"Working with Robbie is like having your own personal strategic guru by your side. She delivers the convergence of superior analytical thinking with market understanding in such an keen and insightful way, you leave each meeting with energy and enthusiasm for what needs to happen next."

Amy Love - Global Vice President, Marketing and Business Development (now VP Global Brand and Communications, NetApp)
PicScout

"I initially brought Robbie in for a 6 week project relating to new customer acquisition, and asked her to continue on, for what ended up being close to 2 years. Robbie impressed me with her ability to plow through large amounts of work quickly, thoughtfully and with integrity. Robbie is generally optimistic, candid and diplomatic, qualities that proved useful here as she established new partnerships for Netflix."

Jessie Teitz Becker - VP, Marketing
Netflix

"Robbie has been tremendously valuable as we relaunch our 20 year old public company with a new business model. She has a unique ability to corral lots of competing ideas and objectives, put structure around them and guide the team to focus on getting the results we really need. Her strategic discipline and emphasis on results has helped us make the big media splash we wanted, while also ensuring that we simultaneously put in place a marketing pipeline that will help generate revenue for the long term. I am thankful to have her as an advisor."

Richard Lang - CEO
Democrasoft

"Robbie has been invaluable in our efforts to hone and target our marketing message as we expand from our core strength in learning services to include technology solutions. Robbie asks the questions we haven’t always considered, and helps us get to the core message and value proposition quickly and elegantly. I consider her an indispensible advisor who is hugely valuable to our marketing efforts"

Sam Herring - Founder and Executive Vice President, Consulting and Market Development
Intrepid Learning Solutions

"Certainly, Peninsula Strategies knows the Web 2.0 space very well. Perhaps more importantly, they know how to quickly identify the key issues and opportunities, get the right information and synthesize it into a compelling case. And they are fun to work with."

John Kremer - VP, Yahoo! Mail
Yahoo

"Robbie's analysis of our business and customer base was crisp and incisive. She brought together a wide variety of data we'd collected and was able to provide a unique, powerful perspective on important segments we've overlooked. This analysis and her recommendations on how to capitalize on specific strengths in our market have helped us map out a winning strategy for deeper product penetration and higher customer satisfaction."

Trish McGonigle - Senior Director
Oracle

"Robbie is one of the best marketing strategists I've ever worked with."

Tanya Roberts - VP, Marketing
PayCycle

"Robbie hit the ground running and began delivering real value almost immediately. She accomplished more in a few hours than most people accomplish in a week."

Amy Millard - SVP, Marketing
MarketTools, Inc (the makers of Zoomerang)

"We engaged Peninsula Strategies to conduct market validation when we were launched Egnyte. Robbie created and managed the customer validation process and helped define the positioning for Egnyte's launch. Robbie brings a range of marketing skills from big and small companies alike which we found invaluable at a startup."

Rajesh Ram - Vice President, Product Management
Egnyte

"Robbie and her colleagues did a great job in conducting a thorough assessment of the performance bicycle business and offering specific tactics to grow the industry. They were able to balance their objectiveness as outsiders with an in-depth understanding of how our business works. Everyone that I spoke to who attended the presentation of their findings said the study is direct, accurate, clear and appropriate. I continue to be impressed by their passion, hard work and commitment to excellence, and hope to have an opportunity to work with them again."

Bob Margevicius - EVP
Specialized Bicycle Components

"Robbie has served as a key advisor on our team since the early days of our company. She helped us to strengthen our business model as we prepared to raise our first outside round of financing. With Peninsula Strategies, I felt we got many times the value of what we paid."

Wenceslao Casares - Co-CEO
Bling Nation

"Thank you for all your good work and the speed with which you got it done. We were very happy with the research and analysis and plan to use it heavily in our strategic planning work"

Roy Gross - President, Marketing and Communications Solutions
Merrill Corporation

"Our industry association retained Peninsula Strategies to identify growth opportunities in the performance bicycle industry, and boy did they deliver. Their lively and engaging talk was the main attraction of our annual industry conference, drawing over 130 senior executives. The insights raised in their report have helped us to rethink how we do business. On behalf of the BPSA, I am grateful for their thorough and comprehensive research, relevant presentation, and the valuable discussions they inspired. All of this was accomplished despite a short timeline, a large group of opinionated stakeholders and changing objectives. Robbie & Nicole are a pleasure to work with."

