Executive Advisement

Gerry Starsia serves as a trusted partner for leaders seeking valuable feedback and guidance. With a wealth of experience and a goals-oriented perspective, Gerry adeptly serves as a sounding board for executives, helping them refine their strategic thinking and strengthen their leadership competencies. His approach emphasizes agility and resilience, ensuring that leaders are equipped to navigate complex challenges and seize opportunities with confidence.

Advisement: I am an experienced and unbiased sounding board for executives and leaders providing valuable feedback in the areas of strategic thinking, interpersonal skill-building, and strengthening leadership competencies, agility, and resilience.

Strategy development: My spirited support for leaders, planners, and strategists in their approach to strategy development and implementation helps them embrace diverse perspectives, think critically, consider prudent risks, and seize game-changing opportunities, while managing expectations, all while developing motivation and building alignment on their teams and within their organizations.

Boards and Clients

Corporate

  • Aerial Resupply Coffee Company. Advisory Board

  • inXathlete. Executive Advisor

  • Mediatech, Inc. Executive Advisor

  • Pickle, Executive Advisor

  • Relish Inc. Executive Advisor

  • Springbok Inc. Advisory Board

  • Spire Collective. Executive Advisor

  • UCROO, Pty., Ltd. Member, Advisory Board

Higher Education & Non-Profit

  • Piedmont Family YMCA
    Member, Board of Directors
    Member, Finance Committee

  • Alumni Board of Managers at the UVA Fund at Alumni Hall
    Member, Investment Committee

  • Building Goodness Foundation
    Member, Executive and Expansion Committees

  • Curry School of Education Foundation
    Member, Executive Director

  • Darden Graduate School of Business Foundation
    Member, Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer

  • Foundation for the Advancement of Strings Education
    Advisor and Consultant

  • McIntire School of Commerce Foundation at the University of Virginia
    Member, Executive Director, and Executive, Audit, and Investment Committees

  • School of Engineering and Applied Sciences Foundation at the University of Virginia
    Member, Finance Committee

Testimonials

“Gerry's expertise in strategy and adaptability consistently keeps our executive team at Pickle focused and successful, ensuring we stay on track even in challenging times. He has been instrumental in driving our growth and success - readily available, easy to contact, and straight to the core of whatever issue is at hand. I'd recommend him as an advisor to any early stage startup founder.”

- Jonathon Lee, Co-founder of Pickle