alongside, not above

We work alongside your team, not above it. Embedded operators, not external advisors. We sit inside the decision loop.

We own the outcome

We own outcomes, not activity. No vanity metrics. No busy-work reports. Revenue and margin impact, measurable and board-ready.

We've done this before

We've sat in these seats before. Senior operator experience across enterprise, mid-market, and PE-backed businesses. Not advisory distance.

How we work

We don't hand over a roadmap and wish you luck. We embed, execute, and stay accountable for the outcome.

Revenue clarity sprint

We begin by rapidly establishing an operational baseline while moving the business forward.

Business model and economics
Customer journey and conversion flow
Growth channels and media efficiency
Data, measurement, and reporting cadence
Tech stack and decision architecture

This becomes a practical operating blueprint leadership can act on immediately.

Proof before opinion

We only recommend what we can measure and defend.

Financially grounded hypotheses
Clear success criteria
Explicit priorities and trade-offs

No slides without numbers. No numbers without owners.

Senior operators, embedded

Our team has sat in board meetings, owned P&Ls, and scaled growth under PE timelines.

We work alongside leadership — not from the sidelines.

Execution ownership

Claymore does not stop at strategy. We:

Implement the roadmap
Execute across growth, customer experience, data, and BI
Run weekly decision loops
Deliver board-ready monthly reporting

Strategy → Execution → Outcomes.
Owned by one team.

Who we work with

PE-backed and mid-market businesses.

$20M–$500M

Revenue

Mid-market companies where the pressure to perform is highest and the cost of uncertainty is real.

Where we operate

Day 1

Post-acquisition

The revenue you don’t capture in Year 1 can’t be recovered. The clock starts at close.

Cumulative Revenue by start date

3–5x

Pre-exit

Marketing-driven EBITDA improvement compounds at the multiple. The math is unambiguous.

Exit value • $100M revenue base

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Leadership

Lee McCabe

Partner, Strategy & PE Advisory

Lee McCabe is a private equity operating partner and growth leader with 25 years across big tech, marketplaces, and PE-backed portfolios.

He is a Partner at Claymore Partners, a value-creation firm built for PE-backed and founder-owned mid-market businesses that need a real commercial engine — revenue truth, attribution clarity, conversion performance, and execution ownership without the agency theatre.

Prior to Claymore, he served as Operating Partner at AEA Investors across a 45-company portfolio, and held GM-level roles at Alibaba, Facebook, and Expedia across North America and Asia Pacific. He started his career at eBay, where he played a foundational role in international growth.

“Strategy is just a hypothesis. It only becomes real when someone owns the outcome.”

Kingsley Taylor

Partner, Growth Operations

Kingsley Taylor is a growth operator and commercial leader with 20 years across blue-chip agencies, enterprise clients, and PE-backed businesses.

Prior to Claymore, he owned the regional P&L at Digitas, Organic, and Starcom, and ran the global Qualcomm business at Ogilvy — a $200M marketing operation across 11 markets. His client work spans some of the most commercially demanding brands in the world: PlayStation, T-Mobile, Sephora, Hulu, Samsung, and Wells Fargo.

He started his career in London before moving into US enterprise leadership. He is based in Los Angeles.

“Revenue clarity isn't a reporting problem. It's a leadership problem. Fix the lens, not the dashboard.”

perspectives

Our point of view

The gathering storm

Why private equity’s crisis is deeper than it looks, and what it will take to survive

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our work

Case studies

Flooring Business Case Study

Value Creation Through Marketing Transformation

Our work

Experience

These are the businesses our partners have worked inside, not advised from a distance.

Growth Execution. Built from the Inside.

Not consultants. Not an agency.Something that actually works.