John Nedeau - VP, Sales
SRAM

"When Robbie joined our team she was tasked with the impossible: structuring and invigorating a fledgling marketing division, advising the CEO on marketing and corporate strategy and then selling it to the board, and personally executing on each of the core tactical initiatives identified in her marketing plan. In only three months, Robbie not only delivered flawlessly on each dimension, but did so with a streamlined calm that inspired all those that worked with her. Robbie’s influence on Speck Design is invaluable, and we feel very lucky to have found her."

Elisa Jagerson - CEO
Speck Design

"Robbie is fast, very smart, and isn't afraid to tell you when you’re off the mark. Peninsula Strategies is a terrific resource when you need a combination of strategic thinking and confident execution. Their expertise with SaaS and other subscription-based business models is incredibly valuable and let them get up to speed quickly and begin adding value right away."

Jim Howard - CEO
CrownPeak, Inc

"I asked Robbie to work with me on a project at Yahoo! for two reasons--the project was consumer-oriented and it was a strategic assignment. Robbie is extremely strategic and quick to see possibilities where others don't. She's also easy to work with--open, friendly and very smart. She was an excellent advisor and sounding board for me and for the client team."

Niti Agrawal - Principal
Stage 4 Solutions

"Peninsula Strategies was instrumental in developing Plus 3 Network marketing and communications platforms. Robbie corralled our long-range vision and brought creative objectivity to the process. We would not have come so far so fast without Peninsula Strategies on our team."

Rick Sutton & Joe Fabris - Co-Founders
Plus 3 Network

"Robbie is truly a person who can see the forest and not just the trees, and, more importantly, can convey her vision to large groups of people with disparate priorities and interests and help them reach agreement on next steps. I always welcome the opportunity to work with her again."

Sanjay Sarathy - Senior Director (now CMO, Sumo Logic)
Sun Microsystems

"We brought Robbie in to lead the online portion of an overall strategy for a large multi-channel retailer. We got more than we expected with Robbie, and we made better decisions with Robbie in the room. I would recommend her to anyone who wants to jump start a stagnating business. Her clear thinking and passion for building businesses make her a real asset to any leadership team."

Peter Hsia - Principal
Kurt Salmon Associates

"As the superintendent and the CEO of Menlo Park City School District, I brought in Peninsula Strategies to guide our board of directors in developing core values for our district. Robbie showed a real commitment to doing the best for our district, and was incredibly responsive to our needs. Her ability to bring together so many disparate groups, and build buy-in is truly impressive. I have worked with many consultants in public and private markets, and Robbie is extraordinarily talented—her intellect, diplomacy and ability to think both strategically and tactically gave us what we needed to help our highly dynamic organization define what makes us unique, which will set the tone and strategic planning for the next decade. I highly recommend Robbie for helping your company focus on what's important."

Dr. Maurice Ghysels - Superintendent
Menlo Park City School District

"Robbie’s analysis and insights will directly impact our ability to win in a highly competitive marketplace."

Bryan Rodrigues - Director, Brand Management
Riverdeep

"We used Peninsula Strategies to help us define our guiding principles and strategic plan. Robbie raised us above the details, and helped us identify the best options to achieve our ambitious goals. She took the time to listen to each of the partners, and then took our team through a process toward melding our many ideas into a solid, actionable plan. Robbie is a tremendous strategic thinker, and really helped us focus on some key decisions that will be instrumental in taking our business to the next level. Her insights are worth every penny"

Heather Corcoran - Partner
Next Step Partners

"Robbie is an unusually clear and insightful thinker. Perhaps even more rare is her ability to communicate in such a way as to immediately spark the “aha moment.” I have enjoyed many “aha moments” in my work with Robbie. She’s a delight to work with – an amazing asset to any organization I can think of."

Camille Landau - CEO
ReferQuest

"Thanks again for putting together such a wonderful program yesterday. I spoke to so many alums who thought it was a knockout panel, and I quite agree. We are lucky to have you!"

Raphe Beck - Director of Alumni Relations
Stanford Graduate School of Business

"Peninsula Strategies’ thought leadership in subscription and membership-based business models really helped us plan for the future of our mobile application. Robbie is more than just a great idea person; she rolled up her sleeves and applied her expertise on subscription models to our specific business case and provided tremendous value."

Alex Kroogman - CEO
NewspaperDirect

"Robbie partnered with our marketing team to evaluate product pricing and packaging strategies. She was thoughtful, thorough and fast in her research and recommendations and she provided really valuable perspective and input into critical marketing decisions for us."

Tim Maly - SVP, Business Operations and Finance
Survey Monkey