Top Gun

Suzanne Hamlin, principal of Transformative Knowledge Group, is a business strategy and marketing consultant with a special interest in business transition and transformation. She has been a member of the Maine Technology Institute’s SBIR/STTR Technical Assistance Program team since 2004 and has served as an SBIR grant application reviewer for both the NSF and the USDA. She has extensive experience leading teams and companies through organizational change, planning for new product commercialization, and applying new and emerging technologies for revenue growth and streamlining of work processes.

Suzanne has 20 years operating experience in both large and small organizations in a variety of functional roles including marketing, product management, business process redesign, and integrating Internet and E-Commerce technologies. Her direct industry experience includes retail, direct marketing, medical products, manufacturing, banking, and insurance, as well as a broad range of non-profits, and she has consulted heavily in all seven of Maine’s target technology sectors. She has served on boards of a number of both high tech and community service organizations. She holds a BSE in Computer Science from Princeton University, with honors, and an MBA from Harvard Business School.