Founder

The inspiration to launch Macoto Collective came to Colton through conversations with hundreds of entrepreneurs over two decades as a private equity investor, including as a co-founder and managing director of Mountaingate Capital. Colton has completed over 30 investments in entrepreneur-led businesses and has chaired the board of directors of four platform companies. Colton’s passion is to work hand-in-hand with management teams to envision and define strategy, maximize individual and team performance, and achieve extraordinary growth and value creation. Colton has partnered with entrepreneurs and management teams to deliver exits totaling over $3 billion in enterprise value. He makes his home in the Gallatin Valley of southwest Montana, which according to local history was known as “Many Come Together Country” before Lewis and Clark passed through the area in 1805. This is the inspiration for the brand and identity of Macoto Collective. Colton has never watched an episode of Yellowstone.

Managing Partner

Mike has over three decades of experience in digital, media, marketing, and professional services across all stages of company growth. He's worked with tech startups, independent private equity-backed firms, and global public companies – through a dozen acquisitions and successful exits worth more than $1 billion. Along the journey from five to 5,000+ people, Mike learned how to help entrepreneurs scale their organizations, build high-performing teams, implement structures and planning frameworks for growth, seamlessly integrate companies, and increase the value of their enterprises. Mike is based in Toronto, the fastest growing market for digital talent in North America. His work with Colton at Macoto Collective continues a partnership that has spanned across two platforms for over 12 years. Mike does watch Yellowstone and wishes there were more mountains and streams nearby.

Managing Partner

Nathaniel’s experience is in building and commercializing technology products, particularly data & analytics software. He has held roles including first business hire, commercial leader, and co-founder/CEO across multiple venture-backed startups, and has operating experience as early as pre-product (-1 to 0) and as late as public multinational. Nathaniel also worked as an investor at Founder Collective, a seed fund backing companies like Uber, Cruise, PillPack, and the Trade Desk. He spent 2016 to 2022 at Google, first leading a growth team focused on independent marketing services businesses, and then serving for four years in Google Labs (Area 120) as a Founder-in-Residence and venture GM. In addition to leading Macoto’s Incubation practice and technology, data, and growth work, Nathaniel serves in advisory roles across several software companies. He is a die-hard Bostonian who now lives in the Bay Area, where Yellowstone has never been discussed.

Executive-in-Residence

Stephanie has driven value to professional services companies for over 15 years, focusing on global management consulting and technology services companies. Her work has spanned the globe serving companies in the Fortune 500, Russell 2000, AmLaw 100, and others. She has twice earned an Inc. 5000 company status. Stephanie’s expertise regarding business development has assisted clients in achieving over $1 billion in revenue generation. Stephanie is also the fractional CEO of Red Ants Pants, a women’s empowerment brand veiled as a women’s workwear company. She serves as the board chair for Respire Haiti and is on the National Advisory Board for Montana State University’s Leadership Institute. She was selected as “20 Under 40” by the Bozeman Daily Chronicle’s Business Journal (2015) and as Montana State University’s Young Alumni of the Year (2016). She lives with her amazing husband and their three energetic kids in Bozeman, Montana. Stephanie watched almost one whole episode of Yellowstone but did not finish it.

Client Success Lead

Nicole has nearly fifteen years of experience in program and client management, partnering with clients to transform their businesses across marketing, media, digital, and technology. Graduating with a BS in Management from Georgia Institute of Technology with a dual focus in Psychology, Nicole utilizes her passion for relationship building and human-focused design to help train executives and their businesses toward focused growth. She has spent the majority of her career working with Fortune 500 companies to design and develop operational roadmaps resulting in programmatic scaling, improved team relationships, clear organizational structure, and increased workflow management. Nicole is currently pursuing her Executive MBA at The Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University and resides in Atlanta, GA, with her husband and two daughters. She has watched three seasons of Yellowstone but feels like it jumped the shark after season two.

Systems & Data

Jeff is a solution-oriented leader with a broad range of technical and business skills. He has over 30 years of experience across numerous industries and various roles including developer, engineering manager, software consultant, client service lead, project manager, and technology leader. His diverse experience allows him to communicate with varied audiences, understand the business challenge, and implement the optimal solution. A technologist at heart, Jeff understands and enjoys leveraging technology, but also recognizes that software-driven change is most successful when coupled with process and organizational changes, so he takes a big picture approach to his work. Jeff lives in Newton, MA with his wife and his two sons (when they are home from college). He enjoys playing trumpet and traveling but has yet to watch any episode of Yellowstone. 

Executive-in-Residence

Tricia has worked as Chief Financial Officer, Interim CFO, and advisor within founder-led, privately held, private equity backed, and publicly traded companies. She is a process-oriented, strategic financial leader who is also flexible in adapting to real-world business operations. She enjoys building finance/accounting/operations teams, creating and implementing core FinOps processes, and training business leaders to strengthen the sustainability of a business’s financial success.  Her M&A experience includes buy- and sell-side diligence, integration, and financial/operational carve-outs. Tricia has split time between her hometown of Chicago, snow-birding in Florida, and RVing in between for the past seven years. She did enjoy Season One of Yellowstone but gave up on all the drama at some point during Season Two.