Karen Klaphake's Contact Details

Karen Klaphake's Company Details

Sage Partners

Wellesley Hills, MA, US • 20 - 49 Employees
Management Consulting

Sage is your Growth PartnerWe work with founders, executives, senior teams, and boards of directors to tackle critical growth challenges and drive value creation – at all stages of a company's lifecycle. Sage partners are executives, board members, entrepreneurs, advisors, and business operators. We have been there and seen - and overcome – the same challenges our clients face. Sage Partners pursues promising firms for whom we can add tangible enterprise value. We serve young companies seeking to grow beyond the startup phase and established companies needing to accelerate their rate of growth.Our business model for working with young companies, our Venture Acceleration practice, is structured around aligning our interests with those of our clients which means being mindful of expenses. Our up-front fees are small. Instead we base our work on a carried interest, often in some form of deferred/performance compensation and/or equity position. Thus we win when and as our clients win. Our interests are aligned.Our focus for established companies is often at the intersection of strategy and governance, 'when strategy meets governance.' Our role is to assist our clients as they seek to ratchet up their rates of growth or to sustain their momentum. Our goal: to achieve value-creating growth, the only kind that counts. We work shoulder-to-shoulder with entrepreneur/founders, executives, and Directors to create valuable growth throughout the life cycle of the organization. Sage is efficient and effective: we bring the right expertise at the right time, tapping into deep know-how and networks. Sage brings a broad and deep network of other professionals with special subject matter and functional expertise. This network helps us to bridge the gap between ideas and action.Growth and experience matter. Together they create value. How can we help you?