Commercial diligence · Growth strategy · Product economics
Mitch brings over 15 years of consulting and operating experience to investors and executive teams evaluating opportunities, improving product economics, and executing growth plans.
Deep expertise in Bitcoin, fintech, payments, and lending.
Discuss an engagementFormer Bain Expert Associate Partner · Product GM · Strategy & Finance VP
Consulting and operating experience
Growth strategy
PE/VC diligence & digital assets
Product strategy
Strategy & finance
Product GM & strategic finance
Services
Investors & acquirers
Assess market attractiveness, customer demand, competitive position, and the assumptions behind the investment case.
Typical outputsCommercial assessment, key risks, management-case analysis, and investment committee support.
Portfolio companies & executive teams
Identify the customer, pricing, product, and operating changes with the greatest potential to improve business performance.
Typical outputsPrioritized opportunities, financial impact analysis, and a practical execution plan.
Founders & product leaders
Decide what to build, how it should make money, which partners to choose, and what it takes to bring it to market.
Typical outputsBusiness cases, product economics, partner assessments, and launch priorities.
Strategic finance connects the work: business cases, product and business-line P&Ls, forecasting, and operating plans.
Selected work
Selected contributions from Mitch’s consulting and operating roles.
Bain & Company
Advised investors on market growth, customer demand, competitive position, and commercial risk.
Assessed investment theses and management assumptions to inform investment decisions.
BlockFi · Acting GM, Retail Trading
Led pricing, product, customer, and marketing initiatives while responsible for the retail trading business.
These initiatives contributed to approximately 15× growth in monthly retail trading revenue.
Fold · GM, Credit & Loans
Led the zero-to-one launch of Fold’s credit card program with Stripe, including commercial negotiations.
Negotiated more than $115 million in improvements to program terms over five years.
Engagements
Expert calls, second opinions, and targeted support on a specific investment or operating question.
Diligence, growth strategy, pricing, product economics, or a new-product business case with a clear scope and deliverables.
Recurring strategic and operating support for investors, founders, and portfolio-company leaders.
Scope and involvement are tailored to the question, your team, and the timing.
About Mitch
Mitch has assessed businesses for investors and owned the products, P&Ls, and execution as an operating leader. He brings that perspective to every engagement at Mitch Port Advisory.
His foundation at The Cambridge Group, Bain, and Caesars spans customer analytics, growth strategy, diligence, and operating improvement across consumer, technology, industrial, and financial-services businesses.
MBA, Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management, with a merit-based Kellogg Scholarship. BSBA in Finance and a minor in Accounting, magna cum laude, from the Olin School of Business at Washington University in St. Louis.
View Mitch’s LinkedIn profilePublished research
Tokenization and alternative investmentsCo-authored with Bain & Company and J.P. Morgan.
GM, Credit & Loans · VP of Strategic Finance
Credit-card launch, FP&A, operating plans, board reporting, and product-line P&Ls.
Expert Associate Partner
Digital asset diligence, portfolio-company growth, and strategy for financial institutions.
Director of Strategy · VP, Strategy & Finance
Product and corporate strategy, P&L ownership, pricing, and launches across trading, credit cards, and lending.
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